Place: Makiki District Park
Date: February 14, 2012
Time: 6-8 PM
Speaker: Ms. Gaye Chan
Gaye Chan is a conceptual artist who is recognized equally for her individual and collaborative work. Her work has taken place on the web, in publications and in galleries. Her recent work often ruminates on how cartography and photography simultaneously offer and occlude information. She has had exhibitions at Art in General (New York City), Artspeak (Vancouver), Gallery 4A (Sydney), Asia Society (New York City), Honolulu Academy of Art (Honolulu), SF Camerawork (San Francisco), The Contemporary Museum (Honolulu), YYZ Artist Outlet (Toronto).
Chan’s collaborative projects include being a part of Eating in Public and Downwind Productions. Eating in Public is an anti-capitalism project nudging a little space outside of the commodity system. Following the path of pirates and nomads, hunters and gathers, diggers and levelers, they gather at people’s homes, plant free food gardens on private and public land, set up free stores, all without permission. Downwind examines the impact of colonialism, capitalism, and tourism. Through agitprop commodities and web media, DownWind takes up Waikiki as an actual specific site/sight and a metaphor for countless other places where self-sustaining peoples have been dislocated for profit.
Gaye Chan was born in Hong Kong and immigrated to the United States in 1969. She received her MFA from San Francisco Art Institute and is currently a professor and the Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at the University of Hawai'i.
Chan’s work has been supported by the Creative Capital Foundation.
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