Ling’s Golden Imperial Shop x MUME

MUME is a nomadic anti-museum by artist Oscar Cueto that seeks to create alternate narratives in the decolonial and global migration context, presenting collaborative projects between international curators and artists in Austria. On this occasion the art collective Mai Ling will present “Ling’s Golden Imperial Shop” at MUME. 

“Ling’s Golden Imperial Shop” is a pop-up store — a food and supplies stopover and a space for conviviality and gathering. It traces a genealogy of elements constituting Mai Ling — as collective bodies and identities — questioning the display and its politics. The shop offers a concoction of objects, music and storytelling touching on intersectional issues of race, gender, sexuality and diaspora as well as politics of body (re)presentation, self-identification, self-stigmatization and the performativity of the “Asian” figure. 

MUME: Ling’s Golden Imperial Shop is supported by KÖR (Art in Public Space Vienna) in cooperation with MA7 (Department of Culture of Vienna City), Mariahilf District Council and Embassy of Mexico in Vienna.