The Ere team members come from the fields of arts, anthropology, and design. We live, research and work between places, languages, and disciplines. Transit through physical places like bus stations, airports, and waiting rooms forces us to be present and reorient to the multiple worlds that can exist at once. We observe the air and water as connective, in-between elements of which we are a part. Even in our dreams, we go through tunnels and passages leading to (un)familiar, shifting spaces. We invite a shared attentiveness to the in-between where intervals, encounters with the unexpected, and lapses of meaning become ways of wayfaring.
We invite people from diverse backgrounds and different fields to engage with this idea through a variety of perspectives and formats including micro comics, artworks/Illustrations, photo essays, written text, mixed media/collage, and recipes/assignments/interactive items. The theme is broad and open to interpretation, but we are especially interested in hearing about diasporic experiences, navigating multiple cultures or generations, moving to and from peripheral communities, and the experience of remote communication.
This text was simultaneously written during a cloudy 0°C day on the border, on a bus travelling from Skopje to Athens; a lightly sunny 15°C day in Auckland; a clear 2°C day in Chengdu; a snowy -3°C day in Oshawa; a sunny 7°C day at an airport in Guangzhou; and a cloudy 4°C day in Mavrovo.