“Inner Chamber Talk: Objects from Home”
SUNDAY SEPTEMBER 19th, 2:30 PM - 4:00 PM, immediately following CORE workshop
Facilitated by Boram Jeong and Chad Shomura
VENUE: RedLine Contemporary Art Center/ 2350 Arapahoe Street, Denver CO 80205
"Inner Chamber" is a pop-up installation, made up of objects that migrants from Asia brought from home. The installation creates an intimate space in the corner of the exhibit room, in reminiscence of inner chambers (閨房,內房 or 내방) that provided women in premodern China and Korea a place of literary and subversive imagination. The roundtable discussion thematizes our affective attachments to the 'objects from home,' traveling across time and space.
Presented as part of inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE exhibition. The theme inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE captures the struggles of Asians and Asian Americans to survive and thrive in the face of strong anti-Asian sentiment. Asians and Asian Americans are alternately made invisible and hypervisible through stereotypes such as “model minorities,” “honorary whites,”“perpetual foreigners,” and “enemy aliens.” Yet, Asian America is remarkably complex due to cultural diversity, various migration routes, and different socioeconomic circumstances.
inVISIBLE | hyperVISIBLE will showcase Asian and Asian American artists, scholars, performers, and community organizers from different ethnic, gender, and geographic backgrounds.
Image courtesy of Yong Soon Min
