CHINATOWN TENANT STORIES  唐人街住客見聞

Stills from The Comforts of Home, featuring Mr. Wong

Chinatown Tenants Stories (2013-2015) is a video and talkback series centered around the stories of low-income tenants affected by gentrification and displacement. Post-screening discussions were co-designed with the tenant storyteller to build their leadership skills, provide campaign updates, understand how policies impact families and communities, build solidarity amongst tenants, and collectively strategize ways to fight displacement and harassment.

This series was developed as part of the Asian American Oral History Collective in collaboration with the Chinatown Tenants Union of CAAAV Organizing Asian Communities. Chinatown Tenant Stories is made possible in part with public funds from the Manhattan Community Arts Fund, supported by the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council and administered by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council. Many thanks to fiscal sponsorship support from Third World Newsreel.

Exhibitions:
2024 - Martha Rosler’s If You Can’t Afford To Live Here, MO-O-OVE!!, Environments by Women Artists II at MAXXI Rome, Italy
2021 - Life Support: Forms of Care in Art and Activism, Glasgow Women’s Library, UK
2016 - Martha Rosler’s If You Can’t Afford To Live Here, MO-O-OVE!! Mitchell-Innes & Nash, New York, NY

Stills from Mrs. Zheng on Delancey

Stills from John the Shopkeeper on Bayard