2024
UK
esea contemporary, the UK’s only non-profit art center specializing in presenting and platforming artists and art practices that identify with and are informed by East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) cultural backgrounds, has a mission to increase the visibility of contemporary art practices from the Chinese communities and their diasporas. The Foundation supports a series of podcasts and a panel discussion with artists responding to an object, image, text or recording that references early histories of Chinese immigration to the UK, drawn from their exploration of UK archives, collections and other public records.
Initiating research into and creative exploration of the history of forced deportation of Chinese seamen in Liverpool
Creating artistic renditions of Chinese diasporic experiences
Enabling artistic research into the historic experience of Chinese people in Australia from the 1850s Gold Rush era