The Kitchen Project is an oral history project recording stories of diasporic Asian femme parents and children on their relationship to race, gender, food, and labor. The project director Ariel Urim Chung (Columbia University ’23) received the Martha Ross Prize, helping the project to move forward in experiment in oral history research in methodology and curation. Through the prize, Chung investigated new ways of listening, recording, and sounding oral history. The project had an installation “You are (not) Invited” in 2023 April. The project is now funded by the Brown Institute’s MAGIC Grant and supported by NYU’s A/P/A Institute, in its new installation in April, “You are (not) Invited II,” and launching of digital archive.
Photograph by Jayon Park. Find more information at www.arielurimchung.com