THIRD SPACE* Studio
THIRD SPACE* Studio is an art and research-led interdisciplinary architecture practice. We establish our theoretical standpoint amongst our post-modern and post-colonial predecessors, as one of dialogue, mediation and hybridity.
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Inside of my Tiffin (2022), Mohsin Ali
Film installation (00:15:21)
Benzie Building, Manchester
United Kingdom
Artwork produced in collaboration with THIRD SPACE* Studio, for graduate MArch research thesis.
Image of the temporary installation.
The tiffin dhabba is a South Asian steel lunchbox that is comprised of a series of stacked bowls, used for the transportation of food around the busy cities of the Indian subcontinent. The tiffin brings a meal together, whilst also compartmentalising it. It is both an architecture of collectivism, and of rupture.
Supported by the canon of diaspora studies, I use the tiffin in my work to speak of the paradoxical identity of the post-colonial migrant. The tiffin and the migrant are both products of fragmentation, intersection, and of mobility.
Image of the temporary installation.
‘Inside of my Tiffin’ reveals the racialised experiences of diapsora through directly placing their image alongside footage of spatialities, geographies, and popular-culture media to articulate ones racial and experiential dichotomies. The artwork uses interviews with migrants that play across three screens, along with supporting home videos, found footage, and archival footage of their places of orgin and places of residence. In curating this experience, the sites of hybridity (Bhabha, 1994) and schizophrenia (Fanon, 1957) are urged to emerge from within the tiffin.
