Join artist Eelyn Lee and writer-researcher Dr Yen Oi for an illustrated discussion about their ongoing collaboration – a call and response creative dialogue between artist and writer. You’ll hear about how both draw on migratory energies and ancestral stories, producing work that creates new orientations, shaped by East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) diasporic experiences.
In 2023, Eelyn invited Yen to make a written response to her exhibition, Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 (Bloc Projects, Sept-Oct 2023), an immersive video installation reimagining ESEA identities through the creation of four new mythological characters. In Yen’s short story response, The Temple, Sheffield becomes Sharefield, where the smell of jasmine fills the streets, and the gallery is a portal to another time and place. This year, Yen has written Three Constellations, a series of poems in response to Eelyn’s Saam Sing 三星, a moving image work currently on display at Graves Gallery.
The event will take place in the gallery with an opportunity to view Saam Sing 三星 and watch extracts from Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸. Yen will present the first ever public readings from The Temple and Three Constellations.
Get to know Eelyn Lee in her interview from our Meet the Locals archive.
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