Project Cocoon x TPL - storytelling through objects

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回箱 · 绞丝旁计划

Homecoming - Project Cocoon:

Based on the artwork “Homecoming 回箱", “Project Cocoon绞丝旁计划” is an experimental community outreach project created by a mother-daughter artist collective Zhu Dandan and Wang Zi. By going deep into communities in various regions of Canada, Dandan and Zi host collective storytelling workshops based on objects. They introduce printmaking, photography, collage and bookbinding techniques to guide each participant in making a mixed-media artist book. Participants listen to each other’s family stories and gain valuable art-making techniques in a household environment with accessible mediums.

This artist talk is hybrid, both in-person at the Toronto Public Library Albert Campbell bRanch, and it will be live streamed on Zi's Instagram and the TPL platform.

回箱 · 绞丝旁计划

“绞丝旁计划” 是母女艺术家组合——朱丹丹和王紫，以“Homecoming 回箱”作品为蓝本，打造的实验性社区拓展项目。该计划通过深入加拿大各个地区的小社区，以家族故事为题材，以物品为线索，用图文并茂的形式，创作家族历史相关的综合媒介艺术家书。各族裔参与者通过面对面的教学活动，尝试用艺术的手法记录情感，讲述一段故事。在分享和聆听家族故事中，增进彼此了解，创造包容性的文化。“绞丝旁计划”旨在鼓励人们关注自己家族的迁徙和变迁，进而深度探索自我身份认同。

This program is made possible thanks to Toronto Arts Council Strategic Funding.

Photo : Alex Haochuan Xu

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Wang Zi

Wang Zi (b. Nanjing, China) is an artist-educator based in

Toronto. She has a BFA in Printmaking (OCADU) and currently pursuing MFA at York. She has shown works in the Ontario Legislative Assembly, Métis Space (HK), Art Bank Canada, and Richmond Hill Public Library. She has curated arts and cultural programs in various institutions, including the Royal Ontario Museum, City of Ottawa and CAMH. Zi works with her mother, writer and illustrator Zhu Dandan, as a mother-daughter collective. Their community-based art program, “Homecoming - Project Cocoon”, 回箱 - 绞丝旁计划 will be co-launched by the Toronto Public Library - Albert Campbell branch Fall 2024.