Exinclusivity - Space of Inclusion is a site-specific multi-media installation about migration experiences translated through music, video, storytelling and performance. Working with several refugee support organizations in the Bay Area, the project explores how cultural expressions such as singing and writing can support the process of psychological and physical survival throughout experiences of displacement.

Building on a two-year creative relationship with Kala through Print Public, Exinclusivity – Space of Inclusion evolves from Taro Hattori’s current and past projects, large-scale sculptural works made from everyday materials like cardboard, drywall, and bricks, videos exploring belonging, and participatory experiments about political challenges and social conflict.

Sholeh Asgary

Shaghayegh Cyrous

Sherab Dolma

Robin Gurung

Jyoti Gurung

Project Collaborator:

Byron Au Yong (composer)

ARTogether

Asian Refugee United

Bay Area Bhutanese Youth

Burma Refugee Family Network (BRFN)

The Center for Empowering Refugees and Immigrants (CERI)

East Bay Refugee and Immigrant Forum

Amy Lam

Maw Shein Win

California College of the Arts

Christy Chan

California Arts Council

Zellerbach Family Foundation

Meyer Sound

To encourage the visitors to be self-reflective about their own experience, a table space was set with the following questions.

Having lived in a restricted refugee camp so long, one of the participants
described his condition as that of a bird whose wings had been clipped. 

   Have you ever felt like

      a bird in a cage,

      a bird who can't fly or

      a bird who can't perch?

   Please tell us about such experience of yours.