Upcoming
activities
October 1-December 31, 2011
The RONDO/Marienmühle Studio Residency
Kultur Service Gesellschaft Steiermark (Graz, Austria)
November 30, 2011
Round/about
RONDO (Graz, Austria)
Group exhibition with Kate Howlett-Jones, Matthias Kronlachner, Eunsun
Lee, Maryam Mohamadi, Crystal O'Brien-Kupfner, David Pirrò, Andrea
Posada, Meri-Pauliina Sundén, Tuuli Sunden-Uusimäki, Karen
Tam, Evalie Wagner, Marian Weger, WG3.
April 28-July 7, 2012
Sinopticon {contemporary chinoiserie in contemporary art}
Curated by Eliza Gluckman
Saltram House (National Trust), Plymouth Arts Centre, Plymouth City Museum
and Art Gallery, Plymouth College of Art Gallery
This multi-sited exhibition across the city of Plymouth features the work
of Suki Chan, Gayle Chong Kwan, Stephanie Douet, CHristian Jankowski,
Isaac Julien, Tasng KinWah, WESSIELING, Grayson Perry, Ed Pien, Meekyoung
Shin, Karen Tam, Erika Tan, Laura White.
(Sinopticon website)
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Ongoing
activities
September 15, 2011-June 15, 2012
Location/Dislocation (Curated by Denise Ryner in collaboration
with Barbara Fischer)
The Justina M. Barnicke Gallery and the Jackman Humanities Institute at
the University of Toronto
Opening Reception: Thursday September 15, 2011, 4-6pm
This year-long exhibition of works by Brendan Fernandes, Jamelie Hassan,
Oliver Husain, Will Kwan, and Karen Tam examines spatial, environmental
and architectural manifestations of cultural dislocation.
Sweet & Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants by John
Jung
Published by Yin & Yang Press(buy)
Essay contribution
"Sweet and Sour examines the history of Chinese family restaurants
in the U. S. and Canada. Why did many Chinese immigrants enter this business
around the end of the 19th century? What conditions made it possible for
Chinese to open and succeed in operating restaurants after they emigrated
to North America? How did Chinese restaurants manage to attract non-Chinese
customers, given that they had little or no acquaintance with the Chinese
style of food preparation and many had vicious hostility toward Chinese
immigrants? The goal of Sweet and Sour is to understand how the small
Chinese family restaurants functioned. Narratives provided by 10 Chinese
who grew up in their family restaurants in all parts of the North America
provide valuable insights on the role that this ethnic business had on
their lives. Is there any future for this type of immigrant enterprise
in the modern world of franchised and corporate owned eateries or will
it soon, like the Chinese laundry, be a relic of history."
Everyone Was Mushu Fighting! is a pink vinyl cut-out of dragons
chasing after a plate of mushu pork, installed on the glass staircase
at the National Glass Centre (Sunderland, UK) more
Breathe Chongqing 2009 residency at 501 Artspace, co-organized
by Chinese Arts Centre in Manchester (Chongqing, China)
view temporary blog
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News
2011
Review. “Installation brings East and West together,” Robert
Reid. Waterloo: The Record, March 18 read
Article. “When East meets East,” Mike Landry. Saint John:
Telegraph-Journal, Jan. 30
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