Exhibition Opening – Voices and Breaths / EEEBOOKS
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17.02.2024
Alice Wong, Simo Tse, & Marius Schwarz
📋 Programme
14.00 - 15.00 (sign-up required with link in bio): Artist presentation & conversation by Simo Tse (Voices and Breaths) and Marius Schwarz (eeebooks)
15:00 - 18:00 (walk-in): Tea and tape-listening
The project Voices and Breaths by story designer Alice Wong and artist-researcher Simo Tse follows radio host Chow Yiu-fai (b. 1961, Hong Kong) and his personal narratives surrounding Snelle Berichten Nederland-China, a Cantonese-speaking programme for Chinese-speaking migrants in the Netherlands. Initially set up to bridge language and cultural barriers, the radio programme had become a staple for information and entertainment as well as a para-social communal space. Together with eeebooks, the audio installation is now republished in the form of cassette tapes with subtitles and we welcome you to join us for a listening-gathering on Feb 17, 2024.
Voices and Breaths (2022) was first presented at Het Nieuwe Instituut, as part of the Open Archief 3.0 exhibition (Oct 28, 2022 - Apr 10, 2023). It is supported by Open Archief, together with three Dutch heritage institutions [Nieuwe Instituut, Bleed en Geluid and the International Institute of Social History (IISH)]. We would also like to acknowledge VPRO for granting us permission to include copyrighted materials from Hemelse Modder.