Post-Museum Post (18 Feb 2019): Artist Talk: Zou Zhao
Hi friend,
A Happy Lunar New Year to
you and Family.
Join us this Wednesday at
Your Mother Gallery (7pm) for Zou Zhao's artist talk.
It will be our first
artist talk of the year. We can bring some snacks, food and drinks to share
during the talk.
I first met Zou with her
friends at Food #03 - for SINQSA. Those of you who hung out at Food #03 might
remember her too. I think we had lots of fun trying to make time 'pass' -
waiting for events, customers, dreams, etc.
Zou is an artist who
works in the medium of performance, video and writing.
Do join us for this
artist talk is a great opportunity to learn more about her work and discuss
about performative practice, language, immigrants, diaspora,
neo-colonialism.
Huats,
Tien
—
20 Feb (Wed 7-9pm).
Artist Talk: Zou Zhao
Your Mother Gallery, 91A
Hindoo Road, Singapore 209126
Though Zou Zhao’s parents
are of Hu Bei origins, she migrated with her family to Singapore when she was
six years old. Thus her recent interest in language can be said to be a direct
result of her lived experience as a member of the Chinese diaspora in various
cities. Taking her departure from a specific interest in the gap between
English and Mandarin, her various works examine the role of the English
language in the neo-colonial distribution of knowledge today. Under the
globalized regime of signs, Zou Zhao recognises that an indeterminate diasporic
identity suffices to testify against any claim to a language’s transparency,
given that a contemporary subjectivity must be understood as produced by
“translation”. Her works up to now have taken the form of video, performance
and writing, and have examined the colonial legacy through the materiality of
the voice. In her performances and video works, Zou Zhao takes the voice as a
metonymy for the body, so as to raise questions surrounding identities and the
perceived notion of “autonomy” within language.
Zou Zhao was born in 1989 in Fujian, China. She
graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, University College London ,with a
BA in Fine Art, and completed her Masters degree in Contemporary Art Theory at
Goldsmiths, University of London, in 2014. Her work has been shown in London at
various venues, including the Camden Art Centre(2013), the UCL Art Museum
(2013), no.w.here art space(2014), the Chinese Visual Festival (2014) and at
Double Vision: Overseases Chinese Women Invitation Exhibition 2014, He Xiang
Ning Art Museum, China. She has also co-curated The strange impression of
seeing things for the first time at the Art Pavilion in 2013 in London, and was
the recipient of the Berenice Goodwin Award for Performance from the Slade
School of Fine Art, University College London in 2013.
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