Fotograf Zone – MNRT – Welcome, Interdisciplinary Look On The Migrant Crisis

Questions connected to migration are often difficult. In 2021, the migrant crisis at the Belarusian-Polish border escalated, prompting the question: how could such a catastrophe happen in Europe, so close to us? The situation hasn’t still been resolved, but it did lead to the creation of the book Welcome, whose authors are an international collective of artists and academics based in Poland. The book is a collection of not only texts, but also images. Among the authors we will find, for example, theorists Dorota Masłowska, Kholoud Charaf, artists Karolina Gembara, or Omar Marques. The book’s last-year launch was accompanied by the exhibition (un)WELCOME, held in Krakow’s Galerie ASP. It also has to be said that the entire proceedings from the book go to the Fandacja Ocalenia, which actively helps at the said border.

MNRT. Welcome: Interdisciplinary Look On The Migrant Crisis. Krakow: Academy of Fine␣Arts in Krakow, Fundacja Sztuk Wizualnych, MNRT collective, 2022. ISBN: 9788362978397.

Tereza Špinková

is a theorist and curator. Currently she is studying for a doctorate at the Department of Environmental Studies at the Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University in Brno, where she deals primarily with the relationship between human and non-human entities.

#44 Empathy

The ability to empathise with others is a construct that has only been around for a few centuries. This does not mean that such a skill did not exist until then. However, the concept of empathy creates a field in which this ability oscillates from understanding the other party to understanding the self. And because such a playground can be quite expansive, and the playing balls of empathy can be ping-ponged from one side to the other, we decided to dedicate an issue of the magazine to this field.