Featured

Editorial - Illustration by Andrea Gaidano

Introducing visAvis no. 14

, , Comment Closed

BY THE EDITORS • ILLUSTRATION BY ANDREA GAIDANO • NOVEMBER 2022 Standing on one leg is no way to live, but it is a skill. There are those with a firm piece of this Earth on…

Read Post →

visAvis exhibits at Danske Grafikeres Hus

, , Comment Closed

We are holding an exhibition at Danske Grafikeres Hus (the Danish Graphic Artists’ House), at Sølvgade 14 in Copenhagen! Come to the opening on the 4th of August from 6pm-8pm, or stop by the exhibition…

Read Post →

Underground Revolution

, , Comment Closed

They had tied my wrists together behind my back very tightly; the coarse rope almost cut my hands. Somebody was pulling my arms; his hand grabbed my neck just below the knot in the smelly…

Read Post →

BORDER – a collective poem

, , Comment Closed

Written by the participants at a series of creative writing workshops which took place in the Trampoline House during Spring 2016. Collected by Liv Nimand Duvå I live on the border between the I and…

Read Post →

Lucky day

, , Comment Closed

by Liv Nimand Duvå • 2016 I’m standing in a room with my partner at the Swedish Migration Agency. We’re here to hand in our application for a Swedish residence permit, which should then allow…

Read Post →

Keeping warm in cold country

, , Comment Closed

When you exit the metro at Christianshavn in Copenhagen you see a number of statues known as the Greenland Monument. They were made from red granite by the Danish sculptor Svend Rathsack after he had…

Read Post →

A burning taste of exile

, , Comment Closed

Recommendation: Warsan Shire: Teaching My Mother How To Give Birth. Poems. flipped eye publishing 2011 By Lise Olivarius The first words of Warsan Shire’s collection of poems read: “I have my mother’s mouth and my…

Read Post →

No camps wanted or needed!

, , Comment Closed

Vasilika camp is situated outside of Thessaloniki, in the northern part of Greece. As a part of the European system for dehumanising refugees, the camp is strategically located in a remote and deserted landscape, far…

Read Post →