Chinatown Pop-Up Book

Curator Dave Kyu and visual artist Colette Fu aim to provide an insider's view of what makes Philadelphia’s Chinatown special. As ArtPhilly takes a moment to reflect on the 250th anniversary of Philadelphia, Colette Fu will present a new signature large scale pop-up book that demands visitors consider the cultural contributions of Philadelphia’s Chinatown in the future of Democracy. The pop-up will be a five-spread book sized at 26 x 40 inches, operated by a rotating crank. Visitors will be welcomed to visit the pop-up book, and rotate a crank that flips through five pages of the pop-up book, which provides a behind-the-scenes look into what makes our Chinatown so vibrant. The supporting table will resemble an altar with the rotating crank mechanism as a reference to a 1903 invention by Edmund Smith, derogatorily named the "Iron Chink”.

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