Exposition

The Baby Bucha Project (2019)

Anna Ting Möller
open exposition

About this exposition

en
In this exposition, I confront my feelings about having been transnationally adopted. I do not consider adoption a ‘win-win situation’, and I encourage people to think critically about the practice as well as the glorification of it. The colorblindness with which I was encountered as a PoC growing up with white parents was an existential complication for me. I was plagued by feelings I could not understand at the time and grew isolated. I want to visually express the feeling of being estranged and alienated from one’s own body and the fear of drowning in one’s own skin. I have often felt compelled to unzip my skin suit and leave it next to my trousers in a heap on the floor. In this project, I grow my own skin in a vat – or more specifically, I grow a kombucha culture in tea and sugar. During the fermentation process, the kombucha culture creates a cellulose material that resembles human flesh. The process is a slow one, and developing the material demands a great deal of love and nutrition. In return, I get a self-produced material that enables me to work independently.

sv
I den här expositionen utforskar jag mina känslor kring att vara transnationellt adopterad. Jag anser inte att adoption är en ”win-win-situation” och jag uppmuntrar kritiskt tänkande kring såväl själva företeelsen som glorifieringen av densamma. Den färgblindhet som jag har bemötts med som PoC med vita föräldrar har inneburit existentiella svårigheter för mig. Jag plågades av känslor som jag inte kunde förstå och jag blev isolerad. Jag vill visualisera känslan av att bli förfrämligad och alienerad från sin egen kropp, och rädslan för att drunkna i sin egen hud. Ofta har jag upplevt behovet av att knäppa upp min hudkostym och lämna den i en hög på golvet bredvid mina kläder. I detta projekt odlar jag min egen hud i ett kärl, eller rättare sagt, jag odlar en kombuchakultur i té och socker. Under fermenteringsprocessen växer det fram ett cellulosamaterial som påminner om mänsklig hud. Processen är långsam och det krävs rikligt med kärlek och näring för att utveckla materialet. I gengäld får jag ett egenhändigt producerat material som tillåter mig att arbeta självständigt.
typeresearch exposition
keywordsThe Baby Bucha Project, material, experiment, kombucha, Installation Art, scoby, adoption, Racism
date07/05/2019
published23/09/2019
last modified23/09/2019
statuspublished
share statusprivate
copyrightAnna Ting Möller
licenseCC BY-NC-ND
urlhttps://www.researchcatalogue.net/view/620436/620437
doihttps://doi.org/10.22501/vis.620436
published inVIS - Nordic Journal for Artistic Research
portal issue2. VIS Issue 2


Simple Media

id name copyright license
620442 test_film Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
620464 ba_te_anna_moller_09(press) atm All rights reserved
625473 ba_te_anna_moller_06(press) Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
625478 ba_te_anna_moller_01 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
625481 Vårut_hemsida_1_4 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
625484 Videoverk_1 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
625536 Videoverk_5 ATM All rights reserved
625545 Videoverk_6 atm All rights reserved
625792 Videoverk_5 atm All rights reserved
625827 anna_1 anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
625828 anna_2 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
625830 anna_3 anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
625844 ba_te_anna_moller_08 press) atm All rights reserved
625874 ATM36 atm All rights reserved
625876 ATM37 atm All rights reserved
625878 ATM5 atm All rights reserved
625889 Skärmavbild 2019-05-12 kl. 19.12.33 atm All rights reserved
625891 Skärmavbild 2019-05-12 kl. 19.18.50 atm All rights reserved
625894 Skärmavbild 2019-05-12 kl. 19.20.05 atm All rights reserved
625900 Skärmavbild 2019-05-12 kl. 19.23.52 atm All rights reserved
625910 annatingmoller_leftover_1 atm All rights reserved
625914 annatingmoller_leftover_1 atm All rights reserved
625923 annatingmoller_leftover_5 atm All rights reserved
625926 annatingmoller_leftover_4 atm All rights reserved
625930 ATM7 atm All rights reserved
625934 Yueyang_7_3 174 atm All rights reserved
625942 VID_20180118_112735 atm All rights reserved
625945 IMG_8955 atm All rights reserved
625948 rawpearljam_annatingmoller_2 ropa All rights reserved
625950 MVI_1597 atm All rights reserved
628159 front pic Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
628161 annatingmoller_leftover_4 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
628163 annatingmoller_leftover_5 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
628165 annatingmoller_leftover_2 anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
628167 annatingmoller_leftover_3 anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
628169 rawpearl_3bild Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
628171 rawpearl_4 anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
628178 MVI_3779 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
628205 visvideo anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
628225 vis_video atm All rights reserved
628236 VIdeoverk_4 atm All rights reserved
635195 VID_20190526_150049 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635205 IMG_20190526_143638 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635208 IMG_20190526_144322 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635210 IMG_20190526_144346 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635214 IMG_20190526_145805 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635230 60334115_416074665901054_2482343156939489280_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635232 60264947_2203271913105292_9088808555397513216_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635235 60303005_430120331119657_3823739607590109184_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635238 60334715_2334429146878002_7879297424986996736_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635243 60412763_385686688707985_7037963080306786304_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635246 60801117_2487226577976878_7524300974765113344_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635250 60469298_2283196735080907_5939585225112682496_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635263 anna_ting_moller_raw_pearl_jam_flyer_a5_rgb Galleri Skomakeriet All rights reserved
635277 anna_ting_moller_raw_pearl_jam_invite_se Galleri Skomakeriet All rights reserved
635316 grön handske 3 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635327 anna 2016 scoby Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635341 c-print C-print All rights reserved
635355 60220318_592308281257279_8388885819959541760_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635357 60264947_2203271913105292_9088808555397513216_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635359 60277214_2337755589838902_4754952151598366720_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635362 60303005_430120331119657_3823739607590109184_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635364 60318955_2377747899163711_4149527020319014912_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635367 60336911_2529913327041261_879427968701562880_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635370 60337237_2288195484766862_4726620258096381952_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635372 60343096_432542380644160_3795148740445077504_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635375 60470715_877473065931415_5299498934660497408_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635377 60549564_1366935223444557_4166843456578125824_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
635379 60703068_457332968142680_8675518970788315136_n Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
637531 jubaba @Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637606 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.39.58 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637608 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.40.13 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637612 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.40.23 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637614 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.40.30 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637616 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.40.35 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637618 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.40.39 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637621 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.40.45 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637623 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.41.04 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637625 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.41.23 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637629 Skärmavbild 2019-05-29 kl. 11.41.12 Studio Gibli All rights reserved
637631 Ums2_kottinspektionen_3april_videofil Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
637799 IMG_20190526_143731 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
638508 foront_svåra_förmål_vis_3 atm All rights reserved
638510 svåra-föremål-vis-2 atm All rights reserved
640048 IMG_6552 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
640050 IMG_6641 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
640053 IMG_6656 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
640055 IMG_6669 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
640057 IMG_6703 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
640059 IMG_6704 Anna Ting Möller All rights reserved
653964 foront_svåra_förmål_vis_3 atm All rights reserved
653966 foront_svåra_förmål_vis_33 atm All rights reserved
653968 svåra-föremål-vis-22 atm All rights reserved
654136 svåra-föremål-vis-4 atm All rights reserved
679109 anna_ting_moller_left_shoulder_I anna ting moller All rights reserved

Comments are only available for registered users.