Structure(s)

Structure(s) traces architectural memory across imperial spectacle and migrant presence. From a rendered reconstruction of the 1924 Wembley Empire Stadium to the red bricks and green-tiled roof of Wing Yip supermarket, the video essay weaves official and unofficial histories through voice, image, and spatial form. Archival material from the Hong Kong Pavilion at the British Empire Exhibition resurfaces as a ghost structure, linking past displays of “Chineseness” to contemporary diasporic sites. An accompanying mind map renders these fragments as a network of architectural meaning, where surfaces speak, and identities are layered, performed, and remembered.