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The Hakka (客家) people are a Chinese ethnic group originating from Northern China, but who migrated South to during the fall of the Song dynasty in the 1270s. "Hakka" literally means "Guest People", as to distinguish them from the natives (本地), and because the Hakka never fully assimilated into the native population. Later on, Hakka people migrated further to Singapore, Indonesia, Malaysia, India, and as far as Jamaica. They brought with them their own culture, food, language, and sense of nomadic openness. Over the past 7 months, I feel I have developed a much deeper relationship with my Hakka identity as I have been solo travelling across the globe. Everywhere I go, I am treated like a guest, and whenever people ask me where I'm from, it's hard to give one distinct answer. This mix explores migration as a continuous process of identity-building, specifically among the Hakka diaspora. By blending interviews that I conducted with the Hakka diasporic community, ambient nature sounds from regions where the Hakka people have lived, and some of my favourite tracks to listen to while travelling, this mix serves as a medium to highlight the interconnectedness of the Hakka people's shared experiences.
ABA Air SALON is a radio format produced by Air Berlin Alexanderplatz, a Berlin based artist initiative dealing with the distribution and documentation of forms of collective and experimental knowledge production. The broadcasts come from different locations in Berlin where we organize salons. At these salons we meet with local actors, artists, scientists and other cultural producers to exchange around research based artistic projects and practices. You can find more information about our program at www.airberlinalexanderplatz.de
ABA (Air Berlin Alexanderplatz) e.V., is a research-oriented artists' initiative founded in Berlin in 2009 by the artists Susanne Kriemann & Aleksander Komarov. The programme focuses on ephemeral artistic research and collective and experimental knowledge production. ABA’s operations consist of the conception, curation and implementation of various presentational formats: The organization of salons in different locations across the city, the release of publications, the stewardship of a residency-program and the maintenance of a website as a central place for documentation and archiving of these forms of ephemeral knowledge production.
