There is no ______ — Working Hard Residency Exhibition

Open: 2019/08/17 - 2019/08/25
Location: C8-20 Young Gallery,Dayi Area
Time: Mon.-Thu. 12:00~17:00; Fri.-Sun. 12:00~19:00

The “coconut seed”, which symbolized the persevering spirit and an ideal in their mind, exactly reflect their life of being a migrant worker. During residency at The Pier-2 Art Center, the artist collective “Working Hard” researched about different culture aspects of Southeast Asia randomly and casually in the Kaohsiung City. Every Sunday is the day they go out for field research as Sundays are the only off days for migrant workers. They often start a conversation with those Indonesian migrant workers by saying the only sentence they have learned: “Jalan Jalan ”(Let’s hang out and have some fun together in Indonesian) . In the exhibition, they built a flower bed near the street and invite different audience to have a seat. While different group of people sitting, the role of “the invisible people” who are only known as “the migrant workers” are replaced and exchanged. Through this action, artists want to remind that instead of seeing those migrant workers through a prejudicial filter, we should see them as a person, just like each of us is part of the city sceneries.

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