Screening – Chinese Video Art Festival

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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Publication – Reflections of the Burden of Men

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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Publication – Red, Green, Blue ≠ White

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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Group Exhibition – Mother Tongue at Varley Art Gallery in Markham

My Group Exhibition,  Mother Tongue, is held at Varley Art Gallery in Markham, Ontario on May 13 – September 4, 2017
Exhibition Date: May 13 – September 4, 2017
Opening: May 13th 6:00pm-9:00pm
Addess: 216 Main Street Unionville, Markham, Ontario L3R 2H1

Language is a universal and abstract system of sounds and symbols. Yet, the social, political and cultural contexts in which a language is spoken greatly affects its development and usages. In ever increasingly globalized societies, our sociolinguistic identity is not often singular.  The language we speak at home, or learned as a child – our mother tongue – may not be the same one used in our everyday lives. Mother Tongueinvites us to consider the complex relationships that exist between language and identity; how it defines who we are and how it can inform visual artistic practice.

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Performance – Experimental Action in Houston

I am pleased to announce that I will be performing a new durations piece, ” Lost Islands,” at Experimental Action in Houston on Feb 23, 2017 at 8:00pm

Experimental Action is a biennial, three day, innovative International performance art festival. The festival features a collection of groundbreaking International and non local performance artists along with Houston-based performance artists. Each of the three nights is hosted at a different Houston venue and consists of a series of engaging, participatory and experimental Performance Art works. Incoming performance artists speak at area universities and lead workshops during the days. We host a symposium featuring a panel discussion, created with the intention to process experiences from the festival and to facilitate critical dialogue about the work presented.

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La Biennale de Quebec – Manif D’art 8

My work,  ” Husbands and I,” will be exhibited at La Biennale de Quebec in Feb 17 – May 14, 2017

Exhibition Date: Feb 17 –  May 14, 2017
Opening: Feb 19 at 3:00pm
Address: 2 rue Cremazie Est, Quebec, CA

Husbands and I is a social performance wherein I navigate my own relationship to Western culture through one-minute and one-day relationships with white men. I started the “Husbands and I” performance in 2009 in Vancouver, where I wore a traditional Chinese dress and asked white males on streets to have photo taken with me by suggesting them to be my husbands for a minute. I have had photos with 325 men. In 2010, I posted classified advertisements describing myself as “an exotic, compliant and artistic Asian girl looking for a white husband who would like to take me to his home to live with him for a day as his mail order bride,” and recorded videos of my experiences living for one day with each ad respondent.

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Group Exhibition- What Remains at Gallery Gachet in Vancouver

My group exhibition will be held at Gallery Gachet in Vancouver Jan 13th – Mar 12th, 2017

Exhibition Date: Jan 13th – Mar 12, 2017
Opening: Jan 13th 6:00pm-9:00pm
Address: 88 east Cordova Street Vancouver  BC

What Remains is comprised of the work of four artists who contend with conditions of identity through unique and varied means. This multimedia exhibition incorporates dialogical performance highlighting resistance to a gendering and racializing gaze formed on Eurocentric constructions of identity politics. Sincere, experiential, embodied works from the following artists will be featured: Afuwa, Chun Hua Catherine Dong, Marbella Anne Carlos and Jordan Martin.

The artists’ performances relate to moments of their lived experience as they consider what remains after the performance —placeholders for future engagements with a gallery audience. The residue of performance includes video, photography, physical objects and other remnants —elements that can only linger as memory. This exhibition will focus on the importance of performance as process that decenters value constructs placed upon the art object. In this case, these processes are not concerned with success tied to a commercial market of production. The work presented is a culmination of the everyday experiences generously shared by the artists, held and supported by the gallery.

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Solo Exhibition – Visual Poetics of Shame at aceart inc. Winnipeg

My solo exhibition, ” Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame,” will be held at aceart inc., Winnipeg, Canada

Exhibition Date: Nov 4th – Dec 9th, 2016
Opening: Nov 4th at 7:00p
Address: 2-290 McDermot Avenue , Winnipeg, CA

Visual Poetics of Embodied Shame is a solo exhibition that examines the visual culture of shame in relation to the body, subjects and power in contemporary art. Over the past three years, Chun Hua Catherine Dong has been creating this series of works that integrates performance, photography, video, and installation. Her focus is exploring the visual culture of shame associated with vulnerability in its personal and socio-political dimensions, deconstructing the experience of shame through gestures, moments, and audience participation. In her practice, she considers feminism, globalization, and psychoanalysis, positioning shame as a feminist strategy of resistance – an ethical practice that seeks altered states of consciousness that possibly leads to restore dignity and humanity.

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Performance – 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art

My performance, ” The Arrival,” will be performed at 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art,  Toronto, Canada

Performance: The Arrival
Time:7:30 pm, October 14, 2016
Location: Geary Lane , 360 Geary Avenue, Toronto

“The Arrival”   is a participatory research-based performance that examines identity, place, and belonging through languages and gestures. This performance starts from field research where I ask random people I meet on streets to say, “ Where are you from?” with different tones and emotions, I record their voices. I also invite people who I cannot meet in person to participate by asking them to record their own voices of saying“ Where are you from?” and send them to me. The final project will be presented at 7a*11d International Festival of Performance Art in Toronto where I use the recorded voices, salt, and paper boats to respond my research.

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Performance – Visualeyez Festival of Performance Art

My performance, ” To Begin,” will be performed at Latitude 53,  Edmonton, Canada, as part of the 17th Visualeyez Festival of Performance Art.

Performance: To Begin
Time: 8:30 pm-11:30pm, September 23, 2016
Location: Latitude 53 Contemporary Visual Culture
10242 – 106 Street Edmonton,
Alberta T5J 1H7 CANADA

“To Begin” investigates social transformation through repetition and labor. In this work, the stack of books is the burden of both history and unsustainable civilization. In our current social climate, collapse seems inevitable. This performance demonstrates that the process of social transformation can be slow, but changes can happen anytime and anywhere. It examines how the collapse of power structures shift social dynamics, and how this inevitable collapse influences our daily existence and creates new beginning.

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