Mutual Otherness - Kvet Nguyen

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Mutual otherness​

The word otherness causes goosebumps. The ones that remind us of an unimaginable adventure full of colors, and those that spring up when it suddenly cools down and we look for a quick refuge. Both reactions arise from today's dichotomy: on one hand, us as global consumers of benefits, and on the other hand, us not letting anything in that could be regarding the other. The anticolonial vision of cross-cultural identities is the main goal of the Mutual Otherness. The project has brought conversations with people of different origins with the experience of local space, while transforming their experience into formless movement. This experience then becomes a creative deformation, a process of creation and extinction of forms, but also an event that places forms on the border of visible and invisible, known and unknown, present and absent.

"What am I actually looking at? A substance of a strange shape without a specific indication. I need to define, I need to classify, I need to know what or who is on the other side. Are you like me? Or are you someone else? What group do you belong to? Do you belong to me or are you external? "

You are in a safe area. Hiding from the eyes of the majority, without fear of judgment. This is where you scream in despair, and yet it makes sense. You move under the masks of an industrial breath of clothing, as those before you have taught you. You are the living museums of your ancestors, the cultural heritage of the family's past, but the others see only a fraction. They look critically and almost immediately through appearance, tangible and physical predispositions that cannot be inferred.

So we become someone based on one look. But what really defines us are our habits, habits, movements, ways and activities of the body.

The word otherness causes goosebumps. The ones that remind us of an unimaginable adventure full of colors, and those that spring up when it suddenly cools down and we look for a quick refuge. Both reactions arise from today's dichotomy: on one hand, us as global consumers of benefits, and on the other hand, us not letting anything in that could be regarding the other. The anticolonial vision of cross-cultural identities is the main goal of the Mutual Otherness. The project has brought conversations with people of different origins with the experience of local space, while transforming their experience into formless movement. This experience then becomes a creative deformation, a process of creation and extinction of forms, but also an event that places forms on the border of visible and invisible, known and unknown, present and absent.