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5,083 boats: a dead reckoning

A new installation at the Tate Gallery in London combines scholarship and art to inspire empathy with those crossing the Mediterranean.

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Dead Reckoning. Bern O’Donoghue/All rights reserved.

The dialogue below emerges from a collaboration between artist, Bern O’Donoghue, and scholar, Dr Vicki Squire. Their installation, Dead Reckoning / Crossing the Med, will be free to visit at Tate Exchange on 14-16 March 2017. It forms part of Who Are We?, a week of participatory installations, conversations and learning labs curated by Tate Exchange Associates: Counterpoints Arts, The Open University, University of Warwick and Loughborough University from 14-19 March 2017.

Linked to the Dead Reckoning / Crossing the Med installation, there will be a symposium dialogue between academics, artists, community and faith group activists on 15 March from 12-2pm, exploring how art and interactive media help us to think and feel migration differently. You can register for the Symposium here, and find out more about the Who are We? programme here.