Asylrecht was a multimedia installation comprising of the film “Asylrecht’, a section of the Berlin Wall, and detritus from a refugee camp in Serbia. It acted as a comment on The Refugee as a Monument to the Twentieth Century.
The exhibition was curated and designed by Another Space and exhibited during the summer of 1998 in a large aircraft hangar at Highland Deephaven, a former airfield on the shores of the Cromarty Firth.
The film ‘Asylrecht’ was made by in 1948 by Peter Shankland, a Scottish film maker and author. His daughter Cathy lives in the Scottish Highlands, close to the Cromarty Firth, and was the inspiration for the project.
Artists involved: Trevor Avery, Nigel Mullen.
In association with the Yorkshire Sculpture Park, The Bundesarchiv, and Transit Film Berlin. Supported by Scottish Arts Council, Ross and Cromarty Enterprise, Highlands and Islands Enterprise, and The Highland Council.
