Practise Till We Meet. February 18–May 28, 2023. esea contemporary. Manchester – UK.
‘Practise Till We Meet’ explores diasporic experiences, the condition of migration, and the challenges and actions taken to create a just life in a new place. Personal and political, traumatic and humorous, it looks across geography and through generations to consider how individual and community perspectives become intertwined with global upheavals.
Hanlu Zhang, Curator “This exhibition not only presents, but also creates encounters. We meet for the sake of getting to know each other, aware of a shared violent history (Koki Tanaka); for workshops connecting us to our past homeland (Audrey Albert); for a role-play game session telling migrants’ pasts (Asia-Art-Activism); and for collective performance and balance exercises (Isaac Chong Wai). We meet on an experimental jury panel (Liu Weiwei); at a “proxy conference” (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research); or under a sign in a foreign language (Mimian Hsu)”.
The participating artists incorporate approaches such as community engagement, performance, interactivity and social experiment in their works as exercises of connecting and reconnecting.
The work on display includes moving images, installations, photographs, painting and newly commissioned sculpture. The artists and collectives will hold events at esea contemporary’s new Communal Project Space, creating displays which grow and change throughout the exhibition.
