About this Event
Transnational Diaries is a book emerging from a research project focusing on the lives, livelihoods and transnational connections of Chinese migrant traders in Belo Horizonte, Brazil.
First presented in Belo Horizonte as an exhibition, Transnational Diaries brought ethnographic research beyond academia and into the museum space. Co-created with first- and second-generation Chinese migrants who run family-owned shops in Belo Horizonte, the exhibition combines images, texts and field-based narratives to create a topography of transit: tracing the movement of people, goods, memories and relationships between the city's centre, different parts of Brazil and China.
The book brings together the materials that compose the exhibition with reflections emerging from the research project. Combining essays, visual materials and field-based narratives, it explores how ethnographic research, artistic practice and exhibition-making can generate new ways of understanding and communicating transnational popular economies.
In this talk, Mara Nogueira will talk about the book, the exhibition it portrays, and the research process behind both.
The exhibition is on display at the Peltz Gallery (Birkbeck) until 16 December, bringing the images, stories and journeys explored in the book into a new space.
Event venue & nearby stays
King's College London, Bush House (South), Strand, London, United Kingdom
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