Family Amnesia
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Family Amnesia tells the story of the artist's great grandfather, grandfather and parent’s migration through collages, archival images, photographs, documents and historical anti-Chinese propaganda illustrations. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act set the backdrop for racial discrimination that has seeped into countless immigrant families. From operating a small hand laundromat, to working long hours for low wages in garment factories, generations of Yu’s family have worked tirelessly to overcome these obstacles. While the artist’s family migration story is shared by many Asian Americans this book…mehr

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Family Amnesia tells the story of the artist's great grandfather, grandfather and parent’s migration through collages, archival images, photographs, documents and historical anti-Chinese propaganda illustrations. The 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act set the backdrop for racial discrimination that has seeped into countless immigrant families. From operating a small hand laundromat, to working long hours for low wages in garment factories, generations of Yu’s family have worked tirelessly to overcome these obstacles. While the artist’s family migration story is shared by many Asian Americans this book provides an evocative first hand testimony of the challenges posed by racial discrimination.
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Betty Yu is an award-winning filmmaker, socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer and activist born and raised in NYC. Yu integrates documentary film, installation, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice. Betty’s films and multimedia work has focused on labor, immigration, gentrification, abolition, racism, militarism, transgender equality among other issues. She is a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-displacement fights. Yu's documentary "Resilience" about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions screened at  film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film Festival. Yu's multi-media installation, Her work has been exhibited and screened at the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, NY Historical Society, Museum of the City of NY, Tenement Museum, Artists Space/ISP Whitney Museum, 2019 BRIC Biennial, Apexart, and many more.