Creative Practice Showcases
(Be)coming Home: A Community-based Art Project View Digital Media
Creative Practice Showcase Peisen Ding
(Be)coming Home is an art project at the Branscombe House in Richmond, Canada. It aims to create an interactive mixed-media installation that fosters communities among marginalized groups, offering a sense of belonging and care. The title has a dual meaning: "Becoming Home" signifies the artist's personal journey of finding belonging as a queer immigrant from China; "Coming Home" shows an invitation to the public to engage with the project at the Branscombe House, finding a sense of home. For example, local community members are invited to participate as collaborators to tell their definitions of home and co-create the installation through various activities, aiming to a public sense of an inclusive, shared, and caring community for Richmond residents and visitors. This paper not only showcases the artwork and the art-making process, but more importantly demonstrates the diverse meanings of home and how the concept of home can be reconstructed.
The Power of Museum Take Overs : Empowering Creative Leaders of the Future View Digital Media
Creative Practice Showcase Sarah Louise Nunn
Louvre Abu Dhabi Education department has been stepping back to let future creative leaders take over the museum. The Take Over the Museum initiatives provide a platform for the community to tell their stories from their perspective, using the museum collection as a catalyst for interpretation. Over the last two years, the programme has diversified, producing a thriving ecosystem of community participation. Through our training programmes and coaching, teachers and students are empowered to create, produce and engage the public with their digital interventions, performances or creative encounters. Shifting the power paradigm in museum education has proven to build sustainable community engagement and shape future leaders.
Understanding the Indigenous Community from a Non-indigenous Perspective: Fulfilling the Common Knowledge Gaps or Misunderstandings Surrounding the Indigenous Community View Digital Media
Creative Practice Showcase Eunyoung Park
Indigenous populations in North American populations are commonly recognized as social minorities, as they were largely impacted by the historical colonialism of European settlers. Although the current high school curriculum educates the youths on the historical events that led to the sufferings of many Indigenous people, the teaching of cultural practices of Indigenous people and their current, post-colonial struggles tends to remain vague. Since systemic discrimination towards Indigenous people remains in various sectors of society, it is important for non-Indigenous people to fully understand the culture of the Indigenous community and their social struggles to support the removal of the unrecognized discrimination. This digital art project aims to help fill the knowledge gaps widely spread amongst many non-Indigenous people in Canada, by illustrating the common myths surrounding the Indigenous people, their current social problems, and a few cultural discrepancies between the White and Indigenous populations. This project compiles the illustrations produced by a non-Indigenous artist (the author) who studied the ‘Sociology of Indigenous Peoples’ course taught by an Indigenous instructor at the University of British Columbia. The primary literature or other media (e.g. podcasts related to the Indigenous community) were analyzed, and its understandings by the author were used to help illustrate such ideas in digital drawings.
