ʙᴇᴄᴏᴍᴇ ꜰᴀᴍɪʟʏ(ꜱ): ᴏᴜʀ ᴡɪɴᴅ ʜᴏᴜꜱᴇ

Become Family(s): Our Wind House is a series of art imagination workshops for the intersectional community of migrant and queer communities. It is developed from a queer pedagogy revolving around a semi-fictional story. This story interweaves a fairy tale about the protagonist, Wind’s search for a family, with real-life interviews about family re-making. The workshops will invite participants to embody Wind’s spirit by embracing its non-human, non-binary, ever-changing, and migratory essence, therefore visually expressing your identity and imagining your alternative kinship.

Through activities such as drawing sessions, textile design, a breath ceremony, a sharing circle, and a communal reading session, the workshops will unfold stories of migration, queer kinship, and family wisdom, thus guiding you toward new ways of becoming family(s). The workshops will progressively lead to a co-creative textile piece roaming in the space of Lola Lieven for a permanent presence. 

 Sun Chang (They/She) is a social artist, pedagogical designer, independent publisher based in Amsterdam NL and Wuhan CN. Sun Chang’s participatory and community-based projects investigate social fabrics and assigned social roles. By using art’s autonomy to re-exemplify the values of exchange, Sun deconstructs social relations and challenges notions of intimacy, family, and border.

 Harriet Rose Morley (She/Her) b.Scarborough UK. Her practice explores the gender and labour politics of technical skill development across Art, Design, and Architecture. Centered on the conditions of making of cultural and technical practitioners, the current iteration of this ongoing research titled, ‘Hard Work, Soft Work’, not only explores “Hard Work” referring to the “hard” technical skills both taught and exchanged during these processes of learning.