Times Museum
Times Rose Garden Phase III, Huangbian North Road,
N. Baiyun Avenue, Guangzhou 510440, China
One Song Is Very Much Like Another,
And The Boat Is Always From Afar
Opening Hours /
04. Dec 2021 - 30. Jan 2022
Tue-Sun 10:00-18:00
Close on Mondays
Conventional diaspora studies in the scholarly field have focused on ethnic populations that are displaced voluntarily or by force due to religious or political persecution, economic poverty, or war. At the same time, it has anchored diasporic identities towards a binary of statelessness versus the territorialization of nation-states and homelands. While histories reverberate with their material and symbolic effects, internet communication continues to create slippages between image and meaning as a form of digitized iconoclasm, in turn, shaking our perception of historiography. Global frictions are no longer restricted to contacts and exchanges in the real world, where a multitude of transnational tracks emerged immaterially, and diasporic imaginations can be reproduced along the flow of information. In such a sense, diasporic mentality has become a reconciled state of digital existence. Navigating through disorienting, algorithmic mediascapes alongside recurring surges of the pandemic, we tend to notice the hindrances to global travel and migrancy, but ignore the diasporic spaces from below and the psychic dislocation of natives.
Conventional diaspora studies in the scholarly field have focused on ethnic populations that are displaced voluntarily or by force due to religious or political persecution, economic poverty, or war. At the same time, it has anchored diasporic identities towards a binary of statelessness versus the territorialization of nation-states and homelands. While histories reverberate with their material and symbolic effects, internet communication continues to create slippages between image and meaning as a form of digitized iconoclasm, in turn, shaking our perception of historiography. Global frictions are no longer restricted to contacts and exchanges in the real world, where a multitude of transnational tracks emerged immaterially, and diasporic imaginations can be reproduced along the flow of information. In such a sense, diasporic mentality has become a reconciled state of digital existence. Navigating through disorienting, algorithmic mediascapes alongside recurring surges of the pandemic, we tend to notice the hindrances to global travel and migrancy, but ignore the diasporic spaces from below and the psychic dislocation of natives...
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Wu Chi-Yu, Shen Sum-Sum, Musquiqui Chihying, Sound Route: Bengawan Solo，Sound Installation, 2016-2021，20’40”, image courtesy of the artist.
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