Formalised temporary areas, the installation explores issues of the creation and disposition of refugees, aspects of refugee ‘management’ and temporary living spaces, and the impact of refugees on established populations. et al; Arco Madrid is realised in collaboration with Blaine Western and shows expanded references on the dialectical object as sites of neutrality and engagement, transparency and opacity, art and non-art. Gathering together a rich complexity of reflective documents within stylistic devices of audio-visual film, video, montage, and installation, the project looks at non-utopian, or other spaces, within culture. The current refugee situation is now at a scale that Europe’s initial generosity has more recently turned to various shades of rejection. New laws restrict numbers of refugees and potentially confiscate their belongings. The Arco installation presents a formalised refugee space, with various accoutrements evoking aspects of refugee subsistence. Through a Google Earth representation and reference to charity organisations, it highlights the restricted engagement of most of Western society, with non-specific fears relating to the invasion and expansion of both the refugees and the groups creating them, and a contrasting sense that there is a need to ‘lend a hand.’