VOICES AND BREATHS by Alice Wong and Simo Tse
introduction and listening session with Simo Tse and Marius Schwarz at 6.30pm
Friday April 12, 6pm
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.
Read it now!
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