Narratives & Counter Narratives is a moving image work that collages original and found footage from 1905 to 2022, depicting Asian women in popular culture. Snippets include Puccini's Madama Butterfly (1905) in Frédéric Mitterrand's 1995 film adaptation with Ying Huang; Shanghai Express (1932) with Anna May Wong, directed by Josef Von Sternberg; Chanel Miller reading her victim impact statement, uploaded in 2019; Annabel Chong's 5-1-95 daytime TV appearance, uploaded in 2019; Alex Garland's Ex Machina (2014) with Sonoya Mizuno; Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket (1987) with Ngoc Le; and surveillance footage that shows the 2021 Atlanta shooting suspect leaving a massage parlour. The victims were: Delaina Ashley Yaun, Xiaojie Tan, Daoyou Feng, Paul Andre Michels, Hyun Jung Grant, Suncha Kim, Soon Chung Park, and Yong Ae Yue.
Commissioned by Cabbage Arts via the Cabbage Resilience Programme
& Supported by Creative Scotland
Featuring the song Darkest Hour by Sevdaliza
with sound edits by Hannan Jones
Premiered 2022 in duo show ‘Skin Flicks’ with MV Brown
French Street Studios // Strangefield Glasgow
Narratives and Counter Narratives have been screened at:
- Sex Work: A Cultural History, at the Bundeskunsthalle. April - Oct 2026, Bonn, Germany
- Floating in Ecosystems w/ Queer East, curated by Indigo Korres, at Rio Cinema. May 2025, London
- SQIFF (Scottish Queer International Festival), at the Centre for Contemporary Art. October 2024, Glasgow
- Working Girls! at Gallery 46 Whitechapel. July - August 2024, London
- (S)exhibition at the Museum of Sex Objects. April - May 2024, London
moving image
9min 9sec
glasgow, 2022