Arts and Chinese Heritage

University of the Arts London

Grant period

2024

Location

UK

The Decolonising Art Institute, at the University of the Arts London, was founded to challenge colonial legacies, altering ways of seeing, listening, thinking and making in order to drive cultural, social and institutional change. With Foundation support, the Institute will create a network of leading researchers and academics who have been working on artistic engagement with the history of early Chinese immigration. Researchers across six academic institutions in the UK, US, Canada and Germany will share insights into their research and develop content for workshops which explore artists’ engagement with the history of early Chinese immigration in their respective locations.

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2022 - 2023

US

Wing Luke Museum

Support for a community-based process to plan and design a public art masterplan to interpret the significant stories of the historic sites of the Eng Family Homestead (one of the last remaining and most intact single-family homes in the Chinatown-International District in Seattle) and adjacent Canton Alley.

 

2022 - 2023

US

The Chinese Culture Center San Francisco

Support for a research and community-building project centered on facilitating relationships between multidisciplinary artists and history bearers (descendants, land stewards, family archivists and institutions). The research project will focus on 3 different themes: personal archives, family associations, the history of railroad construction and mining.

2023 - 2024

UK

New Earth Theatre

Initiating research into and creative exploration of the history of forced deportation of  Chinese seamen in Liverpool

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