"How do everyday objects tell our stories?" with Dr Denise Kwan
What stories are hidden in everyday objects and why is telling these stories so important? In this episode we speak with Dr Denise Kwan, an artist, writer, and art lecturer whose project ‘Object-Stories of British Chinese Women’ tells the journeys of diasporic Chinese women in the UK through their everyday objects.
The project invited women to present an object of personal significance to explore how questions of belonging and identity are entangled in the most everyday of things. Participants talked about their lives through everyday objects and drawing on these stories as inspiration, the women attended art workshops to explore ways of visualising the significance of their possessions.
Between their speech and the artwork, we are presented with a peephole into the multiple lives of their objects. These are their object-stories of British Chinese women.
Denise is in conversation with Tiffany Leung, community producer for the Manchester Museum’s China Culture Gallery, due to open in 2022. Developed in close collaboration with The University of Manchester’s Manchester China Institute and local communities, the Lee Kai Hung Chinese Culture Gallery will be dedicated to building understanding and empathy; exploring the rich cultural heritage and historic links between Manchester and China.
Season 2: Episode 1 Transcript
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Manchester Museum is on a mission to become the most imaginative, caring and inclusive museum in the world, and in this podcast we will share open and honest conversations with special guests, which will inform, entertain and inspire.
Through these conversations we hope to reframe what it means for museums to care, and explore how we can build understanding, empathy and love for our world and each other.
Find out more about the Manchester Museum:
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