USAAF 2021 | Scattered Home

Friday, 6/25 | 5:00 - 6:30

APICC is proud to feature Vida Kuang's Scattered Home as part of the 24th annual United States of Asian America Festival: Forging Our Futures - SoMa & Chinatown.

About the project

Scattered Home is a series of talking portrait banners depicting the lives of three intergenerational SRO tenants in Chinatown. The word scattered home is a loose translation of the Cantonese word for single room occupancy: 散房 san fong, where tenants live in a single room often with multiple generations. Scattered Home is made of audio portrait stories of SRO life from youth and elder tenants. Each portrait (at various locations in Chinatown) has a code to bi-lingual audio recordings of each tenant's story on family, caretaking, navigating a pandemic, and their futures.