Hans Hamid: A Tribute to the Hybrid
Stipendiat ved Kunstakademiet i Trondheim, NTNU
The project ”A Tribute to the Hybrid” aims at developing a way of thinking, which is able to map out intercultural experiences.
The concept ”intercultural experience” is here understood as experiences made when people have chosen to, or have been forced to move from one cultural and geographic place to another.
”Hybrid” is here understood as a state of estrangement in relation to our daily environment. I write we, as I believe we all, at some point in life, are alienated in relation to our surroundings. This suggests that the project ultimately deals with experiences that are known and relevant to most people.
What is here described as ”culture” creates the ground for distance. The stranger (or that which is alien) is produced by daily speech. Based on personal experience, this can lead to that “what is seen as alien in oneself ” seek inner exile, it is suppressed and forgotten. ”A silent stranger is thereby created inside oneself”.
In order to develop a course of thought, it has been necessary to find an appropriate discursive model. Based on personal experience, conversations with good supervisors and colleagues, and through theoretical studies and research journeys, I have gradually been able to give body to the project. By means of a theoretical model, and a visual working-method it has been possible to develop critical reflections on the theme of the project.
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