Recollective - Representing the Ephemeral: wen yau on Performance, Protest and Memory

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wen yau, "Recollective Representing the Ephemeral: wen yau on Performance, Protest and Memory," 2019

This Recollective event asks: How do we understand performance art through secondary documentation? What are the limits of the archive in communicating the power of protest or an act of resistance expressed through art?

Hong Kong based artist and researcher wen yau will present a performance-lecture exploring the challenges of representing performative action in an archival setting. Looking to the transmission of knowledge and culture through the performing body, articulated as 'The Repertoire' by scholar Diana Taylor, wen yau draws on her own experience at the intersection of arts and activism from the 2014 Occupy Central protests, also known as the Umbrella Movement. wen yau's auto-ethnographic research into ongoing political and cultural struggles in Hong Kong questions how we remember/re-enact gestures of solidarity from past and present generations of artists and dissidents.

Recollective: Vancouver Independent Archives Week is a series of free public events, panels, conversations, and screenings that highlight artist-run centre archives, artists working with archives, and the intersections between contemporary art practices and independent archives. Co-organized by a collective of artist-run centres in Vancouver, Recollective will look beyond our community to host a series of national and international presenters and respondents to examine these issues in a range of global contexts throughout 2019. More events coming in the Fall.