CHUN HUA CATHERINE DONG
The Arrival
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The Undocumented
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RESIDENCY, ARTIST TALKS, RESEARCH COLLECTION
Residency- Island Studio, April 4 - 11
CASV Members, Artist Talk - Island Studio, April 7, 2018
Public Artist Talk - Island Studio, April 12, 2018
During her residency at Island Studio Dong gave two intriguing artist talks and asked interested visitors to participate in field research for her ongoing project, The Arrival, a participatory, research-based performance that examines identity, place, and belonging through languages and gestures. In her field research Dong records random people saying, “ Where are you from?” with different tones and emotions. She also invites people who she cannot meet in person to participate by recording their own voices and sending their recordings to her. Dong’s performance component of this work incorporates these recordings, salt, and paper boats as a response to her research. For a voice recording sample, please visit: https://soundcloud.com/chun-hua-catherine-dong/where-are-you-from-chun-hua-catherine-dong
CASV Members, Artist Talk - Island Studio, April 7, 2018
Public Artist Talk - Island Studio, April 12, 2018
During her residency at Island Studio Dong gave two intriguing artist talks and asked interested visitors to participate in field research for her ongoing project, The Arrival, a participatory, research-based performance that examines identity, place, and belonging through languages and gestures. In her field research Dong records random people saying, “ Where are you from?” with different tones and emotions. She also invites people who she cannot meet in person to participate by recording their own voices and sending their recordings to her. Dong’s performance component of this work incorporates these recordings, salt, and paper boats as a response to her research. For a voice recording sample, please visit: https://soundcloud.com/chun-hua-catherine-dong/where-are-you-from-chun-hua-catherine-dong
SURREY ART GALLERY SPRING EXHIBITION | ART TOGETHER PROGRAM
Spring Exhibition, Surrey Art Gallery, April 14, 2018
Art Together Program, Surrey Art Gallery, April 3, 2018
AgentC Projects is excited to be working with Surrey Art Gallery to present The Undocumented, a new performance work by Chun Hua Catherine Dong and to engage her to participate in a performance art workshop. Thank you to all of those amazingly engaged individuals who at Surrey Art Gallery, and our workshop guests who participated in the performance workshop — it was such a great experience!
This performance art workshop was 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, participants will create live art images, actions and rituals, fostering new understanding of the body-based art in our everyday lives. Through this workshop, participants will learn how to access and develop their powerful and creative imaginations in an engaging and fun way. Participants 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. (Dong)
AgentC Projects gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Surrey's Cultural Grants Program.
ORGANIZED BY | AgentC Projects
Art Together Program, Surrey Art Gallery, April 3, 2018
AgentC Projects is excited to be working with Surrey Art Gallery to present The Undocumented, a new performance work by Chun Hua Catherine Dong and to engage her to participate in a performance art workshop. Thank you to all of those amazingly engaged individuals who at Surrey Art Gallery, and our workshop guests who participated in the performance workshop — it was such a great experience!
This performance art workshop was 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, participants will create live art images, actions and rituals, fostering new understanding of the body-based art in our everyday lives. Through this workshop, participants will learn how to access and develop their powerful and creative imaginations in an engaging and fun way. Participants 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. (Dong)
AgentC Projects gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Surrey's Cultural Grants Program.
ORGANIZED BY | AgentC Projects
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ARTIST BIO
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ARTIST STATEMENT
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Body is political. Working within the gap between body as image and body as experienced reality, Dong uses the body—often her own body— as a visual territory in her work and a primary material to activate social commentary on immigration, race and gender. By encapsulating these global issues in microcosm or magnifying personal predicaments until they become universally visible, she presents the body as an embodiment of dynamic human relations, locating herself at the nexus of author, artwork and audience.
Her artistic practice is based in performance art, photography and video, in which she explores themes of “East/West” and “self/other” within the contemporary context of global feminism. Her work deals mainly with cultural intersections created by globalization and asks what it means to be a citizen of the world today. She opens dialogues about “deterritorialization” and “disessentialization” in culture and how to transform socio-political landscapes through gestures. The gestures in her work are symbolic and metaphoric—at times subversive, meditative, subtle and/or humorous. They express her desire to transform everyday political life into art, as she strives to instil a model for social transformation. In her earlier works, the body represented an ideological confrontation or political alienation. She developed the idea of representation as a political tool to give visibility to those made invisible by dominant ideologies. In her newer works, she views the body as a bridge connecting East and West, past and present, creating a new version of hybridity and striving to transcend and mend. chunhuacatherinedong.com/ |
Body is political. Working within the gap between body as image and body as experienced reality, Dong uses the body—often her own body— as a visual territory in her work and a primary material to activate social commentary on immigration, race and gender. By encapsulating these global issues in microcosm or magnifying personal predicaments until they become universally visible, she presents the body as an embodiment of dynamic human relations, locating herself at the nexus of author, artwork and audience.
Her artistic practice is based in performance art, photography and video, in which she explores themes of “East/West” and “self/other” within the contemporary context of global feminism. Her work deals mainly with cultural intersections created by globalization and asks what it means to be a citizen of the world today. She opens dialogues about “deterritorialization” and “disessentialization” in culture and how to transform socio-political landscapes through gestures. The gestures in her work are symbolic and metaphoric—at times subversive, meditative, subtle and/or humorous. They express her desire to transform everyday political life into art, as she strives to instil a model for social transformation. In her earlier works, the body represented an ideological confrontation or political alienation. She developed the idea of representation as a political tool to give visibility to those made invisible by dominant ideologies. In her newer works, she views the body as a bridge connecting East and West, past and present, creating a new version of hybridity and striving to transcend and mend. |