
Latinxua Sin Wenz Kala OK (LSWK for short) is a web project that brings together karaoke and romanization from a Sinophone (Chinese–speaking) diasporic perspective. LSWK deals with themes of translation, pronunciation, immigration, nostalgia, amnesia, and ideology through two companion websites.
The project invites users to sing karaoke songs whose lyrics have been romanized using Latinxua Sin Wenz, a long-obsolete romanization system for Chinese that preceded the current reigning system of Hanyu Pinyin. The project explores the metaphorical associations that Latinxua Sin Wenz bears with the Sinophone diasporic experience — sound divorced from its referent, the person estranged from their “origin” (supposedly). LSWK also brings in interplanetary motifs, exploring the idea of the diaspora as planets having drifted far away from, yet nonetheless still orbiting around, the gravitational center of the homeland.
Latinxua Sin Wenz Kala OK: Karaoke
Latinxua Sin Wenz Kala OK: Duologue

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