Date: 2022
Roles: Panelist
Collaborators: Asian Art Publication Lab, Pachinko Book Club
Invited panelist at the Asian Art Publication Lab Pachinko Book Club meeting with Bethany Or.
The goal of the AAPL to foster an understanding of the Asian diaspora and of one’s self through discussions around the themes and issues of Asian diaspora and migration studies.
Free and open to the public.
Date: 2022
Roles: Facilitator, Panelist, Researcher
Collaborators: Je Suis MTL
Reclaiming Our Spaces: a discussion on territory, heritage, identity and place-keepign in Tio’tià:ke
In what ways are urban spaces complicit in the erasure of BIPOC presence? In what ways does Western architecture go counter to indigenous ways of relating to the world around us? How can place-making and place-keeping be realized and meaningful in the contemporary context for cultures diverging from the dominant one?
These were some of the themes raised in this informal public discussion held between myself and Carling Sioui as part of the Exposition : Entre le passé & le présent / Between Past & Present exhibition at WIP Gallery, organized by Je suis Montréal / I am Montreal.
Carling is currently pursuing her Master’s in Landscape Architecture and is working in collaboration with the INRS, Mikana and the municipality on a project to re-think certain public spaces from an indigenous perspective. I am and have been involved with the Chinese community here in Montreal, and more recently with anti-gentrification and community-building efforts in Chinatown, which was recently awarded partial heritage status and had its enlarged borders officially recognized, in January.
Both of us tried to express the perspectives, connection points and historical differences from our respective communities (without purporting to be 100% representative of those communities) around topics such as legacies of colonialism, and our relationship to territory, culture and land.
Date: 2022
Roles: Moderator, Facilitator
Collaborators: Super Boat People, MAI, Accès Asie
Table ronde — Racisme anti-asiatique et pandémie : quel bilan?
En Mars 2022, j’ai animé un panel bilingue pour Confrontons le racisme ensemble!, un évènement organisé par Festival Accès Asie et le collectif Super Boat People dans le cadre de la Semaine d’action contre le racisme du Québec : deux journées d’activités axées sur le partage et la sensibilisation aux expériences des communautés PANDC (personnes autochtones, noires et de couleur) ainsi qu’aux enjeux du racisme systémique tel que vécu par les membres de ces communautés.
Lors du 2e panel, j’ai invité 5 personnes (May Chiu, Viet Tran, Rebecca Ng, Diamond Yao et Julie Tran) de nous partager leur perspective sur le racisme anti-asiatique, les initiatives qui en ont émergé, et leur rupture ou continuité avec des mouvements passés ou futurs.