Community Panel Discussion

Kakilang (formerly Chinese Arts Now) produces and presents world-class art, and pioneers multi-disciplinary artforms from a wide spectrum of Southeast and East Asian voices.

Kakilang

A panel discussion hosted by writer, actor and filmmaker and Associate Artistic Director at Kakilang, Daniel York  Loh.

Two Temple Place

<h3>A panel discussion hosted by writer, actor and filmmaker and Associate Artistic Director at Kakilang, Daniel York Loh, to unpack the key themes and issues highlighted in State-less 無國界 exhibition. </h3><h3>Daniel will be joined by a range of individuals all engaged in their own practices that explore the exhibition’s core themes of identity, geographies, borders, migration narratives, the homogenisation of experiences and identities within East and South East Asian communities, the ethics of representation and more. </h3><h3>Meet the panelists:</h3>Yuen Chan (Academic)Yuen Chan is a senior lecturer in the Department of Journalism at City, University of London. As a print and broadcast journalist in Hong Kong, Yuen covered news in the territory in the years leading up to and after the handover of sovereignty from Britain to China. She has also been a correspondent stationed in Shanghai and Beijing. Yuen was previously senior lecturer at the School of Journalism and Communication at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. Wang Wei (Exhibiting Artist)Wang Wei is a photographer based in London and from China. She graduated from the Central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) in Beijing. Her interest in photography is wide and varied, and her current specialisations are in portraits, still life, interiors, city landscapes and architecture. For the images, She likes them from an ordinary perspective, not exaggerated, but with fine details. She loves natural lights, calm composition, and with its perspective.In 2006, her work was exhibited at the ZKM Museum in Germany. The work was also published in the accompanying book, 'Totalstadt. Beijing Case. High-Speed Urbanisation in China.' In 2009 her portrait series 'Standard Room' was commended for the Taylor Wessing Prize and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery.2018, she was part of ‘209 Women' project. To mark 100 years since some women achieved the right to vote, we aim to take over parliament with 209 new photographic portraits of all female MPs, shot exclusively by female photographers, and shown in the Palace of Westminster at Portcullis House. 2021, she was part of INSIDE OUT: Dyslexia: Beautiful Minds project at Design Museum.Diana Yeh (Academic)Diana Yeh is Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Culture and the Creative Industries and Associate Dean of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion (SCC) at City, University of London. She is Founder of eseahub and Principal Investigator of the project, ‘Responding to COVID-19 Anti-Asian Racial Violence through Community Care, Solidarity and Resistance’. Recent articles: ‘Becoming “British East Asian and Southeast Asian”: Anti-racism, Chineseness, and Political Love in the Creative and Cultural Industries’ (2021) and ‘COVID-19, Anti-Asian Racial Violence and The Borders of Chineseness’ (2020).Photo Copyright - Kate Peters, Two Temple Place 2022

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