Film Screening – Queer City Cinema

I am very pleased to announce that my four channel film “They” will be screened at Queer City Cinema as part of Bad (Ass) Bodies, presented by Performatorium Festival of Queer Performance 7 and Queer City Cinema Film Festival 16.

Screening time: 8:30 pm, September 20, 2019
Festival: September 18-21, 2019
Address: Regina Public Library Film Theatre, 2311 12th Avenue, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada

For more info about Queer City Cinema, please visit here
For more info about my work, “THEY,” Please visit here
The film available upon request

“The focus of Queer City Cinema 16 and Performatorium 7 will centre on marginalized bodies – those that are often viewed as less than, unhealthy, burdensome, defective, dangerous and threatening – and those artists that use their body to confront stigma, to resist and defy perceived and systemic attitudes, to activate awareness and insight, and to engage a rethink towards empathic impulses. Bad (ass) Bodies will see films, performances, workshops and discussions involving Fat, HIV+, aged, disabled, diseased and abject Queer bodies.”

Gary Varro
Executive & Artistic Director
Queer City Cinema & Performatorium

Group Exhibition – Walking the Bridge

 

I am having a group exhibition at Museo de la Cancillería, Mexico City,  from July 11 to August 23, created by Elizabeth Ross. I also do a performance on July 13 at 4:00pm.

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Solo Exhibition – THEY

Solo Exhibition: THEY
Gallery: Le Lieu, centre en art actuel, Quebec City
Date: May 31 – June 23, 2019
Opening: May 31 at 7:00pm
Address: 345 rue du Pont, Quebec, Quebec G1K 6M4

They est une installation vidéo à quatre chaînes qui emmène le public dans les mondes de quatre femmes pour examiner de près leur vie quotidienne ritualisée, leurs obsessions, leurs tiraillements et leur détermination à être ce qu’elles sont. Les quatre femmes sont différentes, mais se ressemblent: elles vivent des transitions difficiles, des relations ambivalentes et des désirs qui les troublent, tout en célébrant leur propre existence de manière subversive, et même presque méditative. Le titre de l’installation est dérivé du pronom neutre anglais they. Dans cette vidéo, they est à la fois singulier et pluriel, désignant les femmes comme des individus uniques qui sont pluriels, mais dont les corps ont été marqués autrement.

Dans ce vidéo à quatre perspectives, l’artiste présente le corps de la femme comme un endroit de transgression et de resistance socio-politique. En employant des gestes symboliques, un rythme poétique et des répétitions, Dong révèle une réflexion complexe sur la médiation des identités à travers les écrans les performances et sur la manière dont elles nous parviennent avec le temps. Cette installation vidéo multicanal s’inspire des traditions du cinéma et de la performance pour tenter de créer de nouveaux récits visuels qui permettent au public de faire directement l’expérience de la dimension temporelle du corps, tout en fournissant une clé pour comprendre le pouvoir corporel à l’ère numérique d’aujourd’hui.

Group Exhibition – rames narratives / Storylines

Exhibition:  Trames narratives / Storylines
Gallery: Centre d’exposition L’Imagier
Date: May 24 – July 28, 2019
Opening: May 24 at 6:00pm
address: 9, Front St., Gatineau (Aylmer), Quebec, Canada

In addition to present my photographic work, ” Skin Deep,” I will present a performance, ” Come Home” at the opening, start at 5:00pm

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The Centre d’exposition L’Imagier is pleased to present Trames narratives / Storylines, the very first exhibition presented in its new building.

The opening will be held on Friday, May 24th, 6 p.m., at Centre d’exposition L’Imagier, 9, Front St., Gatineau (Aylmer).

The inaugural exhibition of the new L’Imagier seeks to showcase a multiplicity of practices and perspectives by bringing together six curators: Katarzyna (Kasia) Basta, Marianne Breton, Paul Brunet, Marie-Hélène Leblanc, Stefan St-Laurent and Julie Tremble. Artists Chun Hua Catherine Dong, David Elliott, Kablusiak, Kim Kielhofner, Carl Trahan, Jennifer Lefort and Mélanie Myers present discourses, experiences and stories weaving different narrative layers. By promoting the sharing of artistic visions, knowledge and interests, the exhibition fosters dialogue.

Guided by the notion of narration, the curators present artists whose works testify to their genesis, the experience of the artist or the observation of society. The works of various artistic mediums – photography, drawing, collage, sculpture and performance – are highlighted both in their differences and in their common filiations. While some appear closer to reality, others appeal more freely to fiction. Blurring the boundaries between the real and the imaginary, the exhibition promotes a contact with a plurality of truths.

For more info

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Trames narratives / Storylines
Le Centre d’exposition L’Imagier est heureux de vous présenter Trames narratives / Storylines, la toute première exposition présentée dans son nouvel espace.

Le vernissage se déroulera le vendredi 24 mai 2019, à 18 h, au Centre d’exposition L’Imagier situé au 9, rue Front, Gatineau (secteur Aylmer).

L’exposition inaugurale du nouveau Centre d’exposition L’Imagier cherche à mettre en valeur une multiplicité de pratiques et de points de vue en réunissant six commissaires : Katarzyna (Kasia) Basta, Marianne Breton, Paul Brunet, Marie-Hélène Leblanc, Stefan St-Laurent et Julie Tremble. Ceux-ci présentent les artistes Chun Hua Catherine Dong, David Elliott, Kablusiak, Kim Kielhofner, Carl Trahan, Jennifer Lefort et Mélanie Myers, qui offrent aux visiteurs des discours, des expériences, des récits tissant différentes couches narratives. En favorisant le partage de visions artistiques, de connaissances et d’intérêts, l’exposition se veut un lieu de dialogue.

Guidés par la notion de narration, les commissaires ont sélectionné des artistes dont les œuvres témoignent de leur genèse, de l’expérience de l’artiste ou de l’observation de la société. Les œuvres de diverses disciplines artistiques – la photographie, le dessin, le collage, la sculpture et la performance – sont mises en lumière tant dans leurs différences que leurs filiations communes. Si certaines apparaissent plus proches de la réalité, d’autres font appel plus librement à la fiction. Ces croisements entre le réel et l’imaginaire, au sein de l’exposition, favorisent un contact avec une vérité plurielle. For more info

 

Performance – I Still Look For You in Crowds

I am very pleased to announce that I will have a performance at Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre in Regina on March 30, 2019, curated by Blair Fornwald, presented by Dunlop Art Gallery. There will be conversation/ talk after the performance.

Performance time: 7:00pm, March 30, 2018
Artist talk time: 8:00pm, March 30, 2018
Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre, 1835 Scarth Street, Regina, CA  S4P 2G9

In conjunction with the exhibition, Are You My Mother?, Dunlop Art Gallery, in partnership with Neutral Ground Artist Run Centre is pleased to present a new performance artwork by Montreal-based artist Chun Hua Catherine Dong, exploring the passage of time and feelings of grief following the loss of her mother in 2016. Featuring Regina-based dance artist, Johanna Bundon.

Chun Hua Catherine Dong is a Chinese-born, Montreal-based visual artist working with performance, photography, and video. She received a MFA from Concordia University and a BFA from Emily Carr University Art & Design.

for more infö, please visit
https://www.reginalibrary.ca/dunlop-art-gallery/browse-exhibitions/1397539
https://www.neutralground.sk.ca

 

 

Performance -museo de la ciudad de Querétaro

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.

Artist Talk -museo de la ciudad de Querétaro

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.

Performance – Inverse Performance Art Festival

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.

for more info about the festival
for more info about the performance

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

For more info about the publication
For more info about the exhbition 

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