Mission
The mission of The Amplification Project: Digital Archive for Forced Migration, Contemporary Art, and Action (TAP) is to document, preserve, and raise the visibility of art and activism inspired, influenced, or affected by forced migration.
TAP is a public, independent, participatory community archive and open platform. This means any artist or cultural producer can upload, preserve, and share work narrating or contemplating forced displacement, and anyone can engage these works through our site.
TAP was founded in 2019 by an international group of artists, activists, curators, and an archivist committed to:
- disrupting dehumanizing and depersonalizing media and political representations of refugees
- increasing refugee agency and stories in archives and collective memory
- intervening in xenophobic and anti-refugee rhetoric
- revealing aspects of refugeehood invisible or absent from dominant narratives
- fostering a greater understanding of forced migration and its effects on societies, cultures, and lives
How to Participate and Join the Community
- Submit your artwork or activist project to the archive: Click the Submit Your Work menu tab to submit materials easily (no registration necessary). For more information about submitting, see the Submission Guide. if you are submitting more than one item and want to group your items into a collection or need help submitting your material(s), contact us theamplificationproject@gmail.com
- Comment on art and activist projects in the archive: Create an account or login (top right of each webpage)
- Join our Collective Advisory Group and help manage the archive. For more information, contact us theamplificationproject@gmail.com
Founders and Collective Advisory Group
Elizabeth Shoshany Anderson (Founder) is Assistant Curator at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, and the Lead Curator of Arts + Literature Laboratory, a community-driven contemporary non-profit arts organization. She also works to organize exhibitions for the Bubbler program through the City of Madison Public Library. Before joining MMoCA, Shoshany Anderson was Curator of Exhibitions and Collections at the Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay, Wisconsin. Shoshany Anderson was previously based in London, where she held a Curatorial Internship at the Tate Modern. Additionally, she has served as a juror and guest curator on numerous panels and programs. Shoshany Anderson received her MA in Curating the Art Museum from the Courtauld Institute of Art in London, and a BA in Art History and Jewish Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Kathy Carbone (Director, Archivist, Founder, and Collective Advisory Group Member) is an assistant professor in the School of Information at Pratt Institute. Before joining Pratt, she was a postdoctoral scholar and lecturer in the Department of Information Studies at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), the institute archivist and performing arts librarian at the California Institute of the Arts (CalArts), and a modern dancer and choreographer for more than 20 years. Carbone holds a Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA, an MLIS from Kent State University, an MA in Dance and Music, and a BFA in Dance from Ohio University. Carbone’s interests broadly focus on intersections between archives, contemporary art, and activism, particularly documenting and preserving art practice driven by human rights and social justice agendas and using archives as strategies and tools for expressive resistance and community building.
Vukašin Nedeljković: (Founder and Collective Advisory Group Member). Vukašin holds a Masters in Visual Arts Practice at Dunlaoghaire Institute of Arts, Design and Technology. He has exhibited both nationally and internationally. His recent contributions include Reiterating Asylum Archive: Documenting Direct Provision in Ireland, (2018) and Asylum Archive: An Archive of Asylum and Direct Provision in Ireland, (2016-2017). He was awarded an Arts and Activism bursary from Arts Council in 2018/2019 and has recently published the monograph, Asylum Archive. He is currently writing a book with Dr. Ronit Lentin on Direct Provision, entitled, Disavowing Asylum: Documenting Ireland’s Asylum Industrial Complex. Vukašin Nedeljković initiated the multidisciplinary project Asylum Archive.
Pinar Öğrenci: (Founder) artist and writer (Istanbul and Berlin)
Habibah (Biba) Sheikh: (Founder and Collective Advisory Group Member) theater artist, curator, and activist (Detroit)
Contact: theamplificationproject@gmail.com