You’re Unwelcome

You’re Unwelcome is a Virtual Reality experience that places participants aboard a small boat crossing the English Channel. Developed to recreate scenarios outlined in a leaked government document in August 2020, the work presents a journey that has become central to contemporary debates around borders, migration, and belonging in the UK. While public discourse often reduces such crossings to statistics or headlines, the experience foregrounds the embodied reality of transit: exposure to the elements, unstable ground, and the suspended time between departure and arrival.

The project functions as an inquiry into the notion of free movement in a post Brexit landscape. By situating audiences within a precarious passage between territories, the experience asks who is permitted mobility, under what conditions, and at what cost. The crossing becomes both literal and symbolic, reflecting shifting borders, contested identities, and the fragile promise of movement in an increasingly regulated world.

A Live VR Experience Showcase
at the Royal College of Art,
London, United Kingdom

A Live VR Experience Showcase
at the Carpenter Center for the Visual Arts,
Cambridge, Massachusettes