Asterisk as a life form: Timeline reconstruction in developing self-identity
Tzu Yun Wei
This project focuses on the formation of queerness within everyday movements, kinship (especially between my mother and me), and self-creation(zine-making as a sense of belonging). Using the asterisk as a metaphor for the liminality and multiplicities in personhood, I aim to propose an epistemological approach to a timeline that wanders between self, translation, and nation, that can not be “tamed” by the linear, canon history, which flattens and omits the complexity of lives.
Dear Family
An open-resource card game to create cross-party discussion for hidden dilemmas in family and relationships.
Process of Dear Family
My research shows that family relations often come with the default normativity that excludes fear, vulnerability and multiplicities in each of us. The normativity affects the queer youths and their parents, causing their minority stress. In this project, I am seeking to facilitate an open and empathy dialogue for family, when it comes to coming-out, emotional education, and gender-related discussion.
Why are the discussion spaces for sexuality and gender full of awkwardness and fear? To figure it out, I joined the Taiwan LGBTQ+ Hotline chat room to collect more perspectives from parents and LGBTQ+ students, sorting out the rooted complexity in different families.
Map of Space for footnotes*
Space for footnotes*
is a digital space containing my recognition of Taiwanese queerness. It is also open for audience to add their footnotes and expressions.
Screenshot of Space for footnotes*
Flier of Space for footnotes*
Installing process of asterisk as a life form
The developing process of identity
Drawing for exploring bodies and emotions.
Body drawing ↔︎ Asterisk as a symbol
