The outdoor evening projection of my most recent participatory multimedia project "We Were Here: Unmasking Yellow Peril" was held in in Flushing, Queens on June 27th, 2021.
The 80 minute bi-lingual (Chinese/English) projection was a culmination of Asian American stories collected in Flushing over the last few months.
I’m so grateful to all the Asian American storytellers who participated and shared their personal stories about community safety, resilience, resistance in the face of white supremacy and increased anti-Asian violence. Asian immigrants as well as Asian Americans who are 2nd, 3rd, 4th and even 5th generation in this country shared their own stories about labor, immigration and discrimination.
Thank you to Asian American Arts Alliance (A4) for their collaboration and to Flushing Town Hall for hosting the storytelling event. Thanks to The Illuminator for doing the projection and for their tech support!
Check out BronxNet’s news segment about the Flushing outdoor evening projection event - CLICK HERE
More about the Project:
“We Were Here: Unmasking Yellow Peril'' is an ongoing multimedia participatory project inviting Asian Americans to participate in reclaiming, and reasserting our own narratives, through telling our families’ stories of immigration, labor, discrimination, and resilience. In the wake of the deaths of multiple Asian women massage workers in Georgia on March 16th 2021, the American public has suddenly turned their focus to the rise of anti-Asian violence. We all know this racialized and gendered violence didn’t just start with the pandemic.
Asian Americans were invited to submit their stories - written, images, video, and/or audio. Participants were encouraged to submit family photographs, images of ephemera, and other heirlooms along with their story.
The projection was a culmination of stories collected in Flushing, Queens between April and June 2021.