{"id":2494,"date":"2015-10-11T14:13:32","date_gmt":"2015-10-11T12:13:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/?p=2494"},"modified":"2015-12-11T14:15:23","modified_gmt":"2015-12-11T13:15:23","slug":"self-questions-ida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/2015\/10\/11\/self-questions-ida\/","title":{"rendered":"Self questions (Ida):"},"content":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0How do we place ourselves in HK?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I am a stranger but also familiar with the city, because part of my family is living there. I find\u00a0myself inbetween being a foreigner\u00a0and\u00a0a visitor, a guest.<\/p>\n

Dreams and emotions are mostly always the same for people all over the world.\u00a0But the way they are expressed is totally different and these distinctions, no matter how tiny, are something that interest me a lot.<\/p>\n

2. How do\u00a0I\u00a0connect\u00a0with other\u00a0people?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I like to observe people and\u00a0look at them for a while. How do\u00a0they\u00a0behave? What clothes do they wear? How do they talk\u00a0with\u00a0other\u00a0people?<\/p>\n

The way\u00a0people live tells\u00a0me\u00a0a lot about their character.<\/p>\n

What kind of furniture do they have? Do they have paintings\u00a0on their\u00a0walls?\u00a0Are they\u00a0clean, messy or super organised?<\/p>\n

From the moment\u00a0I meet a person\u00a0I try to connect with them\u00a0and\u00a0collect as much\u00a0information about\u00a0them as possible.<\/p>\n

A lot of this process happens automatically, it is like an\u00a0implemented system, like a computer program: I scan other people. I\u00a0do\u00a0not always like\u00a0that, but nobody\u00a0can free himself from this process. Everybody takes decisions through\u00a0and due to\u00a0his cultural, biographical and ethnical knowledge.<\/p>\n

3. What kind of people do we want to connect\u00a0to?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

As\u00a0many diverse\u00a0people as possible who make their living in Hong Kong:\u00a0on the range ofdishwasher to millionaire. The contrast in HK is really big.<\/p>\n

4. What does it mean to me to be in HK?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

On the one hand it is familiar, because this\u00a0is my second trip to Hong Kong and a part of my family is from HK.\u00a0I experience HK from their perspective and it feels familiar\u00a0in that way. But I also feel the\u00a0differences of\u00a0being a European in HK.<\/p>\n

If I leave the door and exit the `European compound` I become a stranger,\u00a0because\u00a0I do not understand the language and a lot of things\u00a0that\u00a0I see, I experience\u00a0them\u00a0differently\u00a0than\u00a0things that\u00a0I know\u00a0and I am used to. But I enjoy this situation a lot, because my senses are much more open. I feel like a child, seeing, smelling things for the first time.Through this situation of being a stranger I am confronted with my own perception, my values\u00a0and\u00a0my limitations. I see myself mirrored in other\u00a0people that I pass on the street.<\/p>\n

Hong Kong is a melting pot of different cultures\u00a0and contrasts:\u00a0mainland chinese people\/Hong Kong residents,\u00a0nature versus mega city, rich\/poor, educated\/no school knowledge, sea\/land, up up up-a city of\u00a0diversity\u00a0of every kind.<\/p>\n

5. What is\u00a0feels strange\u00a0and different\u00a0for you in Hong Kong?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Sometimes I feel\u00a0strange, because I am stranger in HK.\u00a0The people here look and behavedifferent and that\u00a0already\u00a0creates a distance.<\/p>\n

In chinese culture and in Hong Kong\u00a0a lot of things work in another way. For\u00a0example for\u00a0me as a vegetarian it is really strange that nearly every animal can be a meal like turtles, snakes,\u00a0dogs and ducks etc.<\/p>\n

Some people look at me and my daughter as if we are from an other planet.\u00a0Others do not care, I become one of them.\u00a0I find that quite interesting, because I\u00a0can\u00a0become an alien\u00a0inbetween all\u00a0the\u00a0people. It is a strange feeling\u00a0to\u00a0stand out with ones appearance\u00a0.\u00a0And on the other hand sometimes being just one of million other people.<\/p>\n

6. Do\u00a0you\u00a0miss\u00a0your\u00a0homeland\uff1f<\/span><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

At the moment\u00a0I do not, because I am also not living in my home country Germany.\u00a0Living in Switzerland I am also\u00a0a foreigner.\u00a0I only miss some\u00a0family and friends, in my case people\u00a0define\u00a0home for me.<\/p>\n

7. What\u00a0does `homeland`\u00a0mean to you?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

My homeland is where I grew up. Germany feels familiar\u00a0to\u00a0me, I know the people, culture and rules. But there are other very interesting places in the world which can be familiar as well.\u00a0Home is what we make out of it.<\/p>\n

8. How\u00a0do you work as an\u00a0artist?\u00a0<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Be open, see, observe, take time, leave space for experiments. Trust your senses, be brave, risk something and stay who you are. Connect yourself\u00a0with\u00a0people, never try to solve every problem only by yourself. Ask for advice if necessary and let yourself go. Inspiration needs time, to dare to go deeper.\u00a0Question yourself. Be patient!<\/p>\n

9. What are\u00a0your dreams\u00a0?<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

I live for the moment and I try to be modest with\u00a0my wishes\u00a0and\u00a0dreams. It is my personal secret!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

1.\u00a0How do we place ourselves in HK? I am a stranger but also familiar with the city, because part of my family is living there. I find\u00a0myself inbetween being a foreigner\u00a0and\u00a0a visitor, a guest. Dreams and emotions are mostly always the same for people all over the world.\u00a0But the way they are expressed is totally … \u201eSelf questions (Ida):\u201c <\/span>weiterlesen<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2387,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[76],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2494","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-allgemein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2387"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2494"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2502,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2494\/revisions\/2502"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2494"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2494"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.zhdk.ch\/transculturalcollaboration\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2494"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}