Natalie Quan Yau Tso
Nothing Happened Here 呢度冇事發生
21
September 2022
21
Sep
2022
14
Oct 2022
Gallery 3
Nothing Happened Here 呢度冇事發生
Natalie Quan Yau Tso
21
September 2022
21
September
2022
14
October 2022
Gallery 3
In Nothing Happened Here 呢度冇事發生, the artist eats a substance made from a failed recipe of 腸粉 (steamed rice rolls) while singing and reciting public memories of the 2019 movement in Hong Kong. She feeds, recites, chews, sings, eats, spits and repeats simultaneously. Every word that passes through her throat was collected from the voices of Hong Kongers across online comments, lyrics and an anonymously written history book. The substance passes in and out of her mouth as Hong Kong’s political trauma corrodes in between bodies and societies. The performance traverses through conflicting feelings of self-censorship, protection from violence, grief, fear and refusal to accept the erasure of Hong Kong. This work asks: What does diaspora mean when place and culture is being erased from afar? How can a body become an instrument of anti-erasure amidst cultural cleansing?
Exhibition documented by Teagan Ramsay.
In Nothing Happened Here 呢度冇事發生, the artist eats a substance made from a failed recipe of 腸粉 (steamed rice rolls) while singing and reciting public memories of the 2019 movement in Hong Kong. She feeds, recites, chews, sings, eats, spits and repeats simultaneously. Every word that passes through her throat was collected from the voices of Hong Kongers across online comments, lyrics and an anonymously written history book. The substance passes in and out of her mouth as Hong Kong’s political trauma corrodes in between bodies and societies. The performance traverses through conflicting feelings of self-censorship, protection from violence, grief, fear and refusal to accept the erasure of Hong Kong. This work asks: What does diaspora mean when place and culture is being erased from afar? How can a body become an instrument of anti-erasure amidst cultural cleansing?
Natalie Quan Yau Tso
Natalie Tso’s practice investigates bodily boundaries as metaphors for political boundaries through sculptures, installations and performances. She often performs acts driven by embodied knowledge including cleansing, eating and peeling that activate bodily dispersions.