by configuring animal

This is an experimental library for the research project ‘rattling’

 

Since I decided to migrate to the United States in 2021 this research has served as an axis point while navigating all of the whirling space in-between. The library consists of sections that are residual vignettes of personal experience: A horizon out of sight, a threshold obstructed. As an immigrant, the constant dynamic is displacement, a body in exile. The interest in expressing my journey and relating to others in my position as taking this practice towards a multifaceted approach which aims to visualize the desire to find comfort in motion, offering the perspective that ‘home’ can be realized within events and relationships, not just the physically occupied space. Hoping that this realization can offer a field of agency for the mover who is displaced, exiled, reoriented, and give them back the option of decision in the most uncertain times. Can we have the power when we feel the most powerless, can we have a saying on how we move when it is decided for us?