Continued my interest in relationship between locality and foreignness, in It’s fine, you can talk to me, I transformed the negativity of language barrier between immigrants and local residents into a positive connection.
During the residency, I used advertisements with tear-off stripes and social networks on the Internet to invite local residents from Germany to tell me a secret in German, the language that I cannot understand. The processes of revealing secrets were documented by video, but without audio.
In this case, the participants shared their secrets with me, but without worrying that anyone, including me, would know or judge. The secrets still remain as secrets. I intend to narrow down the gap between outsiders and local residents, encouraging people to open their hearts to a stranger/foreigner. Here, the person who cannot understand one’s language becomes the person that one can trust.
The exhibition includes images and documents to illustrate the process of looking for participants, with the number of people who contacted me, the way they know the information, and the results, accompanied by the videos.
Thanks all the participants who shared their secrets with me.
Thanks everyone who came to the exhibition.
Thanks everyone who I worked with in GlogauAIR during the period.
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