Working through culture – a drawing practice with an old apron

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	Working through culture – a drawing practice with an old apron
	Lo, Y. Y. P.
	2014-11-07
Source Publication	World Art
ISSN	2150-0894 (Print), 2150-0908 (Online)
Pages	137-156
Abstract	Through narrating an encounter with an elderly woman in the so-called Nüshu region, I aim to show how her chants and her old apron in particular have inspired my creative drawing work. Nüshu, or women’s script, is believed to be created and practiced by women in a small and remote region in China. The exclusive use of Nüshu among women for generations suggests that some women were able to create their own means of communication despite deprivation of education. With Nüshu, they were able to develop a tradition of storytelling, orally in chants, in embroidery work and in written form covering their own stories that were forgotten in History. Interwoven with an account of my drawing practice in line with the visual and audio documentations collected in my visits to the region, the writing exemplifies how an ordinary woman through her practice could constitute the object of ethnology. It is an attempt to open up a dialogue connecting women in the practice of chanting, embroidering, writing and drawing, across cultures, space and time. The work, articulated in a repetitive and fragmentary manner, is between theory and fiction, and acts to interrupt the linear tradition of History and explore a fluid practice of writing.
Keyword	artefact women visual arts trace memory Nüshu women’s script
Language	英語English
The Source to Article	PB_Publication
PUB ID	11887
Document Type	Journal article
Collection	Faculty of Education
Recommended Citation GB/T 7714	Lo, Y. Y. P.. Working through culture – a drawing practice with an old apron[J]. World Art, 2014, 137-156.
APA	Lo, Y. Y. P..(2014). Working through culture – a drawing practice with an old apron. World Art, 137-156.
MLA	Lo, Y. Y. P.."Working through culture – a drawing practice with an old apron".World Art (2014):137-156.

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