IAAGT BIENNIAL CONFERENCE

17th - 22nd of MAY 2022, COUNTY CLARE, IRELAND

Video Creations on the theme of Edges of Exile and Belonging

As part of our preparation for the biennial conference in Ireland, we are looking to create and share short videos based on the conference theme.

 

We are inviting you to create this with us. Our desire is to harness film as a medium to reflect, explore and creatively process what the words Exile, Belonging and Edge mean to us. We hope to hear diverse voices, images, languages and experiences.

The response could be words, but we would also welcome responses in sound, movement… whatever emerges. As an international community, we also invite you to send us your video clips on this theme, from anyone, in any language (or sign language), and any place, that we can bring together into one piece for the conference. We have already been gifted by the video offerings below, which were created in response to our conference theme.

Join us, and create a video!

Would you be interested in making a video on the conference theme?  We would love to hear from you.  Get in touch with us, or apply with the form below.  We’re happy to help.

Choosing to Live Abroad

by Giselle Ruzany

A beautiful expression and reflection on the theme of the next AAGT Biennial Conference “Edges of Exile and Belonging”, by Giselle Ruzany.  Giselle will be co-presenting a workshop at the conference.

Gestalt Institute of Ireland

A video co-created as part of a collaborative inquiry into the theme from students of the MA  in Gestalt Psychotherapy at the Gestalt Institute of Ireland.

My Father’s Hands

This video, which was inspired by our conference theme, offers images and sounds of family and of the west of Ireland in recent weeks, and distant decades.  It is a reflection on homelands, familial, spiritual and ancestral, and the edges of interpersonal and intra-personal exile.

Music: An Cailín Álainn, sung by Eamonn de Staic

Meeting Shiro Masuyama

A chance meeting with Shiro Masuyama “The only Japanese Artist in Northern Ireland” lead to conversations on the theme of exile and belonging in his caravan art installation “The Borderline Project”.

Music: Emer’s Dream, Colm Mac Con Iomaire

Jude Fay

Irish Gestaltist Jude Fay reflects on the theme of the conference.