What does Home mean to you? 🛖 Welcome to #APlaceICallHomeHalton a participatory community art project by hybrid media artist Faisal Anwar.
#APlaceICallHomeHalton is an innovative artwork that considers how we find our home in a time of abundant migration and societal instability. Due to war, economic precariousness and climate change, more and more people worldwide and within Canada are being forced to move.
We invite you to participate with this interactive artwork and reflect on what "HOME" means to you.
Share an image that represents an idea of Home. Tag our account and use our hashtag #APlaceICallHomeHalton Or send us your visuals in a direct message.
Your image will be reposted, becoming a part of our growing archive, and forming a collective memory of what Home is. Your visual content will also be added to a large-scale installation of photographs in motion, projected in various locations in Halton Region; Town of Oakville, Town of Milton, Museum of Burlington, Town of Halton Hills, during Culture Days between Sep13 to Oct 14 2023.
Follow our page to stay involved and be a part of shaping an evolving visual concept of what ‘Home’ is.
You are invited to visit the projection installation in person and we will share info about our opening events soon.
#APlaceICallHomeHalton is presented in collaboration with Halton Region; Town of Oakville, Town of Milton, Museum of Burlington and Town of Halton Hills.
Artist Statement
“A Place I Call Home” #APlaceICallHomeHalton
The migrant experience is defined by hybridity, the coming together of characteristics from the place of origin, residence and lived experiences. Migration and displacement from a place of birth result from many reasons, including forced exile, refugee asylum due to war or poverty, and often by choice for reasons ranging from oppression to perceived socio-economic opportunities. These experiences shape and transform our identity from the physical reality of displacement to our psychological reality.
In a migrant experience, multiple histories come into play at any given time, forming the basis of how modern societies are understood, embodying diversity and shared values and aspirations.
“A Place I Call home” is an experimental responsive, dynamic work that uses modern communication technologies and the power of images to examine how objects, spaces, and encounters shape memories, real or fictional, and their effects on the perception of what a ‘home’ is. It also recognizes how personal experiences construct identities, reveal how we know someone or form an association with the city and render new ways of understanding cultures, time, and life.
“A Place I Call home” invites people to share cell phone pictures, old or new, responding to an Instagram #tag, where each post is constructing a collaborative wall of memories. The collected images will be presented as an interactive, large-scale projection at a physical site. “A Place I Call home” strives to create a supportive community, a home where many commonalities emerge, and new associations are made when people share their lives and experiences.
Artist Bio
Faisal Anwar is a Hybrid Artist, Curator Karachi Biennial 22, and creative technologist working between Canada and Pakistan. Founder of CultureLab.art, he explores the intersection of art, science, nature, and data, investigating pressing concerns on climate change, sustainability, and shifts in new emerging economies. He is also a co-founder of ArtAddress, mentoring and fostering creative ideas and dialogue. His creative computational thinking, research, and artistic practice branches through interactive installations, immersive environments, data-driven interventions, internet art, HybridNFT, and MetaVerse / Web 3.0. For information about Faisal Anwar visit, http://faisalanwar.ca IG: faisalanwarstudio
