YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES presents CHARLIE CHAN AND THE YELLOW PERIL

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES presents CHARLIE CHAN AND THE YELLOW PERIL

Thursday, November 12  |  4:30 PM

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What does it mean to be Asian? What does it mean to be a Chinese Canadian? How do Asian histories, particularly those of Chinese Canadians, inform what’s happening today during the COVID-19 health pandemic?

In partnership with the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies and the UBC Department of English Language and Literatures, the Vancouver Art Gallery is pleased to host the international premiere of a new performance work by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES on the subject of Asian racialization and the multiple meanings of the term “vulnerability” in the unfolding global pandemic.

Following this live performance, the artists will discuss their new commission with Melissa Karmen Lee, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery, and Danielle Wong, Assistant Professor in the Department of English Language and Literatures at the University of British Columbia.

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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES (YHCHI) is made up of Young-hae Chang (Korea) and Marc Voge (USA). Based in Seoul, Korea, and widely acclaimed as trailblazers in internet art, they create signature animated texts set to their own music in 26 languages. Their work has been shown at major art institutions around the world, including Tate Modern, London; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Whitney Museum of American Art and the New Museum, New York. Their work has also been included in the Venice and São Paulo Biennials, among others. They have won the Webby Award for best art website (2001); received a Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grant to Artists award, New York (2001); and were recipients of the Rockefeller Foundation Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellowship (2012–2013). In 2018, M+, Hong Kong’s new museum of visual culture, acquired the artist duo’s entire body of work, YHCHANG.COM/AP2: THE COMPLETE WORKS, including all of their past and future works. In 2020, YHCHI gave the Renato Poggioli Lecture at Harvard University. yhchang.com