Family Embodiment Practice: Book Kin, Home Arrival

On 11 July 2026, social artist Sun Chang hosts a ritual homecoming for Family Embodiment Practice, a queer-migrant art pedagogy shaped through six years of community research. Rooted in embodied practice, collective learning and more-than-human kinship, this ritual invites participants to explore how family can be felt, remembered and reimagined beyond the inherited forms. Through art, somatic practice, reading and imagination, the ritual asks how people connect with their bodies, ancestors, materials, places and each other.

Family Embodiment Practice was developed through five monthly research rituals with 36 participants at Framer Framed between September 2025 and January 2026.

Drawing from queer and migrant perspectives, it shares lived communal wisdom and questions the frameworks that divide people into borders, classifications and racialised identities no one chooses. This afternoon, the space where the research rituals were held becomes a site of practice again. The Book Kin – Family Embodiment Practice: A Queer-Migrant Art Pedagogy for Becoming Kins – arrives home for the first time. And the Ritual Kin – a giant synthetic fabric that held the communal space of the research rituals – returns to Framer Framed.

Participants are invited into this practice of shared knowledge through a brief introduction of the research journey, movement, collective reading and sharing circle. Participants will breathe, move, draw, read, and listen together. Everyone who has ever longed to define family on their own terms, and everyone who did not know they were longing until now is warmly invited. Together, participants can explore ways to loosen inherited ideas of what family is supposed to be.

Come with whoever, human or more-than-human, you consider family. Please bring a mat if you wish to lie down during the ritual. Register here.

This event is in English. Admission is free.

The space is accessible for those using wheelchairs, strollers, or other mobility aids, with a lift available for those who cannot use the stairs. The ritual is held on a floor setting with cushions, but chairs are available if required.

Family Embodiment Practice is researched and designed by Sun Chang. Its research ritual, Family Embodiment Programme is developed in collaboration with Framer Framed. The ritual space holds co-creations made by 36 participants from the queer and migrant community: belit, Dani, Darya, Denden, Echo, Eddie, Effy, Emma, Enaam, Gaia, Hân, Isa, Jaadu, Jack, Jinxiao, Jiwon, Jiyoung, Jules, Kirti, Les Lie, Linus, Margo, Min, Minhong, Nardelly, Neo, Nikki, Nona, Qianyu, Ran, Sharon, Sonja, Sophia Wang Xue, Sophia Simensky, Sterre, and Sun.

Family Embodiment Practice: A Queer-Migrant Art Pedagogy for Becoming Kins is written, edited and designed by Sun Chang. That includes an insert of Family Embodiment Practice: Kinship Lexicon, co-authored by belit, Denden, Echo, Effy, Isa, Jaadu, Jack, Jiwon, Jiyoung, Jules, Less Li, Neo, Nona, Qianyu, Sophia, Sun and Zaynab. The digital publication is Open Access under the CC BY-NC 4.0 License, hosted by www.sun-chang.com/FEP.

Research Pedagogical advised by: Neo Musangi and Sophia Simensky. Academic Supervision for Research Texts by Ann Laenen and Kristien Hens. Publication Peer-Reviewed by Jiwon Kim, Less Li, Yu Xiao, and Zoénie Liwen Deng, through a communal gathering hosted by the Nature of Rotterdam Residency.

The research project is supported by Amsterdams Fonds voor de Kunst and het Cultuurfonds.