Yam Lau, Nushu: "Echo Chambers," Jan. 21 to March 26 at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon

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Yam Lau, Nushu: "Echo Chambers", 2014, video still, computer generated animation, detail

Yam Lau, Nushu: "Echo Chambers", 2014, video still, computer generated animation, detail

Since 2007, Yam Lau has visited China annually to explore traditional and contemporary Chinese culture. Nushu: Echo Chambers is a computer-generated animation that transmits a writing script, nushu, or woman’s hand, invented and circulated exclusively amongst women in the Jiangyong region of feudal China. Forbidden to participate in formal education, women developed their own written language and passed it on to their daughters and granddaughters. Lau met the language’s last practitioners and recorded their songs. 

Jan. 21 to March 26 at the Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba in Brandon