CAN Festival is back in 2021!
This years festival is taking place from Monday 15th February to Friday 30th April. CAN will host ten weeks of eclectic and surprising new exhibitions, performances, screenings, comedy and scratch nights from British East and South East Asian artists.
I will be participating this year in the CAN x TWO TEMPLE PLACE production. This project is co produced with Two Temple Place and conceived and led by Artistic Director An-Ting Chang, bringing together of host artists to respond to the glorious architecture and historical context of Two Temple Place.
The work examines the very different immigration experiences of rich, influential people such as the American, William Waldorf Astor who built Two Temple Place in 1895 and the Chinese community who emigrated to the UK from that same time to the present day.
I will post updates here showing my work in progress during the festival.
CAN X TWO TEMPLE PLACE
Private View with a Digital Exhibition
Fri 19th Feb 2021 7.30pm to 8.30pm
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CAN x TWO TEMPLE PLACE is a digital arts encounter between contemporary British Chinese artists and William Waldorf Astor’s architectural fantasia on the Embankment. Artists have been invited to respond to the historical context and architecture of this extraordinary neo-Gothic mansion, one of London’s hidden gems.
Using a variety of media, they examine the very different immigration experiences of the wealthy and influential like the American millionaire William Waldorf Astor who built Two Temple Place in 1895 and the largely poor Chinese people who have been emigrating to the UK from that time until now.
CAN x TWO TEMPLE PLACE is Digital Exhibition, two ‘live’ Performances plus workshops, talks, tours and opportunities to speak to the artists and curators.
This ambitious new Chinese Arts Now production, co-produced with Two Temple Place was conceived and led by CAN’s artistic director An-Ting Chang.
Exhibition artists: Chloe Wing, Donald Shek, Jasmin Kent Rodgman, Jack Tan
Curators: Rebecca Hone, Jodie Gilliam