Shabaikai: Memory Tiles
About
Shabaikai is an ongoing, collaborative project that explores themes of identity, memory and physical place. Viewers are invited to become participants by contributing their own memory snapshot to the archives. Snapshots are explorations of how a physical place can influence, hold and create memory, and how this memory goes on to play a part in identity formation. Shabaikai was created in 2006 by Anna Guiffre and Jordy Jensky. Shabaikai is the Pomo Indian word for "long snake," and also what these indigenous peoples called the Russian River, which runs through Sonoma County in Northern California. Shabaikai not only represents a physical place, but it also symbolizes how memory and identity move organically through the physical realm, much as a snake navigates the forest floor.
Main
Contribute
Method
Contact