855 Kilograms of Homes in Another State
Summary
The drawings on these four bales of cardboard waste’s surfaces were made during the cardboard waste’s previous incarnation as ‘weekend houses’ of different groups of Overseas Filipino Workers – most of them transnational mothers – in Central, Hong Kong.
Supported by
Production of the initial work was supported by Australia Council for the Arts – New Work grant. The presentation of this excerpted work is produced during my postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Gothenburg’s Centre on Global Migration, Sweden with the support of Milani Gallery, Brisbane, Australia and RMIT Gallery, RMIT University, Melbourne, Australia.
Description of project
Please see attached PDF.
Type of work
Installation of four bales of cardboard waste and single-channel video screen, 25’31” loop, stereo, colour.
Published in
Bruised: Art Action and Ecology in Asia, RMIT Gallery, Melbourne, Australia, 12 Apr 2019-01 Jun 2019
Link to web site
https://artclimatechange.org/2019/event/bruised-art-action-ecology-in-asia/
https://culture360.asef.org/news-events/melbourne-bruised-art-action-and-ecology-asia-exhibition/
https://artsreview.com.au/bruised-art-action-and-ecology-in-asia/
https://vimeo.com/339924038
http://arthubasia.org/events/arthub-favorite-week-142
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Date
2019Creator
Wulia, Tintin
Keywords
OCC
cardboard waste
mobile ethnography
ecology
public interventions
Filipino domestic workers
Hong Kong
migrant workers
occupy
public architecture
Publication type
artistic work
Language
eng