Faculty of Art
YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES PRESENTS GUNS ‘N ASIANS
When: Fri. Nov. 13 @ 4-5 pm PDT
Where: Zoom.us (Link TBA)
RSVP: https://bit.ly/37jndaR
Join us for the international premiere of GUNS ‘N ASIANS, a new performance work by YOUNG-HAE CHANG HEAVY INDUSTRIES on the subject of Asian racialization and “vulnerability” in the unfolding global pandemic. Danielle Wong, Assistant Professor of English, and Melissa Lee, Director of Education and Public Programs at the Vancouver Art Gallery, will moderate a conversation and Q&A with the artists after the screening.
This workshop is sponsored by the Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies.
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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 SaÞo 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
Still from GUNS ‘N ASIANS, 2020, original text and music soundtrack, Courtesy of the Artists.
