Wanderers’ Footprint漂泊者的足跡
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When we decided to move out from our so-called first “home”—where we first recognized an environment we felt safe to explore and built our initial relationship with family members—our mobility started the journey of searching, shaping, and refining our definition of “home” and who we are. During our journey of settlement and migration, we actively selected a suitable environment/ space/ location to build the ideal connections that we pursue. Through living in spaces, we create intricate relations with the cityscape and are involved in its ongoing transformation.
Wanderers’ Footprints is a virtual open space that constitute a series of different artistic exploration that discover the fragments of trajectories from Wanderers. The practice of bridging borders, weaving territories, and collaging memories from drifting between places, juxtaposes Wanderers' narrative with the entanglement of displacement. This platform nurtures a space for collectively thinking about fluid identity, the question of home and belonging, and private and public space; encourages different creative expressions and methodologies to reflect the process of “wandering”, and “becoming” with the relation to space. Using body, field, materiality, personal stories, fiction, non-fiction, sound, and images to embody our living statement, transmitting the past and connecting the present and future.
In connection with The Invisible Trajectory: Drifting Sounds and Shadows Between Cities—a co-curated project with SUAVEART, exploring the intricate relationship between migrants and urban spaces, centered on the life journey of Herianto Sulindro, a Chinese-Indonesian architect who pursued studies in Germany during the 1950s amidst the Chinese massacre in Indonesia—Wanderer's Footprints was initiated during the research phase. It serves as a continuation of storytelling, drawing from materials left in Herianto’s home on Suchbertstrasse in Zurich and Indonesia. The project further expands its scope to focus on gathering voices and stories of migration through presentations and workshops.
Wanderers’ Footprints is a growing platform that is currently sub-settled in Sharo Liang’s personal website, welcoming artists, thinkers, writers to join the process of developing the concept further through different perspectives and practice.
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WORKSHOP | Migratory Space: A Practice of Speculating Home
Exploring the essence of home and self-identification through personal narratives. Participants reflect on their history of homemaking, measuring the distance between their past and present selves.