绞丝旁计划
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.
Zhu Dandan X Wang Zi showcase ongoing project Homecoming, which consists of drawings, writings, lithography, intaglio works documenting their family history.
Performance
"The Canteen"
Artist: Wang Zi
Sound: Matt Pi & Wang Zi
Essay & Performance : Zhu Dandan Film: Alex Haochuan Xu
2022 Oct @ Richmond Hill Public Library - Artist-in-Residence
