Alessandra Cianetti and Xavier de Sousa of Performingborders I LIVE organized this opportunity for Chi Yin to do her performative reading and be in thoughtful conversation with curator Annie Jael Kwan about hidden (family and national) histories, counter narratives, embodied trauma and performative acts, intended and unintended, at the Attenborough Centre for the Creative Arts in Brighton on March 19.
Annie also presented her important collaborative work archiving performance art practice by Asian artists and making their documentation available in the UK.
Thanks are in order to Annie for the invitation to this session. Thanks too to Dr Anna Marazuela Kim for chairing the stimulating Q&A and asking some sharp, poignant questions too.
For those in the American Southwest: the documentation of the reading and conversation on these topics will be traveling to Nogales, near the US-Mexico border, in April and screened there.
Magnum Photos Culture+Conflict
Thank you to Constance Kostrevski for the photograph.
This performative reading was first devised on a residency with Docking Station in Amsterdam in 2017.
You can find more at: https://www.magnumphotos.com/events/event/sim-chi-yin-conversation-annie-jael-kwan/?fbclid=IwAR0COYbt1xkdgv38gLIpT2OnDoXEyodyfdtrt5deTqDuujjLpG9QJhtS76A