EXHIBITION SYNOPSIS

Acting as a fictional company that offers solutions for "Trans-Racial Disorders", we have proposed the citizens of Shanghai to take part in the product development of a new product line "Chinese Perfect". Using different workshop based methods and interviews, we have asked people from Shanghai to show their Chineseness. The examination is the base to find ingredients for our new product that will make you Chinese. By giving opposing propositions we have tried to make the participants question their own identity and that of others, and their relationship towards it. It has demanded of them to adopt a clear position and make a choice within this specific situation.

The Trans-Racial Institute is a site-specific performative intervention that aims at addressing issues related to people's attitude towards international migration and the concepts of race and identity.

This is a process-based work that uses tools such as personal interviews, performance, participative workshop based formats in the street, and multimedia productions for exhibition spaces. Through performative actions a second level of response from the citizens is demanded and recorded.

This intervention intrudes values highly rooted in the individual and collective cultural or national contexts. Ultimately, we consider concepts such as individual culture and identity to be a bit outdated and inaccurate; we think new concepts need to be considered, closer to hybridization of races, the construction of reality through language, identities and values, consisting of multiplicities hardly identifiable and separable.