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Media Art, Sound & Listening

The House of Uncommon Pleasures

Project

叠颈蝉飞补尘颈迟听顿飞颈产别诲测聽(Comparative Literature and English),聽The House of Uncommon Pleasures聽聽

House of Uncommon Pleasures聽is a multimedia project that blends historical fiction, autobiography, documentary poetics, and creative non-fiction to explore the history of immigration from South Asia to Europe. The project is interested in the cultural exchange that results from聽migration, and聽will unearth new knowledge about the lives of artists, workers, and refugees who have moved to Paris, France, from the Indian Subcontinent over the last two hundred years. Possible outputs include the script for a series for digital platforms based on the earliest Indian immigrants to Europe; and a series of hybrid texts that revolve around the first Indian restaurant in London and retraces the journey of cooks, recipes, spices, and servants from South Asia to Europe. Using interviews, images, recordings, and testimonies, the project also includes a digital archive that will record the struggles that immigrant workers in the food and hospitality industry face in Paris, France today鈥攁 situation that has been made worse by the pandemic.聽聽