Quick Glance
Slow Dining: A game where lovers go through 7 dishes, each requires a different “sense" to taste, thus, a different orientation to intimacy.
Slow Dating (kids version): Spinning off “speed-dating”, this is a game where strangers go through steps of becoming intimate while challenging socializing norms.
Participatory Feedback Party with our multi-generational community to create a Dialogue Game.
Vietnam War - An Escape Game. Drawing from the concept of collaborative puzzle-solving rooms and immersive installations to story-tell a decolonial narrative of the Vietnam War.
Interactive seminar on Decolonizing Love (kids version).
Vietnam War - An Escape Game. Drawing from the concept of collaborative puzzle-solving rooms and immersive installations to story-tell a decolonial narrative of the Vietnam War.
Interactive seminar on Decolonizing Love (kids version).
Immersive exploration of Lâm Đồng K’Ho indigenous community to suggest branding direction – a project initiated by the Southern Institute of Ecology.
A “sushi hug" - in collaboration with education partners - Studii Academi to design games on peace and intimacy lingo for children.
“Decolonizing Love" - a guest lecture at the University of Washington to incorporate research and art in disrupting popular narratives of love.
“Archiving Love: A Work Always In Progress" - an immersive and participatory art installation.
Từ Từ’s friends
ZINNERS’ FAIR
“Hội chợ của Zinners – Zinners' Fair 2024 là một sự kiện giao lưu, kết bạn, buôn bán linh đình giữa những nghệ sĩ, nhà xuất bản độc lập và cộng đồng đam mê zine được tổ chức tại TP.HCM. Với mong muốn giới thiệu, quảng bá nhiều hơn về văn hoá zine nói riêng, và hình thức xuất bản độc lập nói chung, Hội chợ của Zinners 2024 hy vọng sẽ là "dấu chấm cảm" cho cộng đồng đầy phong phú này, tự tin phát triển mạnh mẽ hơn trong tương lai!”
Let’s talk about love:
“What’s love got to do with
MAKING A FUSS”
One night during "Making A Fuss PROJECATION", we invited more women over to have an intimate sharing circle about their fusses.
No matter how small the space, each act of voicing, can eventually form a counter-discourse.
We are testing out the concept Projecation (Project + Vacation), coined by Shotaro Yagi. It is the organic structure that enabled us to experience, thus, created the zine "MAKING A FUSS".
At Từ Từ, we organize with an emphasis on empathy instead of "event planning", compassion instead of being "cool", and create what's meaningful instead of glorifying aesthetics.
Projecation
- Coined by Shotaro Yagi and made into a
methodology by Kitty.
- A Project + Vacation: using intimate and self-actualizing activities to build a project.
- A Project + Vacation: using intimate and self-actualizing activities to build a project.
Reasons to test out projecation:
- Bored and dissatisfied with business as-usual
- Shared belief: projects can be more human, self-actualizing, authentic, and loving
- Test Kitty’s insight: intimacy (shared self-disclosure) is a critical part of self-actualizing and self-organizing projects
Relational Activism:
“working with empathy, compassion, the ability to connect and form networks, with an understanding that sustained change happens through relationships” (source)
Fuss: Advocacy for the expression of pain and stop the justification of sufferings
Historically, the phrase "stop making a fuss" is often used abusively by the ‘authority’ as a way to say, "You are wrong. Please stop creating drama on unnecessary things: Stop. Fussing."
In this project, we challenge such oppression by giving language to this fuss-practice while championing stories of making fusses (i.e., caring and drawing attention to what matters)
- Bored and dissatisfied with business as-usual
- Shared belief: projects can be more human, self-actualizing, authentic, and loving
- Test Kitty’s insight: intimacy (shared self-disclosure) is a critical part of self-actualizing and self-organizing projects
Relational Activism:
“working with empathy, compassion, the ability to connect and form networks, with an understanding that sustained change happens through relationships” (source)
Fuss: Advocacy for the expression of pain and stop the justification of sufferings
Historically, the phrase "stop making a fuss" is often used abusively by the ‘authority’ as a way to say, "You are wrong. Please stop creating drama on unnecessary things: Stop. Fussing."
In this project, we challenge such oppression by giving language to this fuss-practice while championing stories of making fusses (i.e., caring and drawing attention to what matters)
Slow "Dating" -
“Hẹn Hò” Từ Từ
Game | Community - Social Event
As people who appreciate depth and are somewhat... afraid of intense social interactions, we created a GAME where everyone can connect gently and open up sincerely.
x An original game for self-discovery and building a shared vocabulary of connecting
x Note: Not actually about romance
x Participatory & co-creative
As people who appreciate depth and are somewhat... afraid of intense social interactions, we created a GAME where everyone can connect gently and open up sincerely.
x An original game for self-discovery and building a shared vocabulary of connecting
x Note: Not actually about romance
x Participatory & co-creative
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