珍惜 (Cherish).

Abstract

Globalization and exposure to Western content have diluted many of our local

cultures and traditions. Local culture that has played a great part in building our

unique identity is gradually being lost with each new generation of Singaporeans.

Chinese/Teochew Opera reminds me of my late grandmother and how she always

emphasized the importance of such traditions and preserving culture through the

generations.

Two videos are presented in this project: one on culture and one on family.

For the video about culture, I took a video of myself in the process of learning

Chinese/Teochew Opera: from make up to singing lesson to performance. For the

video about family, I included my late grandmother as well as my father. These two

videos run on simultaneously with sound in Teochew dialect, with a still photographic

self-portrait in between.