Audio: Morgan Sung
Visuals: Xia Rondeau
Asian American Gothic was a collaborative piece I did with another Asian American female artist, Morgan Sung while attending Emerson College. The video you see here features an excerpt from the audio track by Morgan over the visuals I created.
Using grotesque and overwhelming imagery our goal was to create a feeling of anxiety and confusion to reflect the experience of Asian Americans. We wanted it to be a statement about Orientalism and Yellow Peril. Taking images from various perspectives and points in Asian American history my goal was to represent the Asian American experience as broad, complicated, and ongoing.
This video was projected onto a 18’x20’ mirrored wall to create a space in which imagery and sound would be overbearing. We projected the real house used in the painting “American Gothic” by Grant Wood (1930) to relate the Asian American experience to the American experience as a whole.
This is the full audio from the project. Audio by Morgan Sung