VOICES AND BREATHS by Alice Wong and Simo Tse

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. Together with EEEBOOKS, the audio installation is now published in the form of cassette tapes with subtitles and we welcome you to join us for a listening-gathering.

Back in the 1990s. Every evening, at 7:30pm, in the kitchen of almost every Chinese restaurant in the Netherlands, the radio would tune in to 747AM: “Tchhreerrrr … SNELLE BERICHTEN NEDERLAND-CHINA: NEWS + CURRENT AFFAIRS IN CHINESE. GETTING CLOSER WITH YOU, EVERY NIGHT …”
VOICES AND BREATHS is an audiobook with subtitles that follows Chow Yiu-fai and his stories as a radio host of the only Cantonese-speaking programme for 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 space for the community.

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