Another special event, showing The Housing Question in Vallecas. ABM, a special artist-run space. Extra special for this installation we also showed documentaries about the Saharawi camps, featuring the singer, the late Mariem Hassan, whose music scores the Madrid section of The Housing Question. In the course of working on this project we discovered that it is the case of the Saharawi people in a 1975 International Court of Justice Advisory that precisely raised the question of terra nullius in Indigenous land rights cases. This is the concept that has been so influential in the land rights movement in Australia. So, the landscape of our continent has been transformed indirectly by the plight of the Saharawi people in a former Spanish colony in the Western Sahara - something we hadn’t known when we started our project. Music is a weapon. We met people at the screening who work with Saharawi refugees, fostering children from the camps over summer when the desert temperature is 50 degrees C.
