A project exploring new forms of history, memory, and solidarity-work linking the World War II incarceration of Japanese Americans to current issues, including activism around the Muslim ban and associated forms of Islamophobia, the indefinite detention and aggressive deportation of immigrants of color, anti-refugee policies and sentiment, and the mass incarceration and racial profiling of African Americans.
Wataridori Documentation Video 2019 from Rea Tajiri on Vimeo.
A collage across time and space, WATARIDORI: birds of passage is a multisite installation that activates real and speculative histories of the Japanese Americans who arrived in Philadelphia from US concentration camps during World War II.
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About the artist: Rea Tajiri