I am pleased to announce that I will have an artist talk at Museo De La Ciudad, Querétaro, Mexico, on Feb 2, 2018.
Time: Feb 2, 2018 at 7:30 pm -9:00 pm
Address: Museo De La Ciudad, Querétaro
Calle Vicente Guerrero Sur 27, Centro,
76000 Santiago de Querétaro, Qro.
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
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I am very pleased to announce that i am listed among the “10 Artists Who Are Reinventing History” by Canadian Art in 2017
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.
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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
My two video works, ” When I was Born” and ” Skin Deep” are screening at Chinese Video Art Festival in Mexico in August 21 to November 30, 2017
The Chinese Artists Video Art Festival is known to be unique in the international Art world. To gather Chinese artists working in the PRC as in different countries overseas in one place was made in Mexico City for the first time. Through global open calls, the Chinese Artists Video Art Festival was organized with the aim of gathering a representative group of Chinese female artists to show their video art production in Mexico City. The call was attended by42 artists from Mainland China and living abroad, especially Europe and North America, and 57 different videos in animation; documental, video-performance and videoart were shown in 6 different venues in Mexico City. Lectures and workshops allowed the audiences to engage more with the Chinese Culture and frame the artists and video productions into its specific but variegated context.
August 21-25, 2017, Digital Culture Center, Mexico City
September 6 and 7, 2017, Clavecine, Mexico City
September 20 and 27, 2017, Faro de Aragón, Multimedia Centre, Mexico City
September 21, 22, 23, 24 2017, Cineteca de la Escuela Modelo Pozos, Guanajuato
October 10, 11, 17, 18, 24, 25 and 31, 2017, Queretaro City Museum,Queretaro
November 21-26, 2017, Chihuahua
November 29-30, 2017, Smart Civic Center, Ciudad Juárez, Chihuahua
March 2018, Guangdong, China
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I am pleased to announce that Reflection of the Burden of Men includes my work into the publication, there is also an essay about my work, written by Laura Beth Reese and Madeline Zappala.
Reflections on the Burden of Men is an eye roll at the patriarchy in the form of a fine art and poetry magazine. The work featured probes into the pervasive impact of toxic masculinity, which has negative reverberations throughout and beyond our culture.
Edited and curated by Laura Beth Reese and Madeline Zappala
Editorial help from Marissa Lorusso
Design by Tori Baisden and Paige Mazurek
Curatorial help from Melaney Portillo
Produced in Boston, MA.
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I am pleased to announce that Red, Green, Blue ≠ White includes my two works that were exhibited at Blackwood Gallery in 2013.
Red, Green, Blue ≠ White is the catalog produced for the 2013 exhibition at the Blackwood of the same name. Curated by Johnson Ngo, then-Curator-in-Residence at the Blackwood Gallery, the exhibition brought together eight artists exploring the the intersections of colour theory and contemporary race and identity politics. Included in this publication are commissioned essays and artist projects that depart from that 2013 exhibition, reflecting on notions of performativity, hybridity, and intersectionality.
Curator/Editor: Johnson Ngo
Writers: Emelie Chhangur and Francisco-Fernando Granados
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