Site-Specific Installation, Durational Performance
ZK/U Center for Arts & Urbanistics, 2022
The durational work "The Sail From The Red Sea" features an array of objects and movements - scaffolding, industrial privacy screen, sailboat cloth, and a performative lecture based on gendered labor and invisible labor - through which I reimagine the architectural drawing my grandfather created in late 1950s. I drew inspiration from John Steinbeck's book “The Log from the Sea of Cortez” and his insight into migrant workers and social justice issues. Sailboat as a symbolic for (im)migration, nomadic and searching for a way to be, drawing attention to the notions of “borders” and “borderlands” that expand the contemporary perceptions of political divisory geographic lines.
