<\u00a0 <\/span>Heritage, Memory, and Mobility<\/a><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”10px||10px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||7px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
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\u201cWhere are you from?\u201d<\/span> is a commonly asked question around the world, particularly in multinational spaces like the UAE. But in an increasingly mobile world, both virtually and through physical migrations and re-migrations, it is not a simple question, and it often comes loaded with undercurrents of racial, ethnic and socio-economic status<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”38190d33-79f8-4b1b-a728-fd05a445abf0″ global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Indeed, the question is actually, \u201cWhat is your heritage?\u201d Heritage is how we identify ourselves to ourselves, as well as how others place us in the world through their perceptions of our heritage.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nHowever, global trade and mobility are old companions, and as such, current thinking in critical\u00a0 heritage studies rejects definitions of heritage defined by the Eurocentric and UNESCO World\u00a0 Heritage Sites, which confine heritage to physical spaces; or the narratives of governments, which limit heritage to national borders. Nor in digital times can collective memory, whether of a family, a community or a geographical area, be limited by borders. In reality, maps are inexact and borders are fluid. Rigid master narratives\u2014defined by religion, history, geography and so\u00a0 on\u2014have attempted to delete or smother alternate narratives, thereby deleting the fluid connectivity that made them possible. We must ask ourselves: how can recognizing this connectivity of heritage and memory across trade routes provide for a stronger, more sustainable future?\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThis kitchen breaks from the concept of heritage as pursuit of exclusivity by instead considering\u00a0 heritage through mobility as a form of connective inclusivity. This kitchen considers heritage and memory not as divisive, contested spaces but rather explores how heritage along trade routes speaks to different memories through shared experience. We will explore heritage and memory as products of humankind\u2019s trade routes, borderless, fluid and everchanging, and interconnected\u00a0 through the traded commodities that have shaped and defined communities across the globe. This shared heritage\u2014which has come at great cost for some, but great benefit to others\u2014exists not\u00a0 only in physical space, but also in the digital domain and collective memories that are part of our daily lives and rituals. Through this shared experience, we look to negotiate political and religious conflict and environmental challenges, and to build new expressions in the creative arts that acknowledge the past while embracing the future.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” header_2_font_size=”24px” custom_margin=”||7px||false|false” custom_padding=”30px|||||” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
Kitchen Projects<\/h2>\n
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The term \u201cMiddle East\u201d is derived from the region\u2019s geographical location as a colonial trade\u00a0 hub connecting the Indian Ocean and Mediterranean Sea. This multidisciplinary kitchen\u2019s focus is on the port cities of these trade routes; the oceans that connect them, and the peoples that enable this network of global trade to function. The kitchen will consider the significance of interconnected heritage as developed through migration and how these intersect with memory in\u00a0 contemporary ports today.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThe <\/span>Mediterranean and Indian Ocean trade routes had already left legacies of ongoing political <\/span>strife and violence, slavery, indentured labor and other abuses to humans and their environment, <\/span>even before the complicated disruption of colonialism that occurred from the 16<\/span>th – <\/span>20<\/span>th <\/span>centuries. <\/span>However, these trade routes also left behind positive residues, from great advances in<\/span> experimental science to radical new art forms, but these advances were not without controversy<\/span> and postcolonial erasures, like the tide eroding pictures made of sand, were common.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nCombining video, audio, theater and photography, this kitchen\u2019s projects map and frame these multiple, diverse heritages and collective memories, seeking new forms of connectivity, with the aspiration that such connections provide a means of moving towards preserving our heritage practices in a more sustainable manner.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\nThis entire kitchen project looks at the commodities, ecology, new art practices and religions that Indian Ocean and Mediterranean trade routes map. Using <\/span>academic and field research and <\/span>creative projects, the kitchen relies on each participant\u2019s research\/creative skills to explore these <\/span>questions in different ways.<\/span><\/p>\n[\/et_pb_text][\/et_pb_column][et_pb_column type=”2_5″ _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_image src=”https:\/\/sites.nyuad.nyu.edu\/researchkitchens\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/News-2.jpeg” title_text=”News-2″ _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_css_main_element=”-webkit-clip-path: polygon(0 7%, 100% 0, 100% 100%, 0 93%);||clip-path: polygon(0 7%, 100% 0, 100% 100%, 0 93%);” global_colors_info=”{}”][\/et_pb_image][\/et_pb_column][\/et_pb_row][\/et_pb_section][et_pb_section fb_built=”1″ _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”0px||-20px||false|false” custom_padding=”15px||0px||false|false” bottom_divider_style=”slant” bottom_divider_color=”#322F31″ bottom_divider_height=”60px” global_module=”2145″ saved_tabs=”all” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_row _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_padding=”||0px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_column type=”4_4″ _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” global_colors_info=”{}”][et_pb_text _builder_version=”4.14.8″ _module_preset=”default” custom_margin=”||7px||false|false” global_colors_info=”{}”]<\/p>\n
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