Exhibition: Stateless visual arts exhibition brings together Asian artists as part of the Kakilang Festival
State-less is the premiere of a stunning new visual arts exhibition bringing together for the first time in the UK 10 internationally acclaimed East and South-east Asian artists exploring the tangible borders and invisible boundaries that define their identities as part of this year’s 2023 Kakilang Festival.
This four-week exhibition examines their world through a variety of contemporary mediums: moving images, photography and interactive installations.
From highlighting the journey of a man who became stateless during the Sino-Vietnamese War, urban sounds of Taiwan, post-tsunami Japan, to permaculture in Hong Kong, the wide range of works present perspectives not often encountered by mainstream Western audiences.
Participating artists include Tiffany Chung who has presented a solo exhibition at the Smithsonian American Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Venice biennale.
The exhibition is conceived and curated by designer, artist and Kakilang Associate Artistic Director Ling Tan in collaboration with Two Temple Place, near Victoria Embankment, where it will be shown.
Ling Tan said: “This unique exhibition brings together an exciting group of acclaimed South-east and East Asian artists and shows the facets of their work that are often unknown to mainstream western audiences.
“I hope that we can explore questions surrounding how we as individuals and as a collective, make sense of the environment we live in, the tangible borders and invisible boundaries that define who we are, its politics, the relationship between people, with nature, and broadly, the world.”
Kakilang’s artistic director An-Ting Chang said: “I started Kakilang Festival with the intention of offering unique perspectives from a variety of artists to help bridge the gap in the understanding of South-east and East Asian cultures here.
“But through listening to all of their different and fascinating attitudes and philosophies, I myself have learnt a lot about the place I originally called home.
“For this Kakilang Festival, we gather “our kakilang” from many different places and with different disciplines and artforms and invite audiences to question the reality of state boundaries, racial stereotypes and other failures of the imagination that still exist in peoples’ minds.”
Set in Two Temple Place, with its neo-Gothic architecture contrasting sharply with the built environment of East and South-east Asia.
Website: https://www.kakilang.org.uk/festival-2023
Picture: An image that will feature in the exhibition by Wang Wei Picture: Wang Wei
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