#01. The Object Stories of British Chinese Women
Exploring the intergenerational material worlds of British Chinese women.
This project is centred on the voices of British Chinese women and narrating their subjectivities of migratory experiences and womanhood through their personal objects. This project was undertaken as a part of a PhD research project at the University of Westminster (2020). In this project, I was interested in situating the embodied voices of British Chinese women through their materials worlds.
British Chinese women over two generations took part in the Object-Stories project where they identified personal possessions significant to them. Drawing on the inner lives of these narratives, the women participated in a series of art workshops to visualise the journeys of their objects and themselves. Alongside these art workshops, an eight-month bi-lingual Cantonese-English art school ran at Haringey Chinese Community, London where first generation women shared their stories and experiences through art making and collective making.
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^02.Over 30 women across London participated in the art school, workshops and interviews. Their stories emerged with infinite humour, agency and desires. To see the work and hear their stories, click here for the Object Stories project: www.objectstories.co.uk
IMAGE REF: 01. The Women’s Group at the bi-lingual art school, Haringey Chinese Community Centre, London.
02. The Object Stories participants celebrating at the Project Opening Event at University of Westminster, London.
FURTHER READING:Click here> for a critical analysis entitled ‘Dressing Up, Dressing Down! Situating Identities and Negotiating Otherness Through the Bodies of British Chinese Women’ published by Journal of the British Association for Chinese Studies, Vol. 9 (1), January 2019.