I am very pleased to announce that i am part of group exhibition, A Very Thing Line,” at The CERA Project, London, UK.
Exhibition Date: July 31-August 20, 2016
Opening: July 31 at 6:00pm
Location: The CERA Project, London, UK.
The exhibition A VERY THIN LINE curated by the independent curators Inês Valle and Mafalda Budib brings together six visual artists Bumi Thomas, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Nilbar Güreş, Nikki Luna, Rita GT and Lorena Wolffer who through their art practices have been giving voice to female narratives.
An exhibition that interrelates a mix of emotions, medias and narratives by inviting the audience to experience the very dark and the very bright, as a result of tension between vulnerability and resistance, love and pain that is constantly whispered in our daily struggles.
I will be performing at The 5th Miami Performance International Festival
Performance: Where are We going
Time: 9:40 pm-10:00pm, 2016
location: Edge Zones, Miami 3317 NW 7th Cir, FL 33127, MIAMI, FL 33127
Where are We going explores relationship between humans and animals, suffering and loss through symbolic and metaphoric gestures. While humans are regarded as the cultural animals, animals are often seen as another kind of people: the other, the animal other. This work expresses longing for re-connection from both humans and animals, striving to find a harmonious relationship through an animistic worldview. It reflects on our colonial roots of the wildlife and nature, questioning how wildlife and nature have been through from a symbol of a divine power in ancient time to a commodity for sale in nowadays. Through retracing our culture’s engagements with animals, I hope to expand horizons in order to better understand our roots and consequences of marginalizing our animals and nature.
I will be making two new performances, ” To Begin” and ” Set me on my High Places” at Thomas Young Gallery as part of a month long performance, Better than the Alternative
To Begin:
May 7, 2016 19:00pm -22:00pm
” To Begin” investigates social transformation through repetition and labour. Time in this work does not exist. the outward absurdity of hints at the futility of mechanized and receptive labour, while also exploring whether meaning can be made simply through a commitment to repetition. It examines how the collapse of power structures shift social dynamics, and how this inevitable collapse influences our daily existence and create new beginning.
Set me on my High Spaces:
May 14, 2016 12:00pm-16:00pm
“Set me on My High Places” explores relationship between humans and animals, suffering and loss through symbolic and metaphoric gestures. While humans are regarded as the cultural animals, animals are often seen as another kind of people: the other, the animal other. This work expresses longing for re-connection from both humans and animals, striving to find a harmonious relationship through an animistic worldview. It reflects on our colonial roots of the wildlife and nature, questioning how wildlife and nature have been through from a symbol of a divine power in ancient time to a commodity for sale in nowadays. Through retracing our culture’s engagements with animals, I hope to expand horizons in order to better understand our roots and consequences of marginalizing our animals and nature.
Video-performances de artistas mujeres
March 18, Friday, 2016 at 7:00PM
Curador: Silvio De Gracia
No todo es fragilidad [Not everything is fragile], introduces a serie of video-performances where women artists try to explore poetic dimension of the body and the female nature. Through the experimentation in different approaches to performance art, these videos reveal the psychological and physical energy of women, not excluding the beauty, breaking the old conventional image of female as a fragile being. Most of the videos show a female body incarnated in intense and obsessive actions, including hard efforts, allegories of resistance against the absurd or confrontations with the physical and social limitations.
Exhibition: February 18- March 26, 2016
Opening reception: February 18, 2016
Curated by Dr. Beth Moysés
La Corteza del Alma es una metáfora para referirnos a las capas del cuerpo, la casa de los sentimientos físicos y espirituales. Sus protagonistas son diez mujeres de distintas nacionalidades y generaciones, cuyas las obras están relacionadas con las multiplicidades de lo femenino, a través de diferentes temas, que abarcan las injusticias sociales, las cuestiones de género, violencia física, psicológica, discriminaciones raciales, o sexualidad.El punto de partida de estas obras es el cuerpo femenino, referente común para mujeres artistas, desde hace ya muchas décadas. Los soportes y técnicas utilizadas (instalaciones, pintura, dibujos, fotografías, video y audio), nos lleva a recordar la frase escrita en una de las obras de Barbara Kruger, l989: Your Body is a Battleground.La obra a la que nos referimos fue creada hace casi 20 años, nuestra sociedad ha cambiando, y las mujeres han conseguido algunas victorias, no si luchar por ellas. Todavía hay mucho por hacer, aunque las mujeres van consiguiendo imponerse. ¡Tanto en el arte como en la vida!
La Corteza del Alma revisa y actualiza esta premisa desde de un enfoque plural, poético y político con las obras de Yolanda Domínguez (EP) Catherine Dong (CN) Regina Galindo (GT) Beth Moysés (BR) Marina Núñez (EP) Rosana Paulino (BR) Marta María Pérez (CU) Teresa Serrano (MX ) Mimi Smith (USA) Sue Williams (UK)
Date: January 30, 10:00am – 13:00, 2016
As part of Duration & Dialogue Performance Art Festival/Symposium
Followed by a conversation with Johanna Householder (OCADU)
Chun Hua Catherine Dong with Robert Black
The Other Words is a durational performance that explores the otherness in translation. Translation is political, and translating a text is like chewing up rice and then feeding it to somebody else. Dong is interested in transfiguration and transformation – the shape and form of languages, and how translation cuts across cultural barriers and begins to address how we relate to the world.
