Min-Jia’s Puppet Making Workshop at HART Haus

Description

Artist Min-Jia’s residency collaboration with PODIUM, HART Haus and Eaton showcases their contemporary reinterpretation of traditional Chinese craftsmanship – in particular the art of shadow puppetry. This collaboration includes a two-day workshop in which participants get to create their own hybrid snake puppets using vellum under the artist’s guidance and learn about learn about traditional materials and techniques involved in traditional Chinese puppet-making. The workshop aims to focus on the theme of transformation through participants’ own creation and hands-on experience.

Ürümqi-born artist Min-Jia’s works explore narratives of transformation through queer, diasporic and disabled perspectives. By sampling and remixing folk and ornamental arts like the shadow puppetry featured in this workshop, they re-examine fantasies of the Other across canonical and outsider art histories.