Representing the Ephemeral, audio documentation

wen yau
July 9, 2019


Creative Access Description

Digital audio recording of a conversation between two people that opens up to include the audience about midway through. The first speaker, the host, has a masculine, mostly flat voice, while the second speaker has a feminine, calm, and slightly delicate sounding voice. Topics covered include artist wen yau's PhD research on auto ethnography and civil rights movements in Hong Kong, the performative act of protest, embodied memory and the challenges of representing intangible artwork in the archive, the then-unfolding 2019 Anti-Extradition Bill protests, the perspective of folks in the Hong Kong diaspora, and various related cultural and linguistic topics of interest.

Description

Audio documentation of artist wen yau in conversation with grunt Archives Manager Dan Pon following wen yau's performance lecture, Representing the Ephemeral, for Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week.

Identifier

2019.0709 REP A001

Extent

1 mp3 file, 01:07:46

Language

English, Cantonese

Artist

wen yau

Technician

Sebnem Ozpeta

Transcriber

Dan Pon, Jamie Loh

Interviewer

Dan Pon

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