ASSEMBLE
ASSEMBLE is an international cultural project exploring the climate emergency at the intersection of involuntary migration, displacement, conflict and ecological decline.
Displacement arises from interconnected social and environmental crises, including Russia’s war in Ukraine, Cyprus’ 1974 conflict, and global climate and conflict‑driven upheavals across Africa, Southwest Asia, South America and Asia, causing ongoing human and environmental losses on a vast scale today.
The programme will host three Fellowships for Artists, Curators and cultural practitioners with lived experience of involuntary migration or displacement based in Cyprus, Spain and Ukraine, seeking to (re)build their curatorial practice and networks across borders.
Over 12-months, each Fellow will produce a new curatorial project responding to climate emergency with the option to consider how it intersects with conflict, displacement and ecological decline.
Together, we will create vibrant spaces for curiosity, collaboration and critical thought. While short-term initiatives and emergency responses are important, ASSEMBLE asks what is required long-term for Artists, Curators and cultural practitioners with lived experience of involuntary migration or displacement.
The programme embeds a shared vision around cultural rights, mobility-justice and freedom of expression.
ASSEMBLE brings together a dynamic partnership committed to fair and equitable rights for artists impacted by displacement.
Funded by the European Union, ASSEMBLE is a dynamic partnership between D6:EU (CY), Congress of Cultural Activists (UA), Moving Artists (ES), the international mobility network On the Move, with associated partners Larnaka 2030 (CY), D6: Culture in Transit (UK) and Artist At Risk Connection (FR).