The Price of Water: An immersive ethnographic collaboration

The Price of Water is a performative portrayal of the experiences of refugees having fled their war torn country to seek what they imagine to be the ‘grace of safety’ in Europe, transitioning through a processing centre in Greece. This vivid dramatisation reflects on the roles of host and guest, good and bad refugees, the entanglements of migration and smuggling business, experienced in the two female performers’ quietly haunting recital of memories and hopes. The research and guiding concepts for this work relies on ethnographic fieldwork in Greece and in Syria, but they have wider resonances today during the current crisis of the war in Ukraine. The performance will inform a grant application on the consequences of war, exploitation and displacement through investigations of different modalities of capitalist invasion: the sudden and irreparable change of social relations and the policing/government of life..

People

	Name	Telephone	Email	Office
	Dr Maria Kastrinou Lecturer in Anthropology (Principal investigator) T: +44 (0)1895 265059 E: maria.kastrinou@brunel.ac.uk	+44 (0)1895 265059	maria.kastrinou@brunel.ac.uk	Marie Jahoda 219