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Shoesandspices at Speak Local, Critical Path, 2015. Photo: Heidrun Löhr (Page 50-51) WeiZen Ho at Speak Local, Critical Path, 2015. Photo: Heidrun Löhr
Inter-culturality in our performance is a device we employ more than expression of who we are. It generates a place where boundaries may be crossed and cultural content and contemporary existence are mixed in complicated ways. a history of coolies as a cheap or kidnapped source of labour, and so to that of the Chinese Diaspora. She references the history of women in situations of domestic and kitchen slavery, sometimes by choice and other times by force.
My use of shoes is another new exploration, and has multiple cultural, historical and artistic references. Whether to the removal of shoes in homes and temples, to walking in another’s shoes, the word play between “sole and soul”, culturally not pointing your feet at