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Detail of Chun Hua Catherine Dong's The Arrival

Multidisciplinary artist and Emily Carr alumna Chun Hua Dong debuts a new performance about immigration and globalization.

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Chun Hua Catherine Dong brings her politically charged durational performance to Surrey Art Gallery and Island Studio.

We live in increasingly complicated political times. Our bodies are compromised and controlled by multiple governing forces. Through her performative work, Chinese-born, Montreal-based artist Chun Hua Catherine Dong explores the intricacies of these relations through the use of repetitive gesture, interaction, and duration. Time itself becomes a medium for exploring and expressing the nature of these relations. AgentC Projects, in partnership with Surrey Art Gallery, are thrilled to bring Chun Hua Catherine Dong back to Vancouver for a performance and artist residency.

Dong will be performing a new work titled The Undocumented at the April 14 opening of Surrey Art Gallery’s spring exhibitions Flow: Works from the Permanent Collection; Elizabeth Hollick: Body Politic, and Ben Bogart: Watching and Dreaming.The event runs from 6:30 to 9:00 pm at Surrey Art Gallery (13750 88 Ave in Bear Creek Park.) The Undocumented is an extension of themes Dong investigates in her performance The Wall, which Dong describes as “…seek[ing] intersections created by experiences of immigration and globalization, it raises awareness of our current global migration crisis, looking beyond national borders and our shared responsibilities as citizens of the world, and how we continue to see ourselves in each other, and how we create a space that is grounded in inclusiveness and respect for the dignity and freedom we all deserve.”

Dong will also be an artist-in-residence at Island Studio (1551 Duranleau St. Granville Island) April 4-11 where she will be continuing data collection for her participatory, research-based performance The Arrival that examines identity, place, and belonging through languages and gestures.

In her field research, Dong records the voices of her collaborators saying, “Where are you from?” with different tones and emotions. She also invites people who are unable to meet with her 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.

Chun Hua Catherine Dong will be gathering more voices as part of her residency at Island Studio. Please visit AgentCProjects.com for more information about how you can participate.

Chun Hua Catherine Dong is a visual artist working with performance, photography, and video. She received an MFA from Concordia University and a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art + Design. Dong has performed in multiple performance art festivals and venues such as The Great American Performance Art Festival in New York, Rapid Pulse Performance Art Festival in Chicago, Infr’Action in Venice, Quebec City Biennial, Kaunas Biennial in Lithuania, and The Aine Art Museum in Tornio. Her video work has been screened in Brazil, Mexico, Finland, Germany, Italy, Ireland, Colombia, Spain, The Netherlands, Finland, Poland, Greece, Romania, Croatia, Denmark, Sweden, Scotland, USA, and Canada.

Among many other awards and grants, Dong is the recipient of the Franklin Furnace Award for contemporary avante-garde art in New York in 2014. She is listed as one of the “10 Artists Who Are Reinventing History” by Canadian Art Magazine in 2017. AgentC Projects gratefully acknowledges the support of the City of Surrey’s Cultural Grants Program.