High Muck a Muck

"High Muck a Muck: Playing Chinese troubles the cliché of historical tales of Chinese immigration to North America's 'Gold Mountain' by juxtaposing this classic narrative of struggle against one of mobility driven by the exigencies of contemporary global capitalism. Disrupting a charming world of hand-painted graphics and traditional Chinese music is the winking gleam of a highly adaptable, well-monied, digital class. The project expresses some of the internal community struggles that erupt between different generations and classes of immigrants and it challenges the racist paradigm of an all white Canada into which Asian immigrants enter but are never fully allowed to arrive. The piece is a result of a collaboration between eleven writers, artists and programmers and was created over three years from 2011-2014. Embedded within the website are eight videopoems. The work was created in HTML 5." -- from Electronic Literature Collection, Volume 3