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Mukbang Matinee: Hunger, Care, and the Asian Body

August 22 11:00 am 2:00 pm

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Join BAD ASIANS for a feast of experimental moving image and video by Asian diasporic artists examining food as a site where race, gender, sexuality, and labor converge. Eating, cooking, and feeding become embodied acts through which artists negotiate intimacy and spectacle, pleasure and precarity, care and consumption. Across performance, digital animation, music video, and documentary, these works consider food as a medium for cultural transmission and a metaphor for the Asian body – one that has been fetishized, surveilled, and consumed.

This matinee screening features optional brunch boxes from Gu Grocery, a mother-daughter-sister, Chinese Taiwanese family food project which offers high-quality pantry staples and handmade treats and is opening a neighborhood market in Chinatown.

Proceeds from ticket sales will support an oral history project documenting Chinatown’s 27-year-old post office after the USPS defunded the branch in fall 2025, preserving community memories of a vital neighborhood institution.

Screening admission and brunch boxes are sold separately.

Preorder your meal for Matinee Mukbang here.

FEATURED ARTISTS

Patty Chang

Lena Chen

Whiskey Chow

Mai Ling

Laurel Nakadate

Sasami

TT Takemoto

Echo Tang

Kayla Tange

Kim Ye