Song of the Wind: From Making Together — Sea, Migration, Labour, and the Work of Living Together documents and reflects on a process of field research and artistic collaboration undertaken between 2022 and 2026, beginning in Wando, Korea, and continuing through the Philippines, Vietnam, Taiwan, Indonesia, and Portugal. Rather than presenting these places as separate case studies for testing a single model of collaboration, the book connects them as a route along which questions emerging in one place move, encounter different histories, environments, and relationships, and are transformed.
The book does not present the project and its collaborations as a success story or a completed model. Instead, it traces how relationships begin in different places, who determines the conditions of participation and responsibility, and which forms of labour and existence remain unseen in the process. Through this inquiry, it reconsiders the responsibility and care required by the act of “making together” within the interconnected contexts of the sea, migration, labour, and ecology.
Drawing on the experiences of artists, curators, researchers, local residents, activists, and migrant workers, as well as the conflicts, limitations, and changes that emerged through their encounters, the book understands collaboration not as the achievement of consensus but as an ongoing practice of negotiating relationships and sharing responsibility. It also extends the scope of collaboration beyond human relationships to include seas and rivers, coasts and forests, migrating forms of life, and the environments in which people live, asking what conditions are necessary for different beings to live together.