Migration has been a social fact since times immemorial, sometimes as a mass exodus and sometimes as an individual attempt. Voluntary or involuntary, conscious or unconscious, migration is always accompanied with adaptations on all planes of life. Today in the era of globalization and increasing human quests, international migration is on an all time high and people frequently cross boundaries due to interests or compulsions. Nonetheless, even when the world has shrunk and the cognizance of other cultures is much more advanced through the internet and satellite transmissions, migration still accompanies an overall maneuvering of thought process that can never be gained through Googling of facts and photographs. There is something very real and physical that the human body & mind experience due to ‘the change of soil’ and adaptations, comparison & nostalgia get inevitably intertwined with each other.
 
The proposed project ‘Migratory Adaptations’ brings together artists from various countries that have migrated to foreign land for varied reasons and are currently living and practicing art. Each artist is free to discuss this issue in their own right and can examine the manner in which this migration has affected and influenced them as an artist, educator and person.

List of Participants:

May Hariri Aboutaam | Justin Diggle | Matthew Egan | Solomon Isekeije |
Ina Kaur | Shaurya Kumar | Jimin Lee | Heather Muise | Chunwoo Nam |
Karen Oremus | Saritdikhun Somasa | Koichi Yamamoto