Video: 16 Teilnehmer*innen, Konzept, Filmschnitt und Animation: Simone
Rueß, Kamera: Ulrich Metz, digitale Vektor-Zeichnungen: Hanna Grodner,
Farbkorrektur/Nachbearbeitung: Hara Shin und Simone Rueß, Improvisierter
Gesang: Barig Nalbantian.
In Kooperation mit dem Amt für Gleichstellung
und Integration, Universitätsstadt Tübingen, gefördert von der Lechler Stiftung
Stuttgart und der Bürgerstiftung Tübingen.
People with experiences of flight and migration often create a new home in temporary forms of housing such as container villages. At the same time, they remain connected to their homeland through memories and contacts with those “back home,” while seeking ways to live out their cultural everyday needs.
In a workshop at Kunsthalle Tübingen, I invited participants from Afghanistan, Albania, Armenia, Turkey, Iraq, Lebanon, Nigeria, and Pakistan to share memories of a home, to explore mental images of their current (hybrid) home, and to imagine visions of a future form of living. These individual ideas were captured in a collective large-scale drawing and documented in a video – both as a creative process and as a vision of communal life.
In addition, together with the participants, we explored their inner images of home in narrative interviews, which I then translated into drawings. In this way, mental spatial images emerged that make visible both personal sensitivities, hybird identities and the socio-spatial conditions of refugees.