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Surabaya Exhibition
Building on the discussion and material accumulated thus far, we propose an exhibition for the ICAS 13 that summarizes as well as opens new collaborations towards the inquiries of the project and strengthening the South-South urban research network. We would like to showcase 50 stories of ‘Youth on the Move’ collaboratively produced from the Asia-Africa context by different partner institutions. The exhibition shall unfold the practices, temporalities, spaces and meanings from these stories, structuring them under the metaphor of “Waiting Room”, and bring lines of theoretical discussion in the roundtable and future publications, including journal articles and a book project.
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THE WAITING ROOM
Curatorial Note / Abstract
The Waiting Room is an exhibition-proposal to invite participants of the ICAS13 conference to linger through the inquiries of the research programme ‘Youth on the Move: Performing Urban Space in Global South’. Sponsored through the grant programmes of the Urban Studies Foundation since 2023, the project has grown substantially through collaborative networks and intellectual exchanges sustained through the support of French Institute Pondicherry, Humanities Across Borders and International institution for Asian Studies, Leiden and the Lagos Studies Association. ‘Youth on the Move’ investigates diverse and non linear space-time relationships that the youth inhabit and co-produce while navigating urban space across Asia-Africa. ‘The Waiting Room’ is a knowledge-sharing exhibition narrating about 50 stories of youth across Africa-Asia documented in collaboration with the growing network of actors and institutions that have germinated through the ongoing field work and across the region.
Literally, ‘The Waiting Room’ is a place within the conference through which people not only pass by, sit, idle, catch up on breath, take rest, chit chat but also note information, read stories, make connections, wander, contemplate; activating the work of imagination. Metaphorically, it indexes a host of allied practices and subjectivities through which the urban youth perform the politics of living within the global south, navigating the never fully implemented infrastructures, lack of sufficient state support or traverse desires and destinations to escape everyday anxieties. The practices invented to reconcile or circumvent these situations demonstrate modes of enterprise and meaning making, and showcase a liminal situation of becoming, thus bringing the notion of a static space, i.e. the waiting room, in dialogue with that of being on the move.
Imagined as a transitory and fragmentary portal / pavilion within the conference site, the waiting room is a receptacle of multiple temporalities in material and space that hint at the politics of (in)visibility of youth in the region of Africa-Asia. It brings viewers to consider the dialectics of youth-actions and corresponding (un)folding urbanities through stories that may offer new insights into their own practice of maneuvering their respective contexts. In the form and material held within the waiting room, visitors may engage and play, make friendships, maneuver around rules, share information - thus building agency and networks for the(ir) future.
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In addition to the above cited institutions, the curators would like to acknowledge the academic support offered by Peking University (Beijing), Tongji University (Shanghai), School of Environment & Architecture (Mumbai), Ambedkar University (Delhi), Geoffrey Bawa Trust (Sri Lanka), DBSA Art Programme (Nairobi) as well as the local partners from Surabaya. Scholars from the above institutions shall contribute to the story-telling and participate in the round table discussion entitled “Linger Longer: Collaborative Engagement in Collecting and Narrating Young Peoples’ Stories”.
Youth on the Move Team
Anuj Daga (School of Environment and Architecture, University of Mumbai)
Min Tang (Tongji University)
Ying Cheng (Peking University)
Contributors
Advit Kalgutkar
Andrew Adigwe
Anu Sabhlok
Brian Otieno
Collective Research Initiatives Trust (CRIT)
Dream Building Service Association (DBSA)
Dimas Ijat
Dwiputra Rizkyandhani
Ennovate Dance House
Illuminate Theatre Productions
Ka Kin Cheuk
Li Dong
Min Tang
Nadya Perera
Nancy Chelwek
Nisha Nair
Nitesh Patel
Patrick Shomba
Prakriti Shukla
Pranjal Sancheti
Prasad Shetty
Rezza Lellyana
Rupali Gupte
Ryan Herdiansyah
Qidi Feng
Segun Adefila
Shambhavi Bhushan
Studio Immaterial
Tatiana Thieme
Wong Liensheng
Ying Cheng
Yusuf Avci
Zenzo Siamenda
Production
Tasyha Febrycha
Taufiq Ezha Prianto
Site Assistance
Ayos Purwoaji
Gata Mahardik
Execution
Anggie Arizal Geovanni
Gilvan Rachmadhany
Lutfiah Setyo Cahyani
Aliyya Azra Amanina
Annisa Rahmatillah
Muhammad Afif muqsith
Sarah Nur Rizqi
Nayla Dewi Putri Wardana
Happy Firnie Nur Khaila
Bryan Setya Darma
Acknowledgements
A4 Museum
Charlot Ngwenya
Deep Desai
Dimas Kuswantoro
Sunil Jambhulkar
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More images in the Gallery
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KEY
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Advit Kalgutkar / Timepass Gateway
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Andrew Adigwe / OLOIBIRI
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Anu Sabhlok / ROAD CHRONICLES: A SUBALTERN TRAVELOGUE
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Brian Otieno / THE GENTLEMEN FROM THE SLUM
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Collective Research Initiatives Trust (CRIT) / Rupali Gupte & Prasad Shetty / BEING NICELY MESSY
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Dream Building Service Association (DBSA) / COMIC BOOKS AND MOVING NARRATIVES:
a storytelling journey between Mathare and China -
Ka Kin Cheuk / WAITING IN KEQIAO
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Li Dong / AFRICAN COMMUNITY IN GUANGZHOU
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Min Tang / OCCUPYING PARIS : ASYLUM SEEKERS' WAITING AND MOVING
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Min Tang / POPULAR CARTOGRAPHY : NARRATING AND (RE)MAPPING OF / WITH DHARAVI YOUTH
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Nadya Perera / WHILE YOU SLEPT
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Nancy Chelwek / DANFO
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Nisha Nair / NICHE MILTE HAIN | MEET YOU BELOW (IN THE BASEMENT)
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Prakriti Shukla / WILL YOU CROSS THE LAST RIVER?
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Pranjal Sancheti / HOME AS ASSEMBLAGE: ARCHITECTURE FOR CIRCULAR MIGRATION
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Qidi Feng / HALO QUEEN
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Shambhavi Bhushan / HOMESCAPING: AFRICAN MIGRANTS AND SOCIO-SPATIAL STRATEGIES IN BENGALURU, INDIA
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Tatiana Thieme with Patrick Shomba / NAIRBOI HUSTLE
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Wong Liensheng / SUPERNOVA LAND
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Ying Cheng / ALTERNATIVE ART SPACES IN LAGOS
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Ying Cheng / CHINA BAG: THE SYMBOL OF GLOBAL SOUTH MIGRATIONS
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Yusuf Avci / WAITING IN JAPAN: ASYLUM SEEKERS’ JOURNEY FROM DETENTION TO LOVE
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Zenzo Siamenda / BUS DRAWINGS
Performance-Stories by Studio Immaterial (Dimas Ijat, Dwiputra Rizkyandhani, Rezza Lellyana, Ryan Herdiansyah ) + Segun Adefila (Crown Troupe)
Read Work Descriptions
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Roundtable Convenor(s), Roundtable Chair(s)
Ying Cheng - Peking University, China
Min Tang - Tongji University, China
Anuj Daga - University of Mumbai, India
Roundtable Participants:
Aarti Kawlra – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Netherlands
Qidi Feng – University of Amsterdam, Netherlands
Segun Adefila – Crown Troupe of Africa, Nigeria
Ryan Herdiansyah – Studio IMMATERIAL, Indonesia
Frederico Ravioli – ARCO Cooperative School, Brazil
Siqi Tu – Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology,
Enrico Joaquin Lapuz – International Institute for Asian Studies (IIAS), Netherlands
Linger Longer with Youth on the Move
Roundtable / 30th July 2024, 14:00-15:45 P1.04
"Youth on the Move (YOTM): Performing Urban Space in the Global South" is a research project initiated by Ying Cheng (Peking University, cultural studies), Min Tang (Tongji University, southern urbanist) and Anuj Daga (School of Environment & Architecture, architect-curator), that has received the Urban Seminar Series 2023 Award granted to the most promising urban studies proposals across the world annually by the Urban Studies Foundation(USF), UK. The project seeks to investigate Southern urbanities that youth produce on the move - through short - and long-term mobilities in/across the radically changing urban spaces. It aims to decolonise knowledge production and explicitly promote South-South collaboration, notably across Asia-Africa. The YOTM project has been moving from Lagos Artistic Workshop (2023.06), to Virtual Online Lecture Series (10.2023-01.2024), and to Shanghai Early Career Scholars' Methodological Workshop (05.2024).
Youth On the Move X Surabaya
YOTM in collaboration with Humanities Across Borders presents "The Waiting Room '' Exhibition, along with a roundtable session "Linger Longer" followed by a performance-story. "ÌGBÀLÈ / Pasca Ruang / Post-Space'', by Segun Adefila, founder of Crown Troupe of Africa, (Nigeria) in collaboration with Surabaya performance artists from Studio IMMATERIAL (Ryan Herdiansyah, Dimas Ijat, Rezza Lellyana, and Dwiputra Rizkyandhani).
This performance is an outcome of exchanges in Surabaya, as well as inspiration from the various practices of youth across the global south narrated in the exhibition. The three events have been co-produced by scholars and practitioners across Asia, Africa and beyond. They demonstrate collaborative engagements in collecting and (re)narrating the young peoples’ stories; making the grounded knowledge accessible to a wider audience.
The City: In Waiting
The team of 'Youth on the Move' is delighted to announce the next step of its journey - an exhibition on the collaboration and learning from the project so far - to be inaugurated for the ICAS13 conference in Surabaya, Indonesia (28 June - 1 Aug 2024). To make all of you a part of this journey, we welcome photo-post contributions for our exhibit 'The City: In Waiting' from everyone who is curious and interested in the urbanity of global south.
How do city spaces of Global South become public? How are urban spaces tamed amidst the emerging infrastructures? Share with us stories of people, places and practices from the Global South that shape the city, in waiting.
Take a moment to share a photo/video or two from your everyday city that may be turned into a postcard exhibit for our exhibition 'The Waiting Room' in Surabaya, through the link below:
https://forms.gle/ozYr5YEoz1pkzEk87
The photostream shall become a growing public archive for developing new interests for urban researchers.
Contribute
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