Duck Rabbit

Archival photograph used in Duck Rabbit. A woman wearing  a tiara, brocade bodysuit and "Happy New Year" sash  dances in a conga line with a mixed crowd at what appears  to be a New Year's celebration, photographed in black  and white, circa 1960s

Artist: 

Pamela Carter

www.newearththeatre.org.uk/events/duck-rabbit

2021

Duck Rabbit is a film project by writer Pamela Carter that explores themes of family, heritage and identity through an imagined correspondence between her two grandmothers in Singapore and England. Born around the turn of the 20th century, their parallel yet separate lives reflect differing cultural, social and historical contexts shaped by colonial histories.

Drawing on archival photographs inherited from her family, the work examines questions of mixed-race identity, memory and inherited narratives. Its title references the duck–rabbit optical illusion, evoking how a single image or history may be understood through multiple, shifting perspectives.