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IMMI


This gallery video that IMMI have created is an introductory tutorial to their cultural identity. To access credits, please go to: www.immiimmiimmi.com Password: IMEMI

     
IMMI, Bread Masks [We provide masks. To hide your visual identity from the judgemental eyes of others. But, you can eat your anonymity.], 2019, GIF, Facilitated and directed by Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, Photographed by Emmaline Zanelli, Baked by Andy Nowell, Banjo Weatherald, and Ivy Weatherald. IMMI, Baggage [Before entering our events, please check that your baggage is unattended. We expect bags inside bags, inside bags, inside bags of cultural baggage.], 2019, GIF, Facilitated and directed by Kaspar Schmidt Mumm. IMMI, Knead [This is the process of kneading our dough. Each mask is prepared by hand by our team of bakers], 2019, GIF, Facilitated and directed by Kaspar Schmidt Mumm, Photographed by Emmaline Zanelli, Performed by Karlien Van Rooyen. Installation by Koruna Schmidt Mumm.
 




“An unidentified community living in the cracks of society are filling their fissure with a new cultural identity.”    
            IMMI are reacting to societal ideas of multiculturalism. Concerned that tradition is falling through the cracks created by globalisation; they are manifesting cultural liberation through the invention of hybrid traditions.
            They plan to weaponize their identity against an onslaught of ignorance by embellishing their traditions with archival legitimacy. By appropriating the visual language of high-art and anthropology, IMMI are interrogating the boundaries of cultural legitimacy.
            Collective art making builds the foundations of IMMI’s folklore. By highlighting parallels between recognisable cultural practices and tropes - for example; IMMI argue that the Eucharist breaking of bread mirrors the border security screening in airports - they aim to blur the rigid borders of ritual and ceremony. They are provoking us to take charge of our own identity by revealing the latent potential of our cultural baggage.
– Artist Statement




IMMI, IMMI [A short film that divulges three stages of assimilation: Interpretation, practice, trance], 2017, Video, 8:58mins, Videography. Editing by Jerome Williams.



By facilitating their community to create the lore of a new subculture; IMMI aim to blur the borders of cultural identity and tradition. Often compared to Dadaism, Surrealism, Situationism and Fluxus movements of art, IMMI’s activations offer access to cross cultural dialogue through relational performance in an open studio. Collaborative performances and community activations build the foundations of IMMI’s folklore and cultural identity.
             Kaspar Schmidt Mumm is the primary facilitator of the work. Kaspar started the project in 2017, as a reaction to societal assumptions of culture. Born in Germany and raised in Adelaide with Pakistani, Colombian and Canadian heritage, Kaspar is a third generation immigrant. Both sides of his family have immigrated for three generations. And so, he wants to develop an artistic language that crosses the borders of his cultural boundaries.




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BUNDOORA HOMESTEAD ART CENTRE 20.11.20–27.03.21

This exhibition acknowledges the Traditional Owners of the land on which it was developed, the Wurundjeri and neighbouring Boonwurrung Peoples of the Kulin Nation, and pays respect to their Elders past and present. The project also acknowledges the complex history the Wurundjeri People have had with the Bundoora Homestead since it was built on their occupied land in 1899. Sovereignty was never ceded. In addition, the project acknowledges Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Traditional Owners across the many lands of what is now known as Australia, and the many First Nations Traditional Owners on all the lands across the world where this website may be accessed and viewed.