After a long winter of silence, Asian Echo returns.
First of all, I would like to offer my sincere apologies
to all the guests of Season 2, as well as to co-host Diego Jungmyeong Lim, for this delay in publication.
During the recording of season 2, I was going through a particularly dark period.
I was confronted with situations where my position as an author was made invisible.
I felt a deep disconnect in the face of certain perspectives, where the very act of creating seemed to be pushed into the background, almost treated as if it was supposed to be externalized.
This period confronted me with persistent questions:
What does it mean to create?
What is artwork?
What is an author?
Why do some people take the position of author naturally, while others must struggle to be recognized?
These questions,
along with the instability of my position as an artist,
interrupted my work, particularly for this podcast Asian Echo.
It felt risky to publish words that carried my anxiety.
But also deep down, it was difficult for me to encourage others to defend their rights when I was having difficulty defending my own.
By listening the episodes over the past two years,
I was confronted with repeating experiences for Asian women :
• the way we are perceived as docile and expected to serve others,
• the feeling of not being “legitimate” in claiming one’s rights, even in unjust situations,
• and the fact that silence produces the absence of a political discourse.
These conversations have led me, today, to decide to break my silence.
Three years ago, I chose to speak directly through Asian Echo. I stand by this decision and continue.
So here is Season 2 in full, in its unedited form.
Stay tuned,
the upcoming episodes of Asian Echo will all be released on Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Podcasts.
Asian Echo is a video podcast co-hosted with
@diegofantasy
featuring AR masks activated from the painting series “Once Upon Orientalism” by
@monayoungeunkim
Produced with the support of La Centrale Galerie Powerhouse, Atelier des Artistes en Exil, and La Gaîté Lyrique.
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