Table Cloth: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner

The lving room is the most accessible space for the outsiders in a home. We chat with our friends and family in the living room, and we hold our social events in the living room. It is also a converging place for family, as well as a place where a family as a unit communicates with society. Artist Prilla Tania from Indonesia invited participation of new migrants from Southeast Asia though a quilt workshop, which she co-owned with Artist Zhou Lin-Zhi, and the Taipei International Art Village. With food as a language, the new migrants stress their different backgrounds and cultural memory. As the transportation network becomes faster and more convenient to move people and merchandise around the world, we see many countries have the economic advantages to hire cross-national laborers, which initiated a new wave of global migration. Mass migration of these new residents moved into the city and began to form a new part of the cityscape. Taiwan is no exception, and the cultures of food migrate along the footsteps of the new migrants into the world. The food cultures become a hidden mark of identity. Different tastes represent different background. Prilla, who graduated from the School of Sculpture in 2001, uses various media to present her thought to the lands and people. This work, Breakfast, Lunch, and Dinner, a special invitation by Taipei International Art Village, focuses on the new migrant phenomena and moulds the international style cuisines in Taiwan, as well as faithfully represents the new environment and multicultural society that is forming right in the city.