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Tracking new connections

A curatorial research project tracking new connections to the rooted practices and ancestral wisdoms around the world and linking them to a plural web that supports a more holistic global narrative.

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  • Objects that Tell Our Stories 2022-05-14
  • Dreaming as A Way of Knowing and Existing 2022-04-23
  • Hunter-Gatherers in Making Meaning and Navigating their Environment 2022-04-17
  • 找回身土不二的味覺記憶: 食物文化記憶探尋的在地行動 2021-12-19

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Objects that Tell Our Stories

In my mother’s cupboard hangs a nyonya kebaya that belonged to my grandmother. It was handed down to my mother by her mother, and which my mother would eventually do the same for either of her daughters. To my grandmother, the nyonya kebaya wasn’t just clothing, it was also part of her identity...

Dreaming as A Way of Knowing and Existing

It is said that what you see in your dreams are fed by your daytime visual stimulation. Others say it’s your deepest worries, or your highest hopes—an insight into the mind. Some of the commonly accepted dream theories include those from Sigmund Freud, Carl Jung, and Antti Revonsuo. Freud belie...
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Hunter-Gatherers in Making Meaning and Navigating their Environment

Long before factories, industries, agriculture, aquaculture, and all of that of our recent consciousness, we were all once hunter-gatherers. It was sort of our original occupation in order to survive. Hunting of wild animals using various tools, and foraging for edible wild plants using knowledge pa...
The cipultangtang (cornmeal mush) in Basikaw (Photo credit: Jhuo Sing Jyun, 卓幸君)

Finding the Taste of the Past : A Local Movement in Food Culture Memory Exploration

“People’s memories of the taste of food are sketches of their cultures in different times and places, creating a cultural landscape that is both regional and national. In multiethnic eastern Taiwan, food memories reveal traits that are strongly unique to the locale and promote cultural reflectio...

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