I am very pleased to announce that I will have a group exhibition, ” Change Agent,” at Patrick Mikhail Gallery, Montreal, Canada, on March 3-April 10, 2018. My new ” Skin Deep” series is exhibited there.
Opening: 2:00pm-6:00pm, March 3, 2018
Exhibition: March 3-April 10, 2018
Gallery: Patrick Mikhail Gallery
Address: 4815 Boul Saint-Laurent, Montreal, CA. H2T 1R6
I am pleased to announce that I will give an artist talk at CENART (Centro Nacional de las Artes) La Esmeralda , Mexico City, on Feb 8, 2018.Time: Feb 8, 2018 at 4:00 pm -6:00 pm
Address: Av. Río Churubusco No. 79 Esq. Calzada de Tlalpan Col. Country Club Del. Coyoacán CP. 04220
Mexico City, Mexico 04220
I am pleased to announce that I will have performance, ” The Wall,” at Museo De La Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico, on Feb 3, 2018.
Time: Feb 3, 2018 at 8:00 pm -10:00 pm
Address: Museo De La Ciudad, Querétaro
Calle Vicente Guerrero Sur 27, Centro,
76000 Santiago de Querétaro, Qro.
“The Wall” is a durational performance that investigates current global migration situation and human conditions through gestures and symbols. This performance seeks intersections created by experiences of immigration and globalization. it raises awareness of our current global migration crisis, looking beyond national border and our shared responsibilities as citizen of the world, and how we continue to see ourselves in each other, and how we create a space that are grounded in inclusiveness and respect for dignity and freedom we all deserve.
Dates: December 7 – 16, 2017 Opening: Thursday, December 7, 2017, 5:30 p.m. Performance: Saturday, December 9, 2017, 1:30 p.m.
Address: 5826 St Hubert St, Montreal, QC, Canada H2S 2L7
D’où viens-tu? brings together three artists committed in their practice: Pierre Chaumont, Dayna Danger and Chun Hua Catherine Dong. Through photography, installation and performance, their works address power relations between individuals and the notion of norms in our globalized world. They interrogate how colonialism, patriarchy and heteronormativity interfere in our relationships with each other to create situations of exclusion and normalized violence. Using charm, provocation or intimidation, the artists take a critical and political stance that is much needed in a consensual society such as ours.
Showing the works Mosul, Big’Uns and The Arrival in the same exhibition space sheds light on their common strategies for reappropriating the body as territory of identity, sexuality and history. From here and elsewhere, three artists with three languages present themselves in a new space defined by them, within them. This space of the “Other” unites the differences of each, deactivating codes and norms, and opening
I am very pleased to announce that my work, ” Husbands and I,” presented by La biennale de Quebec, will be exhibited at MAC VAL in France, October 20, 2017- January 28, 2018.
Exhibition Date: October 20, 2017- January 28, 2018
Opening: October 20, 2017 at 6:30 pm
Addess:Place de la Libération, 94400 Vitry-sur-Seine, France
I am pleased to announce that I will be performing a new durations piece, ” The Warrior ” at Harold J. Miossi Art Gallery, in San Luis Obispo, California, as part of at Inverse Performance Art Festival 1:00pm – 3:30pm, September 29, 2017
“The Warrior” is a durational performance that explores how to use self-care, a new feminist strategy of resistance, to transform violent conflicts. Recent feminist discourse discusses to the potential power and radical nature of embracing self-care to explore our vulnerabilities because if “I matter, we matter, we are transforming what matters.” In this performance, I employ the similar strategy to create a liminal being by subverting my body to a site of contradiction and satire. The war is not inevitable. Conflicts can be diffused and transformed; arms can be laid down for good. Peace may often be elusive, but it is within our grasp which is both a gift and a task. For me, what the most important thing in this performance is to create some positive and sustainable gestures/actions that have capabilities to transform violence without depicting violence itself. Through satirizing the role of armed-force and juxtaposing the meditative gestures, this performance not only reveals a powerful sense of self and openness, but also turns the battle ground to a harmonious meditation space that cherishes human dignity, peace with justice, and shared well-being.
My group exhibition, Far and Near: the Distance(s) between Us, is held at Justina M. Barnicke Gallery at Museum of University of Toronto on Sept 6 – Oct 29, 2017
Far and Near: the Distance(s) between Us brings together several generations of Canadian artists of Chinese descent, offering perspectives onto the Chinese Canadian community’s historical and cultural evolutions and developments. The works included in the exhibition investigate overlooked narratives by exploring notions of distancing and being distanced in relation to race, identity, sexuality and their intertwining with Chinese Canadian history.
The idea of distance unfolds in multiple layers: in the geographic sense, as in going through a distance from point A to point B, like the construction process of the Canadian Pacific Railway; in the cultural sense, through the mainstream’s imposition of stereotypes, as in how the Chinese Canadian community has been culturally differentiated and essentialized; and in the context of the Chinese community itself, as in who is “Us”, and the distances between different groups of ethnic Chinese.
Exhibition Date: Sept 6 – Oct 29, 2017
Opening: Wednesday, September 6, 2017
Address: Justina M. Barnicke Gallery, 7 Hart House Cir, Toronto, ON M5S 3H3
Curated by Henry Heng Lu
