Community as Archive
"The Great Her functions as a 'Living Archive,' where participatory art serves as a tool for institutional intervention. By facilitating communal writing rituals and storytelling circles, we take marginalized East Asian narratives out of private domesticity and into the UK’s public and institutional spaces.
Through Nüshu,a script born of collective female resistance, here we transform the act of 'shared witnessing' into a defiant architectural presence, ensuring that the silences I encountered in mainstream feminist archives, such as at Tate Britain, are permanently broken."
"The Great Her functions as a 'Living Archive,' where participatory art serves as a tool for institutional intervention. By facilitating communal writing rituals and storytelling circles, we take marginalized East Asian narratives out of private domesticity and into the UK’s public and institutional spaces.
Through Nüshu,a script born of collective female resistance, here we transform the act of 'shared witnessing' into a defiant architectural presence, ensuring that the silences I encountered in mainstream feminist archives, such as at Tate Britain, are permanently broken."
"As the founder of The Great Her, my leadership is rooted in 'Decolonial Pedagogy'—the practice of treating art as a site for mutual learning and community building. Beyond my individual practice, I mentor a growing collective of East Asian female artists, guiding them to translate personal memory into a shared 'repertoire' of embodied knowledge. This leadership is not merely administrative; it is a rigorous academic effort to establish a 'solidarity-in-difference,' providing the next generation of diaspora artists with the conceptual vocabulary and visibility needed to challenge fixed cultural narratives
Through The Great Her, I bridge the gap between individual inquiry and collective solidarity. It is a space where the Nüshu script is reactivated not just as an art form, but as a pedagogical tool for decolonial education and communal resilience.
Weaving Me Weaving Mum (2024 Fringe)
Producer & Artistic Lead
Award: Winner of the Asia Arts Award (Best Production, Runner-up, 2024).
Leadership: Provided the production infrastructure and creative mentorship for director/writer Yuqiu, facilitating the translation of personal maternal lineage into a multi-sensory public performance.
Integrated textile arts with performance to explore "embodied remembering," bridging the gap between domestic labor and institutional art spaces.
As a platform for creative leadership, The Great Her CIC fosters a mentorship ecosystem where East Asian female practitioners lead their own research-driven workshops, expanding the collective’s impact across diverse mediums like lacquer and textiles.