Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow

Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow (Traceability is Credibility) is an ongoing conceptual art and research project created by Bryan McCormack, encompassing drawings by thousands of individuals, social media, and installation art, as well as educational and community projects, in partnership with several universities in Europe. Its focus is the European refugee crisis.

Development
Yesterday drawing by an 18 year old Syrian boy currently living in Kara Tepe Refugee Camp, Lesbos Island, Greece

Since 2016, McCormack, both individually and with a team of volunteers, has visited centres, squats and refugee camps in 11 countries across Europe and North Africa, specifically Morocco. At each location the team work with refugees, inviting them to produce three drawings: one of their life before (Yesterday), one of their current life (Today) and one of their life imagined in the future (Tomorrow). The drawings have been shared through the project's social media accounts.[1][2][3][4][5]

After McCormack and several team members travelled to Serbia in February 2017, it was thought that the project should have more of an academic and research focus, going beyond visiting refugee centres. This led McCormack and the team to begin establishing links with a number of European universities, including Roma Tre University in Italy, Sheffield Hallam University in United Kingdom, the University of Ostrava in the Czech Republic and most recently the International University of Sarajevo in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Yesterday/Today/Tomorrow has further plans to build academic connections, to develop community cohesion projects on the subject of the European refugee crisis. It also plans to create an educational app to be used across global education systems, as a resource to support learning for teachers and students on the migrant and refugee crisis.

Exhibitions
Tomorrow drawing by an 18 year old Iraqi girl currently living in Kara Tepe Refugee Camp, Lesbos Island, Greece

Several hundred of these refugee drawings, along with multidisciplinary installation art, inspired by the stories the drawings depict, were shown in Italy at the Fondazione Giorgio Cini during the May 2017 Venice Biennale. This installation was in conjunction with a performance, curated by the artist and Dr. Henry Bell, and 40 students from Sheffield Hallam University.[6][7][8][9][10]

In December 2017 and January 2018, McCormack, Bell and several students from the university took part in an installation performance in Paris, France at the Brownstone Foundation.

An additional installation piece was performed by McCormack, Bell and a small group of students from Sheffield Hallam University in Berlin, Germany in May 2018.

References
  1. "www.villamedici.it".
  2. "www.adnkronos.com".
  3. "www.artemagazine.it".
  4. "gossip.libero.it".
  5. "www.artribune.com".
  6. "COME PUÒ AGIRE L'ARTE CONTEMPORANEA NELLA CRISI EUROPEA DEI RIFUGIATI? SE NE DISCUTE GIOVEDÌ A VILLA MEDICI, CON L'ARTISTA BRYAN MCCORMACK".
  7. "I giovedì della Villa Medici: 8 settembre - 22 dicembre 2016".
  8. "arte e crisi dei rifugiati".
  9. "I GIOVEDI DELLA VILLA – QUESTIONS D'ART #9".
  10. "Yesterday Today Tomorrow".
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