Tianyi is always in either a second-hand shop or on second-hand sale apps where she encounters found objects, images and footage (and she never feels bored). Her love for used/ collected/ found objects originates from, instead of nostalgia, a haunted feeling experienced in the contemporary days as the past has not been shed away while our world keeps moving, or in fact it can never be...
Department of Collective Collaboration
2022 On-site installation, performative meetings, texts and drawings on the wall, videos, photos and website
Process-based collective work with Ida Leijting,Lena Longefay and Eliisa Loukola
Size variable As an office, as well as a meeting place, one of the main activities of the Department of Collective Collaboration is that of facilitating (in-person) conversations. Although the somewhat large (conference) table may fool you, these talks hardly involve anything conventionally office-like: the majority (if not all) of our work is performed casually; through water cooler gatherings, lunch talks and smoking-break conversations. The few ways in which our work may differ from day to day talk is that it is often (consensually) recorded, and (vaguely) centres around the topics of collectivity and collaboration.
