Comfort Women Wanted
Incorporating interviews with Korean, Chinese, Taiwanese, Indonesian, Filipino, and Dutch women survivors of Japanese WWII “comfort stations,” this public art project is intended to create awareness of the 200,000 “comfort women,” who were systematically exploited as sex slaves in Asia during World War II, and to connect this historical atrocity to the continuing sexual exploitation and trafficking of Asian women today. The grant will support installation of ad-like art displays, in collaboration with the NYC Department of Transportation’s Urban Art initiative, as well as kiosk phone booth posters at major sites in NYC and a screening and panel discussion at Columbia University.
