Porty Art Walk

An unexpected, most moving and powerful piece of performance art on the beach this afternoon. (It’s on again tomorrow from 1200-1600 if you are local.)

Here’s the Art Walk programme explanation :


‘WHERE THE BODY MEETS THE LAND’

“Your discovery was my land. My discovery is your borders” Iman Tajik

Using his artwork as a tool to weld together trauma and awareness, Iman Tajik brings his frustration to the fore with jarring silence in his performance piece entitled ‘ Where the Body Meets the Land ’. In an almost unwavering manner, Tajik will create an indented space as he paces hundreds of thousands of times from a flag pole, buried in the sand, hoisting up a shimmering gold emergency blanket, to the seashore and back. This act of line making refers to the thousands of refugees and migrants that have disembarked, including those that did not survive, onto UK shores.