Prologue

By Carlin Zia, 2018
Listen to this edited audio piece through OHMA’s SoundCloud channel

Current OHMA student Carlin Zia shares an experimental iteration of her self-reflexive thesis work on identity, family, race, and belonging. Explicitly dialogical and intersubjective, this piece engages the tensions between process and product, between curiosity and urgency.

Carlin comes to OHMA from a literature background, having graduated with distinction in English from Yale College. She brings with her a love of language and narrative and writing, and is excited to get up to speed on social science theory and audio/visual mediums. For the last year she has been working on a project with her Chinese-born grandfather to record his life story, and in so doing to engage more deliberately with her own Asian\American identity. After a couple months she learned that what she was doing was a real thing and it was called Oral History. The rest is ongoing.