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Exclave at Brotfabrik Berlin
Exclave is a 32-channel documentary sound installation, focusing on revealing the different reactions and feelings towards leaving Hong Kong and moving to Berlin, in a personal level on adapting to a new environment and leaving a familiar environment. "Exclave" imbued with the voices of the Hong Kong diaspora -- dialogues between their memory and the cityscape they travelled through. Is reminisce or remembrance just a symbol of the past? Or does memory keep developing in the present?
The metaphor of islands and the ocean were used in Exclave to describe the in-between state of different people who left Hong Kong for Germany, the idea of different people navigating the ocean towards the other side, finding themselves in different positions in adapting to the new life in Germany. Interviews were designed to allow interviewees to reflect on the difference in their living habits, feelings and perception of senses from their time in Hong Kong and now after moving to Germany. Responses are edited to reference each other’s answers, in reference to Edward Said's idea of contrapuntality in diaspora communities. Field recordings from Hong Kong and Germany were made to be played together, as a response to interviewees’ answers, as well as attempting to represent the sonic difference between the soundscape of Hong Kong and Berlin.
‘Exclave’ is edited to be around 75 minutes, with sections about interviewees’ locating their current position in life after moving to Germany, changes in lifestyle and interactions with people and friends, and the idea of home, values, and Hongkongers.
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