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Self-Identity Wayfinding through Sensorial Insights, Time, and Memories
How are “home”, self-identities, memory, and nostalgia re-represented, re-imagined, and re-created?
In Searching for Home, five Toronto-based East and Southeast Asian LGBTQ+ identified millennials explored their intersectional identities and their complex relationships with "home”, capturing their reflections through visual and spatial representations.
Inspired by Yi-Fu Tuan’s idea on intersectionality of space, place, and time in the creation of attachment and sense of belonging; Homi Bhabha’s hybridity and third space; Stuart Hall’s cultural identities as processes of becoming and being, and encoding/decoding of messages; and Henri Lefebvre’s lived, conceived, and perceived spaces; Searching for Home: Self-Identity Wayfinding through Sensorial Insights, Time, and Memories explored the intersectional identities of diaspora and their relationships with "home" through visual and spatial representations.
Particularly, this research project featured collaborations with a small group of East and Southeast Asian LGBTQ+ identified millennials from the Greater Toronto Area. Through their experiences with food, living environments, time, and memories, the artists explored the constant negotiations between multiple self-identities, their daily lives, and the idea of “home”. Their reflections were documented and captured using visual based methods such as illustration, journaling, model building, photography, videography, and mixed media.
Special thanks to Asian Community AIDS Services (ACAS) and their Queer Trans Asian Youth program for assistance on collaborator recruitment and spatial resource; professor Markus Reisenleitner for project guidance; family and friends whom have provided emotional, material, and professional support to Amy (project facilitator/researcher) and the project itself; and most importantly collaborators Dany, Emily, Fiji, and Sarah for their patience, time, and effort in sharing their personal stories and insights creatively in this project.
Creative work by collaborators
As a queer gender-fluid disabled Asian person, Fiji reflects on her relationship to space in the Greater Toronto Area and transnationally to Hong Kong through food in Tasting my way through queer, crip, Asian identity.
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