Blog | Angela YT Chan

2022

Visiting Artist Lecturer: BFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College

In their studio spaces, I gave 1-1 tutor sessions with students on the BFA Fine Art course across the undergraduate year groups. I specifically offered reflections on their works in-progress with critical research approaches, more environmentally and socially 'sustainable' practices, and suggested readings for theory and artworks. (November 4, 2022 → March 6, 2023)

November 4, 2022

teaching
Imagining new climate narratives through speculative fiction Workshop at Bow Arts, London

Using speculative fiction and sci-fi as a springboard, this workshop was about how we can use fiction as a vehicle to imagine, agitate, and move towards new climate and ecological narratives that speak to our own experiences. I delivered a workshop for Bow Arts as part of their Visions in the Nunnery, #FirstThursdays Late Opening.

November 3, 2022

workshop science fiction
Eelyn Lee's 'Hong Kong Future Diaspora' Exibition at Bloc Projects, Sheffield

The exhibition shows Eelyn Lee's work-in-progress of her project 'Hong Kong Future Diaspora', which invites me and other collaborator through a 'process of devising a series of contemporary mythical characters Centring embodiment, conversation and improvisation, the group has created worlds and characters that forge a speculative ‘Hong Kong-ness.’' While I did not make it to perform during the live performance/ritual to bless the opening of the exhibition, choreographer Jan-Ming Lee took my place for my character The Navigator, and with our rehearsed movements. (October 20, 2022 → November 22, 2022)

October 20, 2022

exhibited in collaboration
Climate Justice Riders for Creatives Workshop for the Kaleidoscope Network

This collective 'climate justice rider' writing exercise saw participants develop a short document that freelancers can send to employers to encourage better practice during contracting. These included asking for transparent commitments, making available the necessary resources and budget to ensure activities are climate and socially responsible. The document will work in a similar way to an Access Rider.

October 15, 2022

workshop
Loss and Found Sound Memorial Exhibition with Dissonant Futures Collective at Common Space, Bradford

The Loss and Found Sound Memorial, created by Dissonant Futures, in collaboration with sculpture designer Kevin Logan and sound designers Camilo Tirado and Andréas Saenz De Sicilia, was on tour throughout the UK. As a friend to the project and for its exhibition in Bradford, I joined Dissonant Futures Collective for the installation and launch, speaking to visitors and the local radio about its intentions and themes.

October 12, 2022

critical friend workshop
Visiting Lecturer: Climate Colonialism - Power, Knowledge and Justice for MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths College, London

I taught a module strand to introduce and broaden students' understandings of the colonial histories of climate change, and how to build their own interdisciplinary critical engagements and arts projects within their existing and explorative practices. (October 10, 2022 → October 16, 2022)

October 10, 2022

teaching workshop
Arts Practices and the Climate Justice Workshop for AcrossRCA at RCA, London

For AcrossRCA, a new approach to creative learning in the face of global challenges across the Royal College of Art programmes, I gave a presentation on my arts practice, before joining a panel with Tori Tsui and Matt Toombs.

October 5, 2022

talk
Climate Change Histories for The Curatorial Thing with SixtyEight Art Institute's Audacious Landscapes in Copenhagen

I delivered a presentation with project examples of how I approach my research and art practices through climate change histories for the Fifth Edition of The Curatorial Thing and by the invitation of Heidi Hart. I also spoke on a panel with other researchers - Ariana Kalliga and Beatriz Colomina (keynote) - who presented alongside me in our session titled 'Regenerative Architectures in Climate Art History Perspective'. (October 1, 2022 → October 8, 2022)

October 1, 2022

talk conference / symposium
Huntingdonshire Futures: Collective Imagination Talk and Workshop with The Place Bureau, Residents and Huntingdonshire District Council in St. Ives

For the second Huntingdonshire Futures workshop, I gave a talk with workshop prompts to about 80 participants from throughout the borough, asking them to think about the future of Huntingdonshire through speculative methods and finding the agency of authorship. Alongside other guest speakers, we collectively covered four key topics: People, Place, Economy, Environment, where I was invited by The Place Bureau to engage participants on the environmental futures they are thinking about.

September 27, 2022

talk science fiction policy
Inaugural WORLDING programme with Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab

Together with socially-engaged artist Hwa Young Jung and Ruth McCullough (director, Abandon Normal Devices), we made up team WILD NATURES for the first WORLDING. The 2-week intensive programme aimed to develop potentials for co-creative processes with real-time 3D with Hwa Young's project – a paper-based game made with young people excluded from mainstream education in Northwest England, that explores on their terms the intersection of criminal and environmental justice. (September 27, 2022 → October 4, 2022)

September 27, 2022

workshop conference / symposium science fiction collaboration
Digital Decarbonisation Consensus & Conjectures Workshop with Anne Pasek for Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline

I joined 23 other arts practitioners, led by [Anna Pasek](https://www.annepasek.com/) to bring together a collective 'Decarbonisation and the Arts Consensus Statement.' The collaborative gathering and workshopping spoke insightfully to working in this space: working and experimenting with digital media technologies while remaining aligned to opposing the social and climate injustices we operate in; navigating capacities individually, collectively and around institutions, and importantly, being creatively inventive to the climate issues beyond only the metrics of 'sustainability.'

September 13, 2022

workshop participation collaboration
Chinese Science Fiction + Art Talk for the 2nd ESEA Heritage Month

As part of the programming for ESEA Heritage Month, I spoke with my peers in the science and speculative fiction space, Sinjin Li, Yen Ooi and Mia Ma Chen about the Chinese SF and art.

September 6, 2022

talk science fiction
Young Climate Activists: Zine Making Workshop

I gave a collaging and zine making workshop for young people to 'explore the use of art and photography to address questions of climate justice and the health of the planet, inspired by Autograph's current exhibition Mónica de Miranda: The Island.

August 16, 2022

workshop youth group
everyday evolutions with our nonhuman neighbours Writing for BABLab Bio-arts Festival, in Birmingham

I was invited to write an essay to accompany the programme of workshops and printed zine for BAB Lab 2022, which took place 8 – 12 Aug 2022 across different venues around Birmingham. It was a programme of 15 workshops and talks by artists working with living materials; YEAST, FUNGI, CLAY, FLORA and the BODY. I write about the openness of bioarts that resists a definition; deconstructing the criteria for expertise to get involved, and provocations for artists interested in the area.

August 8, 2022

writing / publication
Climate Justice: Environmental Ethics Lecture at CIEE Global Institute in London

For CIEE's undergraduate course module in environmental ethics, I delivered a lecture to introduce to students the interconnected subjects of race, history, and colonialism when it comes to addressing contemporary environmental issues.

August 8, 2022

teaching
Justice For the Air We Breathe Talk for A Breath of Fresh Air Festival at Wellcome Collection

I gathered with Love Ssega, Janine Francois, Claire Ratinon – the guests I had invited to deliver workshops for Wellcome Collection's summer 2022 youth programme 'A Breath of Fresh Air' – to have a collective discussion about curation's the key themes of climate, race and health. We also shared more about the workshop activities they each ran during the programme, and youth participants contiuned their conversations with us individually during our smaller group chats in the Library.

August 6, 2022

talk workshop youth group
Climate Stencils: Feelings, Data and Change Workshop for Platfform Haf, Peak, Transport for Wales at Abergavenny Train Station in Abergavenny, Wales

I delivered a workshop that guided the young cohort to reshape their idea of what can constitute 'climate data' by creating a paper-based mood tracker customised with their main concerns to journal their evolving relationship with the changing climate. The session opened with conversations about how the youth group felt about climate change from their own experiences, engagements with the issues and their thoughts on the near future, before ideating and producing stencils for their own use.

June 28, 2022

workshop youth group
ESEA Artists Futures

Over a 2 year period, I was engaged with meetings and network organising for ESEA Artists’ Futures, research project that 'arose from artists’ intervention and whistleblowing in 2020 about the systemic failures in the visual arts, in particular the failures of the ESEA visual arts landscape.' (June 24, 2022 → June 18, 2024)

June 24, 2022

workshop participation community organising working with
Climate Stencils: Unfinished Histories: Climate Change Framings Workshop for Feminist Futures School in Dro, Italy

I delivered a workshop that guided the participants to reshape their idea of what can constitute 'climate data' by creating a paper-based mood tracker customised with their main concerns to journal their evolving relationship with the changing climate. The session opened with conversations about how the youth group felt about climate change from their own experiences, engagements with the issues and their thoughts on the near future, before ideating and producing stencils for their own use. (June 17, 2022 → June 19, 2022)

June 17, 2022

workshop
Talk for FRAMEBURN: Cli-fi Shorts Screening with Social Cinema, London

I enjoyed Social Cinema London's screening of climated-related sci-fi short films, including Pumzi (2009) directed by Wanuri Kahiu, before joining Anna Mill and Francis Gene-Rowe to talk about social, racial and environmental justice narratives in science fiction.

June 8, 2022

talk science fiction

Visiting Artist Lecturer: BFA Fine Art at Goldsmiths College

Imagining new climate narratives through speculative fiction Workshop at Bow Arts, London

Eelyn Lee's 'Hong Kong Future Diaspora' Exibition at Bloc Projects, Sheffield

Climate Justice Riders for Creatives Workshop for the Kaleidoscope Network

Loss and Found Sound Memorial Exhibition with Dissonant Futures Collective at Common Space, Bradford

Visiting Lecturer: Climate Colonialism - Power, Knowledge and Justice for MFA Art Writing at Goldsmiths College, London

Arts Practices and the Climate Justice Workshop for AcrossRCA at RCA, London

Climate Change Histories for The Curatorial Thing with SixtyEight Art Institute's Audacious Landscapes in Copenhagen

Huntingdonshire Futures: Collective Imagination Talk and Workshop with The Place Bureau, Residents and Huntingdonshire District Council in St. Ives

Inaugural WORLDING programme with Co-Creation Studio at MIT Open Documentary Lab

Digital Decarbonisation Consensus & Conjectures Workshop with Anne Pasek for Sunlight Doesn't Need a Pipeline

Chinese Science Fiction + Art Talk for the 2nd ESEA Heritage Month

Young Climate Activists: Zine Making Workshop

everyday evolutions with our nonhuman neighbours Writing for BABLab Bio-arts Festival, in Birmingham

Climate Justice: Environmental Ethics Lecture at CIEE Global Institute in London

Justice For the Air We Breathe Talk for A Breath of Fresh Air Festival at Wellcome Collection

Climate Stencils: Feelings, Data and Change Workshop for Platfform Haf, Peak, Transport for Wales at Abergavenny Train Station in Abergavenny, Wales

ESEA Artists Futures

Climate Stencils: Unfinished Histories: Climate Change Framings Workshop for Feminist Futures School in Dro, Italy

Talk for FRAMEBURN: Cli-fi Shorts Screening with Social Cinema, London