Please correct me if i’m wrong, but this wearable project may be the first one that looks into personal history and cultural background.

Xiao Li Tan ‘s Storytelling Wearables: An Alternative Autobiography explore storytelling and enable people to discover Xiao’s relatives and birth city through looking at the movie bag, examining the shell necklace, and by lifting the hidden pieces on the skirt.

The Portable Movie Bag shows images of Taishan in China. People can also learn about the stories of the artist’s relatives by lifting some fabric on the Peekaboo Portrait Skirt, and they can experience her childhood memory of shells through the glowing Mood Shell Necklace.

All the pieces are either powered by 3v battery, or self charged battery. They are portable and meant to be worn.

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