AMY SUO WU, ROTTERDAM
http://amysuowu.net/Serenity Department
A Research Project on Intergenerational Mending
"Serenity Department" is an embodied research project on intergenerational mending and design as remittance made in close collaboration with Amy’s Mum, Maria Ling Qing Huang and herself. Through Maria’s drawings and conversations on their shared history, they messily attempt to mend the ruptures of migration and intergenerational trauma- silence, distance, time, language, culture and heartbreak. Within this project, Amy and her mother also practice mending as making, gestures that allow their craft as embodied knowledge to speak for themselves when other forms of communication and connection fray. These craft objects are material traces of the process which are also for sale, and the proceeds can be seen as forms of remittance to her mother. Finally, embodied publishing and spectral publishing are also explored as ways to communicate and share with a mortal public, as much as with the ancestors in the realms beyond.
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Amy Suo Wu was born in China, grew up in Australia, and lives in The Netherlands as an artist, designer and teacher. Since 2015, she has engaged in steganographic practices such as hiding techniques, evasion tactics, and covert communication as acts of protection, survival and resistance in the face of oppression and violence. This research is now published under the title 'A Cookbook of Invisible Writing' through Onomatopee. Her most recent interest and practice circles around literal and metaphorical approaches of mending, design as remittance and self-fulfilling prophecy and how text and textile might be woven together to form embodied publishing.
01BANANAS IN PYJAMAS
backpack
Price 40,00 €
This bag is called "Bananas in Pyjamas" because it reminds my mum of the Australian TV show I used to watch when I was a kid. Mum writes "One time Monica Trapaga from Play School and Bananas in Pjs came to my shop and we had a nice chat."
During a self organised residency at my mother's textile reparation shop, Jenny's Dry Cleaning and Alterations in Sydney, we embarked on a collaborative project together. Using the clothes abandoned by her customers, we repurposed them into backpacks. All proceeds will be remitted to my mum.