The questions of adaptation and foreignness that embedded in the minds of migrants are the triggers to my current aesthetical approach. As a part of the migrant community, I found myself standing in between the idea of comfort and discomfort. Migrants look for a better place to live in order to escalate their social mobility and London as the capital city of Great Britain – an enormous melting point where diversity is buzzing loudly throughout the city, has the highest traffic of social mobility. In this research I try to map my ideas of migrant students and their sense of belonging in the place where they feel alienated. As well as to raise the question whether foreignness of a place and shared common motivation is a trigger to build a community of practice that allows the migrant students to learn from each other. My methodology draws mainly from intimacy and commonality shared inside the life of Indonesian migrant students, who lived together in London while pursuing their post-graduate degree. Finally, I explore the possibility of domestic kitchen/dining room as a learning space and everyday life dialogue as a pedagogical experience to understand sense of belonging from an aesthetical point of view.

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Written transcript of conversation on melanin and ceramic plates

Variable dimensions

2015-2016