Diasporama Dead Air

An average of 60000 people emigrated from Hong Kong each year in early 1990s An absolutely personal and biased sampling of this diaspora from an insideroutsider perspective just before the 1997 handover Based on the personal experiences of individuals from Hong Kong in 1990s Diasporama is an experimental documentary that addresses issues of the diasporic condition In a series of intimate interviews that explore the relationship of the personal and the political Yau Ching confronts notions of nationhood identity and postcolonialism Inserting her own face and voice as a form of mediation the artist herself becomes one of the subjects