Research-Creation Projects
The Sari-Sari Xchange, 2022-Present
https://sarisarixchange.mcmaster.ca/
The Sari-Sari Xchange is a community-building research & creation project using Extended Reality (XR) (ie. Virtual, Augmented, Mixed Realities) to foster new works by artists from the Asian diaspora. We undertake exploration in emergent XR technologies and new storytelling techniques, address under-representation and issues of systemic racism as well as inaccessibility of these new technologies for both creators and users with disabilities. In Partnership with McMaster University, Centre[3] for Artistic+Social Practice, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and Tangled Art+Disability. Big thank you to the Social Sciences and Humanites Research Council (SSHRC)!
https://sarisarixchange.mcmaster.ca/
The Sari-Sari Xchange is a community-building research & creation project using Extended Reality (XR) (ie. Virtual, Augmented, Mixed Realities) to foster new works by artists from the Asian diaspora. We undertake exploration in emergent XR technologies and new storytelling techniques, address under-representation and issues of systemic racism as well as inaccessibility of these new technologies for both creators and users with disabilities. In Partnership with McMaster University, Centre[3] for Artistic+Social Practice, Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival, and Tangled Art+Disability. Big thank you to the Social Sciences and Humanites Research Council (SSHRC)!
Centre for Margins, 2019-Present
Centre for Margins (C4M) is an experimental and performative artist collective (Carmela Laganse + Taien Ng-Chan) formed in response to a number of general observations and experiences within artist-run centres, university art departments, and the Canadian arts community as a whole, particularly in regards to the under-representation and often complete absence of BIPOC folks (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour). We envision C4M as a creative intervention space bridging academia and our own arts practices. We are interested in the marginal but also in the non-binary.
The Reception was our launch event, organized in collaboration with the Coalition of Black and Racialized Artists (COBRA), Centre3 for Artistic and Social Practice, the NEW Committee of the Hamilton Artists Inc., and The Socrates Project. Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, The Socrates Project and McMaster University.
Centre for Margins (C4M) is an experimental and performative artist collective (Carmela Laganse + Taien Ng-Chan) formed in response to a number of general observations and experiences within artist-run centres, university art departments, and the Canadian arts community as a whole, particularly in regards to the under-representation and often complete absence of BIPOC folks (Black, Indigenous, People of Colour). We envision C4M as a creative intervention space bridging academia and our own arts practices. We are interested in the marginal but also in the non-binary.
The Reception was our launch event, organized in collaboration with the Coalition of Black and Racialized Artists (COBRA), Centre3 for Artistic and Social Practice, the NEW Committee of the Hamilton Artists Inc., and The Socrates Project. Sponsored by the Canada Council for the Arts, The Socrates Project and McMaster University.
Hamilton Perambulatory Unit (HPU), 2014-present
hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org
FOUNDING MEMBER
HPU (Donna Akrey + Taien Ng-Chan) is an ongoing collaboration to explore, experiment, and engage with historical ideas around perambulation and processes of mapping, as well as with current concepts and artistic research-creation practices. Our methodologies have included locative media experimentation, sensory synesthesia poetry-writing, and found material sculpture-making. Our framework of strata-mapping has been presented internationally through public participatory walks in Hamilton, Windsor, Montreal, Galway Ireland, London England, Sydney Australia, Tokyo Japan, Cape Town South Africa, and the online sphere of Zoom.
hamiltonperambulatoryunit.org
FOUNDING MEMBER
HPU (Donna Akrey + Taien Ng-Chan) is an ongoing collaboration to explore, experiment, and engage with historical ideas around perambulation and processes of mapping, as well as with current concepts and artistic research-creation practices. Our methodologies have included locative media experimentation, sensory synesthesia poetry-writing, and found material sculpture-making. Our framework of strata-mapping has been presented internationally through public participatory walks in Hamilton, Windsor, Montreal, Galway Ireland, London England, Sydney Australia, Tokyo Japan, Cape Town South Africa, and the online sphere of Zoom.
This map shows the relationship between places in Atom Egoyan's "Ararat"
Mapping Cinematographic Territories
Research Assistant, 2012-2014
SSHRC-funded project headed by Dr. Sébastien Caquard, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
Films frame our geographic imagination. They associate images and stories with places, and contribute to the shaping of how we perceive and experience these places. Through the places they include and exclude, films contribute to the production of "cognitive maps" and frame the way we envision and understand the world. The cartography of cinematographic narratives can then serve to explore how films may shape our spatial imaginary. It can also help to reveal the geographic structure of stories. The overall goal of this project is to develop a range of tools, methodologies, practices and concepts that could contribute to the improvement of the cartography of narratives in general and of cinematographic narratives in particular.
For more information, visit the project's website at atlascine.org
Research Assistant, 2012-2014
SSHRC-funded project headed by Dr. Sébastien Caquard, Assistant Professor, Department of Geography, Planning and Environment, Concordia University
Films frame our geographic imagination. They associate images and stories with places, and contribute to the shaping of how we perceive and experience these places. Through the places they include and exclude, films contribute to the production of "cognitive maps" and frame the way we envision and understand the world. The cartography of cinematographic narratives can then serve to explore how films may shape our spatial imaginary. It can also help to reveal the geographic structure of stories. The overall goal of this project is to develop a range of tools, methodologies, practices and concepts that could contribute to the improvement of the cartography of narratives in general and of cinematographic narratives in particular.
For more information, visit the project's website at atlascine.org
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Mile End Walking Group, Montréal, 2013
In collaboration with Natalie Doonan of Le/The Sensorium, the Mile End Walking Group held a series of public walks in the Mile End district of Montréal, each engaging with a different theme such as the Situationist dérive, serendipity generators, and freeganism. The series culminated with the MIDSUMMER MILE END FORAGING TOUR, lead by Leah Garfield-Wright of Compost Montreal, where we foraged for the edible plants and medicinal herbs growing wild in the city. The tour also launched a special publication/map that offers help in the identification of useful weeds, as well as resources for junk hunting and gathering. Documentation at http://www.lesensorium.com/2013/08/midsummer-mile-end-foraging-tour.html |