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Once, Macau's garment industry, with tens of thousands of households engaged in manual labor, supported the city's export value in the 1970s and 80s. However, after 2003, casinos and hotels rose one after another, and these memories of sewing gradually frayed and faded from view.
How do we trace back the many memories surrounding the sewing machine?
This workshop invites two senior editors from Taiwan's "Walker Culture" to Macau to lead the sessions. They will guide participants in learning the skills of oral history interviewing and writing. Through a series of collaborative workshops emphasizing exchange and interaction—such as interviews and exhibition tours—the facilitators will help participants confront themselves, delve into their personal motivations for participation, and explore the interconnected narratives of garment-making stories with industry, city, and even the world.
Let's become important partners for each other, retrieving the splendid garments that Macau once collectively sewed from the scattered fragments of memory!
Chen Wei-zhen Publishing Director of Walker Culture. Holds a Master's in Art Studies from National Central University. Formerly a reporter for Taiwan's youth culture publication Pots Weekly, special editor for the Taiwan Cinema Yearbook at the Taiwan Film Institute, and special correspondent for Guangzhou's City Pictorial. She writes features and interviews for various film, art, and cultural media. Skilled in cultural studies, she attempts to connect contemporary cultural phenomena with historical development. Her published works include: Voices Refusing to Be Forgotten: RCA Occupational Injury Oral History, Strolling: The Meandering Creative Footprints of Lesbians, Telling Their Stories, Let Us Change – The Dazzling Sparks from the Intersection of Lives: Migrant Workers, New Residents, and Taiwanese Lawyers, and Chronicle: Thirty Years of Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
Chen Ting-yu Holds a Master's in Art Studies from National Central University. Formerly a planner in the Promotion Department of the Taiwan Film Institute, editor-in-chief of Film Matters, and editor of Screening Weekly. Enjoys capturing the details of personal life journeys and representing history. Writes features and interviews for various film, art, and cultural media. Articles have appeared in media such as Fountain, The Initium, and The News Lens. Author of: Enchantress, Spy, Sika Deer: Bai Hong's Life in the Sea of Cinema (2018) and Taiwan Photographer Series: He Hui-guang (2019).
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Macau Museum of Art
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