Hong Kong Future Diaspora is part of Eelyn Lee’s project Performing Identities, exploring what it means to be East and Southeast Asian (ESEA) in the UK today. With a focus on Hong Kong diaspora in Sheffield, the artist and filmmaker is spending 2022–23 building relationships, workshopping and co-developing the project.
Eelyn is starting with ideas around the ‘Chinese’ takeaway and restaurant and identity. She's invited UK-based Hong Kongers across two generations of migration to join her for discussions around the shaping, holding and re-imagining of identities. These collaborators include artists, researchers, martial arts scholars and fellow makers: Clara Cheung, Dr Wayne Wong, Jan-Ming Lee, Angela YT Chan, Anna Chan, Jonathan Tang and Franco Ho.
In October 2022, an exhibition at Bloc Projects will share works-in-progress to mark the quarter-way point of this collective journey. There'll also be performance and discussions running alongside the exhibition, sketching the shifting landscapes of the wandering Hong Konger through past, present and future.
Get to know Eelyn Lee in her interview from our Meet the Locals archive.
Exhibition events:
Opening event
Thursday 20 October, 6–8pm, free – including a special opening performance at 6:30pm.
Online round-table discussion: 'Hong Kongness' and diaspora
Thursday 3 November, 7–8:30pm, free – booking required
Speakers include Eelyn as well as contributors of the project: martial arts scholar Wayne Wong; somatic and dance practitioner Jan-Ming Lee; and artist Clara Cheung.
Cantonese-led tour of HKFD
Saturday 5 November 4:15–4:45pm, free – book in advance, walk-ins also welcome.
Join Clara Cheung, artist and collaborator of HKFD, for a special Cantonese-led tour.
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