Aural Presence: Asian American Presents
Welcome to Aural Presence: Asian American Presents!
This new Boston Progress Radio podcast series brings the voices of Boston-area API* artists and activists to you by sharing conversations, music, poetry and more.
Boston isn’t well known for its Asian American artists and activists, but there are more of us here than you might think! We’re aiming to up the visibility and share passions for art, culture, history, social change and much more through this podcast, especially with those of you who don’t have a chance to delve into that exuberant Asian Am vibe at venues like East Meets Words. And we’ve got a great variety on tap, so something in this wide spectrum of Asian America here is bound to surprise and fascinate you!
This week we will be talking to Brian Chan.
Brian Chan is one of the most innovative origami designers in the US, recently rolling out stunning anime origami. In this podcast, Brian Chan talks about how he got into origami design and gives us his perspectives on his experiences and on origami as an art.
“I find it extremely meaningful to be at the forefront of a relatively new art. Traditional origami is an old art, but this new stuff, custom origami is very new. It’s only a few decades old. So… hopefully in a few centuries we’ll still be seen s some of the pioneers of origami… But in modern times, I’m not that famous… Most of my days are pretty normal.”
“The real masters, most of them are really humble and very open-minded. I find that open-mindedness sort of comes hand in hand with humility.”
Special thanks to Simon Hutchinson for the intro and outro music from his album den gen, available on iTunes.
Aural Presence is hosted by sudo, aka Albert.
[Editor's Note: API* is a re-appropriation of the term API, which was created by the US government to more easily categorize our communities. While API still stands for Asian/Pacific Islander, with the * we redefine and expand the term to include- but not limited to: South-, Southeast-, East-, Central-, or West-Asian, Middle Eastern, Arab, Pacific-Islander, Oceanic, Americans of Asian decent, multiracial, adoptee, "other," or however one chooses to represent their cultural/political/ethnic identity. For decades, others have used the category API to tell us what we are to them. But now, we use API* to define who we are to ourselves.]
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