Furen Dai

Offworlds

Thursday, November 7, 2019, 7:00 – 9:00pm

MA Curatorial Practice, in collaboration with Asia Art Archive in America, presents artists Furen Dai and Christopher K Ho and special guests Matthew Shen Goodman, Owen Duffy, Martha Tuttle, Luke Cheng, Jean Shin, Daisy Nam, Philip Poon, Celine Wong Katzman, j.p.mot and Maia Chao. They will present a series of propositions responding to the strangeness of Asian and Asian-American lived experience in relation to historical meta-narratives and notions of "home"—country politics, history and language.

Furen Dai is an artist and the collection and program assistant at Asia Art Archive in America. Her artistic practice has focused largely on the economy of the cultural industry, and how languages lose function, usage and history. Dai’s hybrid art practice utilizes video, sound, sculpture, painting and collaboration. Her years as a professional translator and interest in linguistic studies have guided her artistic practice since 2015. She has exhibited work at the National Art Center, Tokyo; Athens Digital Arts Festival, Greece; International Video Art Festival Now&After, Moscow, Russia; and Edinburgh Artists’ Moving Image Festival, Scotland, amongst others. She is currently a resident of the International Studio & Curatorial Program.

Christopher K. Ho is a speculative artist based in New York, Hong Kong and Telluride, Colorado. He is known for a practice that includes making, organizing, writing and teaching. His multi-component projects address privilege, community and capital, and draw equally from learned material about, and lived encounters with, power and otherness in a bipolar and increasingly networked world. Recent solo exhibitions include "Embassy S_ites" at Tomorrow Maybe, Hong Kong (2019); "Aloha to the World" at the Don Ho Terrace at the Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York (2018); "Dear John" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York (2018); and "CX 888" at de Sarthe Gallery, Hong Kong (2018). He is a recent recipient of a Rauschenberg Foundation Residency and is currently at work on a project for Asia Society Hong Kong. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Artforum, YISHU, Art in America, Modern Painters, LEAP, The South China Morning Post, Hyperallergic and ArtReview. He received his BFA and BS from Cornell University and his MPhil from Columbia University.

Mezzanine

We narrate us is pleased to announce, Mezzanine, a group exhibition co-curated by Jennifer (Chia-ling) Ho and Min Sun Jeon featuring works by Furen Dai, Moko Fukuyama, Pei-Ling Ho, Hai-Hsin Huang, Qinmin Liu, Anh Thuy Nguyen, Hyunjung Rhee, and Joanna Tam.

Mezzanine is an exhibition comprised of contemporary women artists from East and Southeast Asia living in the US, sharing their stories with their own voice. Society narrates us into roles that can be overwhelmingly difficult to break free. Growing up in Asia and coming to the US to pursue their artistic career has led these artists to construct the assertion and reflection of themselves with the pre-imposed barriers and conflicts of being an immigrant, and being a woman. Featured artists not only challenge the pre-existing western perspectives of the yellow women, but also the conventional idea of what it means to be an Asian woman.

Performance
Thursday, September, 13, 2019

7:30pm
Ground Floor Gallery Space,
Pfizer Building
(630 Flushing Ave, 1st Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11206)

Join us for the debute performance ofCoucher by Pei-ling Ho

Panel Discussion
Thursday, September, 19, 2019

6:30 - 8:00pm
Ground Floor Gallery Space,
Pfizer Building
(630 Flushing Ave, 1st Fl, Brooklyn, NY 11206)

Join us with a discussion on
"Asian women artists in the context of the social and institutional structure"
with Furen Dai, Jean Shin, Xin Wang, and Moko Fukuyama