Screening -THEY at Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival

Screening: THEY
Festival: Chinese Women Artists Video Art Festival in Mexico City
Date: Feb 2- 7, 2021

THEY
The film available upon request
2017
29’20

Ellas es una instalación cinematográfica de cuatro canales que lleva al público al mundo de cuatro mujeres para examinar de cerca su vida cotidiana ritualizada, sus obsesiones, sus luchas y sus determinaciones de ser quienes son. Las cuatro mujeres son diferentes, pero se reflejan entre sí: se enfrentan a transiciones difíciles, relaciones ambivalentes y deseos que las perturban mientras celebran sus propias existencias de una manera subversiva pero casi meditativa. “Ellas” en esta película son tanto singulares como plurales, refiriéndose a las mujeres como individuos únicos que son plurales, pero cuyos cuerpos han sido marcados como el otro.

Mi enfoque del tema en esta película está subrayando los cuerpos de las mujeres como un sitio para la transgresión y resistencia social y política. Mediante el uso de gestos simbólicos, ritmos poéticos y repeticiones, esta película revela una reflexión compleja sobre cómo las identidades están mediadas no solo a través de las pantallas sino cómo nos llegan a través del tiempo. Esta instalación se basa en tradiciones cinematográficas y de performance, esforzándose por crear nuevas narrativas visuales que permitan al público experimentar la dimensión temporal del cuerpo directamente, al mismo tiempo, proporcionando una clave para comprender el poder corporal en la era digital.

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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 – MOMENTA Biennale de I’image

Exhibition: The Life of Thing
Presented by MOMENTA Biennale de I’image, Montreal
Curated by María Wills Londoño and Audrey Genois
Date: Sept 4-Oct13, 2019
Opening: September 4th at 5:00pm
Address: Galerie de L’ UQAM
1400 Rue Berri, Montréal, QC

Under the theme The Life of Things, MOMENTA 2019 explores the nature—or even the personality—taken on by objects conveyed through images. Through the eyes of 39 artists from 20 countries, the biennale examines the economic, social, and cultural contexts in which material production is prevalent. With respect to the issues of consumption that characterize the contemporary world, these thingified objects are given dizzying visibility even as, ironically, they are rendered invisible by boundless accumulation. For its 2019 edition, the biennale brings out universes that are constructed between individuals and their environment, highlighting transferences that take place between subject and object.

MOMENTA transcends the polarization between the symbolic and the functional in the economies of the object. To this end, the biennale’s four thematic components offer different ways of imagining the relationships between human beings and objects. Encompassing a variety of ideas tied to questions of consumption, these components intersect in various ways to shed light on the works shown. They allow us to envisage the complexity of the connotations and resonances of things in contemporary societies.

For more info about Mother, please visit here
For more info about MOMENTA Biennale de I’image, please visit here

 

 

 

 

 

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

 

 

Workshop–Surrey Art Gallery

I am very pleased to announce that I will have a workshop with youth at  Surrey Art Gallery, BC,  as part of Art Together on April 3, 2018, presented by AgentC Project

This performance art workshop is designed for students who want to learn how to use performance to both challenge and change. This workshop combines a brief introduction of performance art, movements and gestures exercises, and improvisations, helping students to create live art images, actions and rituals, fostering new understanding of the body-based art in our everyday lives. Through this workshop, students will learn how to access and develop their powerful and creative imaginations in an engaging and fun way.  Students will also learn new approaches to art making, how to create various personas, and how to collaborate with their fellow performers to create a new form of art that will challenge traditional ideas of art and transcend the boundaries of nation, gender, and racial identity.

time: 7:00pm-9:00pm, April 3, 2018
Gallery: Surrey Art Gallery
Address: 13750 88 Ave, Surrey, BC, Canada.  V3W 3L1

 

Performance -Nuit Blanche

I am very pleased to announce that I will perform ” A Fair Day’s Work,” at Nuit Blanche, presented by Art Souterrain, 7:00pm-10:00pm March 3, 2018, Place Bonaventure, and other different public spaces in Montreal.

Feb 26, 2018, 7:00pm-8:00pm, dans le hall de Bibiotheque (BAnQ), Montreal
March 3, 2018, 7:00pm-10:00pm, Place Bonaventure
Mar 19, 2018, 12:00pm-13:00pm, 1000 de la Gauchetirere, Montreal
Mar 20, 2018,12:00pm-13:00pm, Montreal’s World Trade Centre, Montreal
Mar 22, 2018, 12:00pm-13:00pm, Complexe Guy Fauvreau, Montreal

“A Fair Days’ Work” is a durational performance piece that explores relationship between time and labor in working environment. “Work” is often defined as paid actives links to the market. While paid work remain visible, the unpaid work in arts, as a phenomenon, remains unrecognized and undervalued. “A Fair Days’ Work” is not only a test of mental and physical endurance, but also a satire that echoes the condition of artistic labor in relation to capitalist economy and subsidy culture, providing a justification for the artists’ vulnerability.

for more about my performance, schedule, and the Art Souterrain

 

 

Artist Talk- CENART (Centro Nacional de las Artes) La Esmeralda
 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
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.

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