During the residency I explored the body as a vessel of memory, a time capsule, a biological machine, within the frame of Pragovka’s year theme: resources.
What happens when we treat inherited memory as a resource? Can looking inward, towards the past, towards the body, be a resource for healing and transformation?
The final presentation at the residency featured a new series of hanging sculptures with integrated fluid systems, accompanied by a spoken word performance. I wrote the text from personal and inherited stories of my grandparents and their survival in a Japanese camp in Indonesia, of trauma still carried in the body through generations.
The residency took place from 24 June to 26 July 2025 at Pragovka in Prague, Czech Republic, concluding with a solo presentation as the finissage of the residency.
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What happens when we treat inherited memory as a resource? Can looking inward, towards the past, towards the body, be a resource for healing and transformation?
The final presentation at the residency featured a new series of hanging sculptures with integrated fluid systems, accompanied by a spoken word performance. I wrote the text from personal and inherited stories of my grandparents and their survival in a Japanese camp in Indonesia, of trauma still carried in the body through generations.
The residency took place from 24 June to 26 July 2025 at Pragovka in Prague, Czech Republic, concluding with a solo presentation as the finissage of the residency.
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A Body Remembers What It Longs to Forget, 2025
Sculpture; Styrofoam, metal rod, latex, silicone, tubing, liquid, pump, wire, acrylic resin
Sculpture; Styrofoam, metal rod, latex, silicone, tubing, liquid, pump, wire, acrylic resin
