From the month of July 2020, me and 7 artists from various parts of the world had been working with Tokyo art residency Co.Iki on their first ever remote residency program. The theme of the residency is “Home”, and how we relate the home environment to the current pandemic.
My work “Melody of the homemaker” is my first sound-based+ participatory art experiment, and it combines my experiences in Singapore through three recordings of local homemakers in the kitchen environment with the experiences of people in Tokyo. These recordings are played within co.iki kitchen space, and homemakers who visit co.iki will write down their musings of their role as a homemaker on various surfaces in the kitchen space. Through this work I hope to surface the changing expectations, stereotypes, as well as the struggles homemakers face before and during the pandemic.
Within Co.iki’s residency’s kitchen space, mini whiteboards have been placed around the space for visiting homemakers to respond to the question: What does homemaking mean to you? If willing homemakers would like to participate but they are unable to visit the residency house during this pandemic, they are invited to participate through the open call link below:
Any opinions, thoughts or thoughts are welcome.
https://forms.gle/9HUrpFhe8ynnJS5f8
The responses gathered online are consolidated in this page HERE
For this project, I had also created a music soundtrack from three recordings of three homemakers in Singapore.
The soundtrack can be heard in the following YouTube link, and can be played to accompany you during your household chores!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uemyz5Et4ko&feature=youtu.be
You can listen to the cooking sound of three Singaporean ” households / husbands ” in the kitchen within the video. Please come and listen while doing household chores at home!
* If you have any questions about this project, please contact the creator directly from the project page (English), or if you are in Japanese, please contact co / iki directly. If you identify yourself as a “housewife / housewife” and can visit the co / iki space, please contact one of the following with a brief self-introduction. We will inform you of detailed access etc.
Contact: http://co-iki.org/en_US/home/
E-mail: contact@co-iki.org
Message via Co-iki Facebook page → https://www.facebook.com/c0iki/
☟ Interview with Shen Jiaqi
https://www.facebook.com/c0iki/videos/330102078373687/
After Talk of the Interview [After Talk] (Japanese)
https://www.facebook.com/c0iki/videos / 1018538748569518 /
☟ Jiaqi’s Interview on blog
Interview (3 questions) Translate here
https://co-iki.tumblr.com/post/626671910118375425/jiaqicorrespondence
For more about my project plan and details:
▼ “Creativity from HOME” Project Outline Project Outline
http://co-iki.org/en_US/events/creativity-from-home/
Blog: https://co-iki.tumblr.com/
Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/c0iki/