New Wing Luke exhibit explores the power of objects with Ten Thousand Things
Episode description
An old faded rice cooker. A blue two piece suit. A vial of water from the Ganges River.
For the past four years, Poet Shin Yu Pai’s podcast, Ten Thousand Things, has explored how objects – from the extraordinary to the mundane, the literal to the figurative – communicate stories of Asian American meaning, identity, and culture.
As of last month, the stories in the series have broken out of podcast players and become a new exhibit in Seattle’s Wing Luke Museum.
The exhibit includes objects that will be familiar to listeners of the series – as well as some new items that will be featured in upcoming episodes.
Soundside’s Alec Cowan joined Shin Yu Pai at the Wing Luke Museum to talk about the exhibit.
Guests:
- Shin Yu Pai, writer, curator, and host of Ten Thousand Things.
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