Oral History of Family Migration is a workshop derived from Shubigi Rao's exhibition These Petrified Paths at the Rockbund Art Museum. Shubigi Rao focuses on the "underground" as a survival strategy. For her, marginal communities preserving their own way of life and telling their own stories effectively resist hegemony. The workshop by Luo Zha invites participants to illustrate and narrate the migration history of their own families. Using specific locations and events that affected migration, the workshop jointly traces the memories flowing along each individual's bloodline path that has not yet been petrified.
Workshop Process:
The workshop is led by Luo Zha, who has been actively involved as a member of “the Dinghaiqiao Mutual Aid Co-governance Initiative” since 2018. In 2021, she initiated "the Lazy Man's Home" at her residence. Through organizing activities such as workshops, exhibitions, screenings, and book clubs in a semi-open domestic space, she aims to practice social engagement within the context of daily life. Luo Zha endeavours to explore the resistance strategies of ordinary individuals against structural oppression.
上海外滩美术馆舒比吉·拉奥个展“这些石化的小径”衍生项目“血缘地图”工作坊由罗渣主持。艺术家舒比吉·拉奥关注“地下”生存策略。在她看来，边缘群体保存自身的生活方式和讲述自身的故事已是霸权之下的有效抵抗。“血缘地图”邀请每一位参与者描绘、讲述自己家庭的迁徙历史。我们将会以具体的地点和影响迁徙的事件为线索，共同追溯尚未石化的血缘路径上流淌的个体记忆。
嘉宾介绍：
罗渣，2018年起作为定海桥互助社共治计划的成员开始活动，2021年在自己的住处发起组建了懒汉之家，通过在半开放的居家空间中组织创作、展览、放映和读书会等活动，尝试在日常生活的语境中实践社会参与，探索普通人针对结构性压迫的抵抗策略。