Campbelltown City Council

THE GLITTERING CITY | 11 May – 1 July 2007

< Jamil Yamani

Corner Camden & Appin Roads, Campbelltown
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T: 02 4645 4100
E: artscentre@campbelltown.nsw.gov.au
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Jamil Yamani’s The Glittering City is a major new work that investigates issues which have resulted in a redefinition of Australia in the early 21st Century. Border protection, the treatment of asylum seekers and the processing of refugees have all played a dominant role in discourse and decision making throughout many tiers of Australian society in recent years.

The Glittering City locates contemporary cultural and political issues within two geographical sites – the Australian coastal border and Kakuma, the world’s largest refugee camp on the Kenyan/Sudanese border. It interrogates the forced withdrawal from homeland and the experience of migration and its symbolic relationship with Australia’s coast.

Penny Stannard