Making Home: with five artists based in the UK
This video is a collaboration between Anna Laine and the diaspora artists Reginald S. Aloysius, Hari Rajaledchumy, Anushiya Sundaralingam, Sabes Sugunasabesan and Arunthathi Ratnaraj. It conveys how the artists investigate their Tamil Sri Lankan background and current plural belonging through their art practice, how their working processes of dialectic movements between accommodating themselves and creating disruptions take individual as well as shared forms. The complexity of the artists’ positions has been explored by means of direct improvisations and constructed settings in London, Belfast and Jaffna, over an eighteen-months’ period. They way the artists presently reconnect with fragmented memories, displaced skills, lost objects and confused feelings becomes a means to reimagine both the archive and possible futures.
Biography
Anna Laine is an interdisciplinary researcher with a PhD in social anthropology from Gothenburg University and current funding within the field of artistic research. Trained in both academic and artistic practices, she investigates overlapping interests and forms of knowledge production between the two fields, and her present project is focused on migration as experienced within the Tamil diaspora in the UK. Laine is employed at Stockholm University and the Museum of Ethnography, and has been a visiting research fellow at Goldsmiths, UoL.
