Locus Project: Play board game! Working title: Asylum.

About the project

Locus - an art project with refugees, asylum seekers and members of the local community from Portsmouth. Artists Ania Bas & Les Monaghan were in residence at Portsmouth Friendship Centre for a year working with the participants to explore their personal LOCUS.

The residency took place between October 2009 and September 2010.

Some of the works developed during the residency continue their post-project life. This blog is being updated with any news on where the work can be seen, played, encountered. If you are interested in learning more contact Ania on aniabas{at}gmail{dot}com

The walks and our mapping exercises started coming together in a form of a board game - working title: Asylum. In the game you are making your way from the Home Office (the starting point, the moment of arrival) through various locations (Central Library, police station, All Saints Red Cross, Friendship House, ASDA, the beach) to reach the Home Office again (this time to receive your British Passport).

The game is still in the making so bear with us while we continue working on it!

We have already started talking about launching the game as a commercial product, although we all agreed that there is not much fun in playing the game live - 24/7.

Asylum counters - made out of pictures of us all.