HELLO KITTY IS DEAD
China doll, Geisha girl, Sex Kitty, Madame Butterfly. In the eyes of the media, Asian and Asian Pacific American women exist as cariacatures of the submissive Oriental wife and the conniving Dragon Lady, the model minority school girl and the token Asian news anchorwoman, as well as various types of sex slaves. Over the past 80 years in Hollywood and on TV, these stereotypes are what we as a society have internalized into identity construct for women of Asian descent.
Hello Kitty is Dead addresses commonly held stereotypes of the "exotic" Asian women by extracting images from mainstream American media. While these narratives attempt to represent us using clich%8Ed, one-dimensional characters, we reverse the process and re-examine them and their effect on America's inherently racist system of representation.
This experience is brought to you by Ann Poochareon, Geraldine Chung, and Vivian Wenli Lin of the Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. HKID is a collaboration of three individuals with combined background in music, performance, visual arts, video art, computer programming, interactive technology, and Asian American activism. Detailed bios on the producers.
HKID is dedicated to every woman, girl, and unborn daughter who has been or will be subjected to cat calls, yellow fever, and racialized sexual harassment.
VIDEO. 7 MIN.
AVAILABLE FOR SALE ON DVD! Please contact us at:
kitties [at] hellokittyisdead [dot] com
China doll, Geisha girl, Sex Kitty, Madame Butterfly. In the eyes of the media, Asian and Asian Pacific American women exist as cariacatures of the submissive Oriental wife and the conniving Dragon Lady, the model minority school girl and the token Asian news anchorwoman, as well as various types of sex slaves. Over the past 80 years in Hollywood and on TV, these stereotypes are what we as a society have internalized into identity construct for women of Asian descent.
Hello Kitty is Dead addresses commonly held stereotypes of the "exotic" Asian women by extracting images from mainstream American media. While these narratives attempt to represent us using clich%8Ed, one-dimensional characters, we reverse the process and re-examine them and their effect on America's inherently racist system of representation.
This experience is brought to you by Ann Poochareon, Geraldine Chung, and Vivian Wenli Lin of the Interactive Telecommunications Program, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University. HKID is a collaboration of three individuals with combined background in music, performance, visual arts, video art, computer programming, interactive technology, and Asian American activism. Detailed bios on the producers.
HKID is dedicated to every woman, girl, and unborn daughter who has been or will be subjected to cat calls, yellow fever, and racialized sexual harassment.
VIDEO. 7 MIN.
AVAILABLE FOR SALE ON DVD! Please contact us at:
kitties [at] hellokittyisdead [dot] com
The HELLO KITTY IS DEAD project was sponsored by the Office for African American, Latino, and Asian American Student Services (OASIS) at New York University.
The piece premiered at the "-ISM GALA 2003" which was also presented by the Office for African American, Latino, and Asian American Student Services (OASIS) on Wednesday, April 9, 2003 at Violet, 45 West 4th Street, New York, NY.