When you return home...
About
When you return home... is a Berlin-focused research project about notions of home, family, displacement and belonging in the global, networked age. Conducting interviews with current inhabitants (both long-term and temporary) of Berlin from across the breadth of socio-economic stratum, the project intends to contribute to existing dialogues about our "place" in contemporary society.
Segments of audio recorded during the oral history interviews will be developed into a multi-layered sound installation to be presented in public space - such as Alexanderplatz - where passers-by are able to stop and listen or overhear snippets as they pass.
NB: The title is a short phrase taken from the Temporary Replacement Visa Card documentation. (Should your visa card be stolen - as mine was while I was in London - then this is the advice handed out. My issue is with those two sticky words: "return" and "home". Neither are relevant in my world, and so, the result is that of creating more difficulties than solving them. My advice - read Orwell's classic, Down and Out in Paris and London...)
This project will be developed during an artist residency
with Culturia, Berlin, April - July
2008. 