{"id":21369,"date":"2021-08-11T13:53:45","date_gmt":"2021-08-11T20:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/?p=21369"},"modified":"2021-09-02T09:18:17","modified_gmt":"2021-09-02T16:18:17","slug":"why-this-word-looks-at-issues-of-female-labour-writing-identity-through-art","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nexusnewspaper.com\/newsite\/2021\/08\/11\/why-this-word-looks-at-issues-of-female-labour-writing-identity-through-art\/","title":{"rendered":"Why This Word<\/em> looks at issues of female labour, writing, identity through art"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whether it\u2019s a song, novel, or screenplay, nothing brings out its creator’s thoughts and emotions like the craft of writing. And this month at Deluge Contemporary Art, Jo Ying Peng has curated an exhibit dedicated to deconstructing the act of writing as a way to shape identity. Why This Word<\/em> runs until Saturday, August 21 and is partially a product of Peng having time to research because of the pandemic.<\/p>\n

\u201cI don\u2019t know how to describe the influence of COVID,\u201d begins Peng, who also runs Vernacular Institute, located in Mexico City. \u201cI feel that my life just got paused…\u00a0I think the main thing is I did was a lot of research last year.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Hou I-Ting’s “Correction Arts Exhibition Hall” (photo provided).<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

One of the pieces in the exhibit is \u201cCorrection Arts Exhibition Hall\u201d from artist Hou I-Ting, who is interested in labour conditions for females; for the piece, I-Ting worked with a prison who also provide product-processing labour from female inmates.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis fabric piece has a speech [on it], and the artist collaborated with a prison in Taiwan, a female prison, and because of the local government promoting a strategy, this encouraged the local prison to be able to initiate their own business model,\u201d says Peng. \u201cI just read about that and she approached to do this collaboration with the female prison, and that was the whole idea.\u201d<\/p>\n

For Peng, art is a way to communicate messages and raise awareness about important issues\u2014the book The Femicide Machine<\/em> by Sergio Gonz\u00e1lez Rodr\u00edguez has been a big influence on her. Peng says Why This Word<\/em> is about \u201cgetting to know\u2014more trying to picture\u2014the female labourer and female identity in our society from very individual experiences and from these three artists.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe female labourer and the female artist\u2019s identity in a contemporary society is always my long-term concern,\u201d says Peng, \u201cand I am taking this into this exhibition.\u201d<\/p>\n

Why This Word<\/em>
\nUntil Saturday, August 21
\nDeluge Contemporary Art
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