Far Away, From Home

When:
Thursday, Mar 21, 2024 5:30p -
6:30p

Where:
Rose Kennedy Greenway - Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park, John F Fitzgerald
Surface Road, Boston, MA, USA
Boston, MA 02111

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Admission:
FREE

Hosted by:
greenwaypublicart Greenway Public Art

Categories:
Art, Lectures & Conferences, Outside, Photoworthy

Event website:
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Opening Ceremony for Far Away, From Home



Come join us at Rose Kennedy Greenway - Auntie Kay & Uncle Frank Chin Park for an opening ceremony celebrating artist Zhidong Zhang's new sculpture Far Away, From Home featuring live music provided by Hungry Ghost Ensemble, hot tea, buns, and artist remarks.


5:30 PM - 6:00 PM

Gathering and Music

Tea and buns will be served alongside live music provided by Hungry Ghost Ensemble


6:00 PM - 6:15 PM

Remarks Begin

Join us for a conversation between artist, Zhidong Zhang, curator Adam Torres, and scholar Thea Quiray Tagle.


6:15 PM - 6:30 PM

Pictures & Music

Take pictures with the artist and new sculpture alongside live music by Hungry Ghost Ensemble.


Far Away, From Home, an image-based sculpture, is part of Zhang’s ongoing inquiry into the complexities of home, immigration, identity politics, diaspora, and queerness in visual cultures. Responding to the Chinese zodiac Year of the Dragon in 2024, Zhang re-interprets the form of a familiar domestic shelving unit from their childhood home as a display space for their photographic work. The installation takes inspiration from the essay Far Away, From Home: The Comma Between by filmmaker and writer Trinh T. Minh-ha, pondering Trinh’s musings on otherness as both “a site of return” and “a site of change.” By exploring both “traditional” and contemporary imagery, the artist asks: “How can I map my desire onto the tapestry of an ever evolving home? To what extent do the knitted threads of native and adopted cultures become indistinct? How to metabolize the liminal existence of bodies that dwell in a realm of neither here nor there, but elsewhere?” 


A Special Thank You to Our Supporters

The Greenway Public Art Program is exclusively funded through grants and private sources, including the generous support of The Barr Foundation, the Deborah Munroe Noonan Memorial Fund, Goulston & Storrs, The Greenway BID, the Mabel Louise Riley Foundation, Meet Boston, and the Wagner Foundation. Far Away, From Home was made possible with additional support from TD Charitable Foundation.


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