Borrowing some fairytale storytelling techniques and folktales from Arabic and Vietnamese mythologies, history-making and investigating family archives, three fictional characters Admiral (Sedawi), Azahar (AlKayal) and Lazy_Fairy (Lương) investigate and share intimately their personal experience of the real “fairytale” of “welcome culture” in Germany, discuss strategies to survive against institutional powers, and propose an intersectional feminist lens to create fairytales which serve emancipation and transformation, with the pondering of how to continue to build a sustainable and supporting system for POC/FLINTA* in exile. The work proposes a collective method to converse and harvest between the characters in a real yet fictional meeting point, where the three have encountered each other: the volcano. It also references the sculpture "Tanz aus dem Vulkan” (1988), Ludmila Seefried-Matějková and Nettelbeckplatz, Berlin – a focal point of the yearly demonstration of the International Women’s Day (March 8^th – and critically interrogates the colonial past, imprinted on the present day.


From time to time, Admiral, Azahar and Lazy_Fairy offer visitors the chance to step into their reality with VR glasses to embody the fourth character and immerse themselves in their mixed-reality stories. ︎