Press
“Professor Diane Wong Co-Curates Chinatown Covid-19 Public Memory Exhibition” by Lawrence Lerner, March 9, 2023
“Tomie Arai and Diane Wong On Collecting AAPI Stories” by Shannon Lee in The Amp, March 6, 2023
“Empty Chinatown Storefront Becomes a Community Tribute” by Taylor Michael in Hyperallergic, January 22, 2023
“Anti-Asian Violence And Acts Of Community Care From The 1980s To The Present: An Interview With Vivian Truong,” interview by Hongdeng Gao, The Gotham Center for New York City History Blog, February 1, 2022
“In the Wake of the Pandemic, Asian Americans Artists Confront Racism” by Irene Mei Zhi Shum, ArtsBlog, May 11, 2021
“What the Museum of 2020 May Look Like” by Diana Budds, New York Magazine, April 15, 2021
“How to Catalog Pandemic History” by Shaena Montanari, Slate, March 16, 2021
Publications
“To Write in Unwellness: Documenting A/P/A Voices” by Crystal Baik, Diane Wong, Vivian Truong, Minju Bae, Preeti Sharma, Lena Sze, Amita Manghnani, and Mi Hyun Yoon appeared in the October 2022 issue of the Journal of Asian American Studies.
“Solidarity and Social Justice in the Midst of COVID-19” by Emily Hue appeared in the December 2021 issue of the Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas journal.
COVID19 & Its Afterlives considers the possibilities of the post-pandemic future. Bringing together writers, artists, curators, archivists, academics, and organizers, the series examines how the structural dynamics that predated COVID19–precarity, vulnerability, inequality–have been exacerbated by this past catastrophic year. Read essays commissioned by A/P/A Voices.
Exhibitions
Archive as Memorial is an exhibition organized by members of A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project on view at the Storefront for Ideas (127 Walker Street, New York, New York) from January 21-March 25, 2023. Experience the virtual exhibition.
Shaping the Past is produced in partnership with the Goethe-Institut, Monument Lab, and Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung (Federal Agency for Civic Education). The virtual exhibition is on view June-November 2021, and accompanying window projections are on view at the Goethe-Institut Montréal from July 15-September 25, 2021.
Programs
Archive as Memorial: Closing on Saturday, March 25, 2023, 5:00-8:30 p.m. EDT (watch the recording)
“Proliferating A/P/A Voices: A COVID-19 Public Memory Project” at the 2021 Virtual Oral History Association Meeting on Wednesday, October 13, 2021, 5:30-7:00 p.m. EDT
Mending in Ongoing Crisis: Native Hawaiian & Pacific Islander Voices and COVID-19 on Monday, February 22, 2021, 6:00-7:00 p.m. EST (watch the recording)
On Community Care: Documenting A/P/A Voices During COVID-19 on Thursday, December 3, 2020, 5:30-6:45 p.m. EST (watch the recording)
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