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On being in diaspora

Nguyen, in The Refugees, states that “these invaders came to conquer our land and now would never go home” while speaking of Korea. The same can be said for the British occupation of Ireland. Thinking through diaspora brings up a lot of the same sentiment of “my mind trying to approximate what our lives felt like” before being in diaspora or away from the homeland.

Where is your home if you…

• Trained in embroidery at Goldsmiths and RCA.

• Taught us how to approach research and how to be aware of, and use the terminology correctly.

• Art as a research tool: Mel Bochner, Syntax #2 1971. In, on, out.

• When engaged, record. - N de Fretas.

• Reflect and record.

He referenced:

• Transcognivity... G. Sullivan, Making Space 2009: thinking about one thing while doing another. (Get this from the Library).

This made me think about what the Queen in Rumplestiltskin might be doing while she is trying to guess his name and how she would pass the time throughout the night.)

• Tasmanian basket maker Verna Nichols on how baskets embody culture. 2011 conversation Baskets and belongings about conversations going into baskets as they get woven. Conversation with Lissant Bolton Anthropologist.

• Kantha stitching

• Ethics in research

• Laurence K (2013) Stitched in the margins, Architectural Theory ?? (Not sure what this refers to?)

• Fiona Hall Sardine cans about ethnography, entitlement, classification, taxonomy. (Peter the Great collected teeth).

• Andy Warhol jewels cut out of a book work by

• Joseph Cornell cut out work. Editing as a practice?

• Marcel Duchamp cut out work.