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Adding a touch of character & history to my outfit with this silk cuff from @forbiddenhill . The Ban Zu medallion is a contemporary rendition of lattice motifs found on Chinese ceramics traded during 14th century ✨. I like how it comes with interchangeable silk where I can change to other colours to match my mood & outfits! #forbiddenhill
｜Ze and Zir｜
今年受邀參與韓國 Asia Culture Center 的展覽《Solidarity as Spore》，主題為各種形式的愛（Love: in all its forms and inclusivity) 。2019年，台灣成為亞洲第一個同性婚姻合法化的國家，同一年，Ze 與 Zir 在 2019 年正式收錄於牛津英語辭典，將特指單一性別的 He or she 取代成中性的代名詞。作品也類比成華文的「也」，取下「他」或者「她」的性別部首符號，作為這次創作的核心理念。
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二元社會性別是所有性別問題的根源，當人們選擇成為伴侶、選擇衣著、選擇以一種特定形象生活時，捨棄掉性別的標籤就可以超脫目前所有的問題，我們不需要透過刻板印象來建立自我價值，自己可以隨意建立個人識別象徵而不需要參考模範，滿足任何有限的想像空間。
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作品呈現三幅動態視覺系列稿，同時在垂直並排的三面螢幕重複播放，它們各自擁有不同的主題。打破性別刻板印象，沒有男孩應該要做什麼，女孩應該要做什麼，呈現更自由的性別氣質與性向。女人不用一定要穿高跟鞋，男人也可以喜歡化妝。
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最後，一個彩色的玻璃球穿梭在各個畫面中，打破界線劃破三個螢幕的彩色玻璃球，劃破時間與空間。
｜Sydney Sie / Zen Yun Zon,
｜Ze and Zir, 2020. Three-channel
｜video, color, silent, 2 min.
｜Commissioned by Asia Culture
｜Center; courtesy of the artist.
｜Special Thanks: 親愛的 Aaron Nieh (✾♛‿♛) 聶永真 Aaron Nieh / Elise Chen
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If there were no genders, it should not cause any troubles to say “ze has loved cars since childhood”, “ze dreams to become a ballet dancer”, or “ze loves zir deeply and wants to spend zir life with zir”.
Gender binary is the source of all gender troubles. If people could choose to become partners, how to dress and how to present themselves in life without gender labels, then we no longer need to establish self-value by conforming to gender stereotypes. An individual could build a personal image freely without referring to gender roles and instead according to their unlimited imagination.
Taiwan became the first country in Asia to legalize same-sex marriage in 2019. In the same year, the Oxford English Dictionary update included gender-neutral third-person pronouns Ze and Zir. With a similar spirit, we experiment with removing the radicals of Chinese characters “他(he)”/“她(she)”, reinventing the character “也” as the potential gender-neutral pronoun and using it as the core concept of this creative project.
The work consists of three moving posters, which will be displayed in loop on three aligned, vertical screens, each with a different theme. We incorporate elements of gender stereotypes in these images while seeking to break the traditional gender framework through a visual dynamic, as well as to discover more freedom in gender expression. There is no “should”; women don’t need to wear heels and men can enjoy putting on makeup.
Lastly, a colorful glass ball travels through the images on the screens, metaphorically crossing the boundaries of time and space.
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● Solidarity as Spore
● Dates: May 14–October 25, 2020 (opening May 13)
● Venue: Asia Culture Center (https://new.acc.go.kr), Gwangju, South Korea
● Organized by: Asia Culture Institute (http://aci-k.kr) and Asia Culture Canter
● Artistic director: Kim Sung Won
● Contributing curators: Bojana Piškur, Vali Mahlouji, Museo de la Solidaridad
Salvador Allende, Sulki and Min, Goto Tetsuya, Kim Seong Hee, and Seo Dongjin
● Overarching theme: history of Non-Aligned Movement and its relevance to the
contemporary artistic practice in Asia
Section Participants
● Bae Minkee (Seoul, South Korea)
● Gideon Jamie (Singapore)
● So Hashizume (Tokyo, Japan)
● Saki Ho (Hong Kong, China)
● Hong Eunjoo (Seoul, South Korea)
● Sueh Li (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)
● Scarlett Xin Meng (Shanghai, China)
● Rikako Nagashima (Tokyo, Japan)
● Nguyen Giang (Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam)
● Januar Rianto (Jakarta, Indonesia)
● Shin In-ah (Seoul, South Korea)
● Sydney Sie and Zen Yun Zon (Taipei, Taiwan)
● Yui Takada (Tokyo, Japan)
When I first started out on YouTube with my best friend, we created some characters because we were only a 2 people team. Peter Papadum was one of these characters and the storyline is that PP and JianHao have a long history of banter and putting each other in tough spots. This was a time where we couldn’t afford to have a team or pay other actors yet. Among other characters, Ridhwan also plays other characters like an awkward Chinese boy Ren Yi Xiang but I understand the difference. PP adopts caricature-like qualities that exploit racial stereotypes, while Ren Yi Xiang merely appears as a name. Furthermore, Chinese people in SG do not deal with the same oppression as other minority races. I’ve never meant to put a certain race under a bad light. After some reflection, I realized it was insensitive and we could have done it better. I will no longer have that character anymore.
I try my best to include as many races in my videos, among the characters, we have a Malay principal, a Chinese cleaner, an Indian teacher. I do not give actors roles based on their color of their skin. I give it to them based on their ability to portray a role. However, now, as I grow and learn more, I will be more sensitive to how I portray certain races, and I apologize for not understanding this implications of this and I will not make the same mistake again.
I realise now that to enact change to dismantle racism it has to begin at home, and with those who have a voice. As an influencer and content creator with a following, I have a responsibility to educate my young and impressionable audiences. To the Singaporean minorities I’ve hurt with any of my jokes, I apologize.
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10 MOST INFLUENTIAL ASIAN SUPERHEROES FROM MARVEL & DC
There are a lot of comic book fans out there, and many of them are Asian. Yet historically, superheroes of Asian descent have been a rare thing in the Marvel & DC universes.
With movies like Captain America Civil War, Batman vs Superman and Deadpool already having broken several box office records this year, superhero movies are only getting more popular.
And you know, you have the first female solo superhero film in quite some time coming out in 2017 with DC’s Wonder Woman, and the first black solo superhero film in some time coming out in 2018 with Marvel’s Black Panther. Makes me wonder when we’ll see the first Asian solo superhero film on the big screen.
But we’re a long ways off because first, we actually need a successful and popular Asian superhero in the comics, and thus far, it’s not clear if we even have one.
Well you be the judge.
1. Jubilee (Marvel)
- arguably the most well-known Asian superhero
- a Chinese-American girl born in LA
- X-Men’s youngest member in the early 1990s
2. Shang Chi (Marvel)
- created in the 1970s, a period in time where people were crazy for Bruce Lee and anything Kung Fu related
- the premiere Asian character of the 70s
- born in China
- son & nemesis of the infamous, wealthy international Chinese crime lord Fu Manchu.
- has no superpowers, but is an expert in all forms of martial arts
- unfortunately as stereotypically Asian as you can get
3. Sunfire (Marvel)
- Japan’s premiere superhero
- just like Shang Chi, an Asian character of overt Asian symbolisms.
- real name, Shiro Yoshida
- born to a mother who suffered radiation poisoning (Hiroshima atomic bomb)
- became a mutant possessing solar radiation powers
4. Atom (DC)
- real name, Ryan Choi
- super smart & gets good grades
- can be quite the ladies’ man
- from Hong Kong
- protege of original Atom, Ray Palmer
- the Atom is a super hero who can shrink to a subatomic size (like Ant-Man)
- pretty noteworthy because first time an Asian guy took over the mantle of an existing superhero with an already established fan base
- too bad he only appeared in 78 issues before being killed off by the assassin, Deathstroke
- his death became the subject of racial controversy as he had been one of the few high profile Asian characters in the DC Universe
5. Batgirl (DC)
- real name, Cassandra Cain
- she’s a halfie, with a white dad and a Chinese mom
- adopted by Bruce Wayne, aka Batman.
- under Batman’s watch, she became Batgirl
- some refer to her as the Asian Batgirl
6. Psylocke (Marvel)
- real name is Elizabeth “Betsy” Braddock, originally a blonde haired girl from Essex, Great Britain
- a mutant with vast telepathic and telekinetic powers and a long time X-Man.
- had her soul transferred into the body of a Japanese female ninja
- in X-Men: Apocalypse movie she is played by Olivia Munn (Is this another example of whitewashing in Hollywood?)
7. Ms. Marvel (Marvel)
- real name, Kamala Khan, the second Ms. Marvel who made her debut in 2013
- a Pakistani Muslim teenage girl living in New Jersey from a very traditional Pakistani family.
- is an inhuman (a race of superhumans)
- her power makes her able to stretch her body in unimaginable ways
8. Silk (Marvel)
- real name Cindy Moon, a Korean American girl.
- Spiderman was bitten by a radioactive spider but what we didn’t know was, so did another student
9. Hulk (Marvel)
- in 2015 we were introduced to a Korean Hulk.
- real name, Amadeus Cho, a Korean American
- this new Hulk fights gamma monsters while traveling cross country with his sister Maddy
10. Superman
- DC one upped Marvel by making one of, if not, the most iconic superhero of all time Asian.
- Superman is now Chinese!
- a 17 year old kid from Shanghai named Kenan Kong
- you can imagine the outrage this has caused as ‘superman is supposed to be white’ and American
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