[Nettime-nl] Zomervakantie tableau vivant, aflevering 1: Caribbean Paradise Tragedy

[Tjebbe van Tijen via Chello <t.tijen@chello.nl>]

Een introductie naar de eerste van een reeks tableaux vivants voor de  
zomervakantie 2009
aflevering 1: Caribbean Paradise Tragedy

De link naar het tableau met achtergrondinformatie gaat via mijn blog  
The Limping Messenger/De Hinkende Bode

Caribbean Paradise Tragedy: 28 July 2009 over one hundred Haitian  
migrants drown near the Caicos Islands

August 2, 2009 by Tjebbe van Tijen

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A week ago there was yet another news item on a disaster with Haitian  
boat migrants of the Caicos Islands in the midst of what is for many  
people the period of their summer holidays. Over one hundred people  
drowned in the water of what is elsewhere often described as a  
Caribbean Paradise. Recently I have started to study (again) the  
migration question and so I had discovered some video footage at the  
web site of the American Coast Guard – dating back to 2007 – showing  
a primitive overloaded sailing boat full of migrants in full sea. The  
video footage is just after first contact between the migrant-boat  
and the coast guard and as a standard precaution procedure swimming  
vests are given to all boat people first. So what you see in the work  
below is already a tiny bit more safe as the actual situation with a  
boat full of people without any safety equipment and many who can not  
swim.


What gripped me the most was that the people on the boat – in spite  
of having been discovered and under threat to be send back – were all  
singing to a rhythm beaten on a djembe drum. And in my mind’s eye I  
combined this scene with the promising imagery of tourist flyers.  
What can be seen on the simple documented web page made for this  
purpose is but a primitive rendering of such a vision… You can click  
the image above to see the first of a series of holidays 2009  
‘tableaux vivants’: “caribbean Paradise Tragedy”.


tj.
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