回箱 绞丝旁计划

Homecoming - Project Cocoon

Based on the artwork “Homecoming 回箱“, “Project Cocoon绞丝旁计划” is an experimental community outreach project created by a mother-daughter artist collective Zhu Dandan and Wang Zi. By going deep into communities in various regions of Canada, Dandan and Zi host collective storytelling workshops based on objects. They introduce printmaking, photography, collage and bookbinding techniques to guide each participant in making a mixed-media artist book. Participants listen to each other’s family stories and gain valuable art-making techniques in a household environment with accessible mediums.

Through these face-to-face workshops, each participant gains an understanding of another culture/family on a human level, creating a tighter community with empathy and inclusion. Project Cocoon Aims to raise awareness, dialogue and action for people to recognize diversity as an asset.

Project Cocoon is in three-fold:

Part I : Artist Presentation

Printmaking works, spoken-word performance and Artist Book

Part II: Workshop(zinemaking, printmaking)
Part III: Student Presentation (Storytelling, prints, artist books)

Part I: Artist Presentation

Zhu Dandan X Wang Zi showcase ongoing project Homecoming, it consists of drawings, writings, lithography, intaglio works documenting their family history

Spoken Word Performance 

"The Canteen" 

Creative director: Wang Zi 

Sound: Matt Pi & Wang Zi 

Essay & Performance : Zhu Dandan Videographer: Alex Haochuan Xu

2022 Oct @ Richmond Hill Public Library - Artist-in-Residence