女:蛋 is inspired by the artist’s own experience with 重男輕女 throughout her life. It is known that in asian culture that the female gender is usually not given signifigance throughout her life with phenomena like widespread female infanticide in China during the 80s as well as various historical accounts and the rule book
Lessons for Women <<女誡>> by Ban Zhao written during the Han dynasty (202 BC) which can be also translated to ‘ Warnings for women’/ ‘Admonitions for women’ is a handbook written by intellectual Ban Zhao for her daughters to better survive in the strongly patriarchal environment back then.
In 女:蛋, the artist seeks to explore and embody the struggle and pain that asian women often grapple with in concession to the form of expressing themselves. By sewing herself shut into a shell made of nude pantyhose, she will endure the con- striction of space whilst trying to create marks on the paper. The performance will culminate with her breaking out of the shell.
Invited by art collective Amalgam, Singapore Repertory Theatre