W.O.W. Project Residency: Sweeping Away Evil Shadow Puppet Theater

Created during The W.O.W. Project 店面 Residency

W.O.W. Shadow Puppet Theater is a community project centered on the question "what do you do to sweep away evil?" From October 2017 through February 2018 as 店面 Storefront Artist-in-Residence, I held 17 workshops in the Wing On Wo studio and Columbus Park (Manhattan), teaching paper cutting and shadow puppetry. Participants made their own puppets and devised short plays based on a memory, practice, tradition, or imaginary about how they sweep away evil for themselves and their communities. These recorded plays were featured in a month-long window installation at Wing On Wo & Co. facing onto Mott Street in Chinatown.