Stories from the Room
(2020 - ongoing)
Stories from the Room (Shanghai), 2020
Stories from the Room is a long-term participatory project that collects personal writings about the shared experience of living through the “new normal” and builds a living archive that could be physicalized and reproduced in different localities in flexible forms. Iterations of this project have been exhibited in countries including Japan, China, Australia, Ethiopia, and Serbia.
Personal writings sent by participants from across continents are regularly organized into an archive by staff working on-site at the exhibiting museum or institution. Display of each site-specific installation changes over the duration of the exhibition due to the growth of contributions.
This project bridges remote and seemingly unreachable localities, as the antithesis to the idea of closure, isolation, and exclusion. It rethinks the gap between on and offline worlds as a new territory that defines questions and challenges the distance between sociality and solidarity.
Site-specific installation made with copper, high-density sponge, paper, a laptop, a printer, office stationary, and a plant
Installation view. Rockbund Art Museum, China, 2020.
Stories from the Room (Kitakyushu), 2020
Site-specific installation with paper, folders, storage boxes, office furniture, computer, printer, stationary, staffs
Installation view, CCA Kitakyushu, Japan, 2020
library permanent collection, group reading
The text archive of Stories from the Room is included in the permanent collection of the Public Library Bor in Serbia. Folders of the archive are displayed on the shelf together with a video explaining the project. Group readings are organized in which audience take turns to read writings they choose from the archive.
Stories from the Room (Bor), 2021
Stories from the Room (Addis Ababa), 2021
public intervention, action
