Monthly Archive for August, 2011

Invisible Twinning

 

2010-2011

’Invisible Twinning’Gayle Chong Kwan, Guilia Giannola and Francesca Mila Nemni

Commissioned by Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, as part of Urban Meridian and the Asia Pacific Biennale. This year long project was developed in Berlin with artist Guilia Giannola and curator Francesca Mila Nemni. The publication ‘Invisible Twinning’ was designed with Anja Lutz, published by The Green Box, Berlin, is on sale for €12 through The Green Box:

‘Invisible Twinning’
Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin
September 6 – 17 2011
www.invisibletwinning.blogspot.com

Referring to the unofficial twinnings that reflect Berlin’s current immigrant population instead of the official equivalents of the city, the project explores the city’s long tradition of urban horticulture and reveals ideas of health in the widest sense: as balance and imbalance as well as on a societal and personal level, looking at how people navigate and share resources within a city.


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Symposium Panel Discussion: ‘The Legacy of the East India Company’

 

3 – 4pm 24 September 2011
National Maritime Museum at Rich Mix, London

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Talk/Workshop: ‘Emotional Learning Cards’

 

Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
1 – 2pm 24 September 2011

Event Info: Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts) and A Space’s second set of Emotional Learning Cards, ‘Who are you? Where are you going?’, follows the success of the ‘What do you feel?’ cards, praised by teachers, parents and art therapists, the new set is designed for use by all age groups. This demonstration workshop explores practical and creative ways to use the Emotional Learning Cards at home and in a school or college, gallery or museum. Led by artist Gayle Chong Kwan, a London-based artist who exhibits and works on projects internationally and whose artwork ‘Babel’ from her photographic series ‘Cockaigne’ (2004) features on the cards, the themes covered relate to how we form our sense of self and give shape to our identity, revealed or hidden in our personal and cultural belief systems, values and attitudes. By mapping our emotional and social histories, we increase our insight into who we are and where we come from, enabling us to make more informed decisions over where we are going and what we want from our lives and relationships.

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Symposium: ‘Cultivation Field’

 

University of Reading
28 September 2011

I will be presenting a paper on ‘Invisible Twinning’, the project (with exhibition and accompanying publication) commissioned by Haus de Kulturen der Welt, Berlin developed by myself, artist Giulia Giannola and curator Francesca Mila Nemni, where we have been working with Berlin’s allotment holders and KGA and immigrants for the past year around wider ideas of health, food and growing as well as the invisibility of immigrants in Berlin and Germany.

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Symposium: ‘Contesting British Chinese Identity Conference’

 

University of Reading
24 – 25 September 2011

I will be participating in a round-table discussion as part of the Conference

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