Mel Chan
IT'S ONLY THE END OF THE WORLD: FINDING HOPE IN THE TIME OF PRECARITY
The central focus of her practice revolves around finding hope amidst the impending apocalypse, while simultaneously tracing the intricate relations between our dystopian situation and the legacies of Colonialism and (Neo)Colonialism.
Encompassing participatory performances, hypnotherapy, storytelling, painting, and video, my practices not only guide people to live with the crisis, but they also serve as an acknowledgement of historical causation and an investigation of remedies and hopes in times of precarity.
The central focus of her practice revolves around finding hope amidst the impending apocalypse, while simultaneously tracing the intricate relations between our dystopian situation and the legacies of Colonialism and (Neo)Colonialism.
Encompassing participatory performances, hypnotherapy, storytelling, painting, and video, my practices not only guide people to live with the crisis, but they also serve as an acknowledgement of historical causation and an investigation of remedies and hopes in times of precarity.
Hypnotheraphy: The Last Cigarette Before the End of the World
Hypnotherapy for Amnesia
Werk
Teary VI
It's Only the End of the World (no.46)
Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Eimi Fukada
Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Erena HoiLam So
Bio
Born in a former colony (Hong Kong) of the British Empire, grew up witnessing the paradigm shift (from neoliberalism to totalitarianism to ecological crisis) and lives as a diaspora in western Europe (the Netherlands), “The End of the World” for Mel Chan is much more than a metaphor -- it is a painful fact that we need to embrace, a “trouble” that we need to stay with (as Donna Haraway advocates).
Based in the Netherlands, she has exhibited/performed in various art spaces and festivals in the Netherlands (1646, Platform_POST, Quartair, The Grey Space in the Middle, Pictura, Page Not Found, Kunstinstituut Melly, Brutus, Roodkaapje, Museum of Young Art (MOYA), De Balie, Vrij Paleis, Rademakers Gallery, Willem Twee Kunstruimte, ACPA Conference, Kaapstad Art In Public Space Festival, among others).
She graduated from Master Artistic Research in The Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK) in 2019, and has a double major degree in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong.
Based in the Netherlands, she has exhibited/performed in various art spaces and festivals in the Netherlands (1646, Platform_POST, Quartair, The Grey Space in the Middle, Pictura, Page Not Found, Kunstinstituut Melly, Brutus, Roodkaapje, Museum of Young Art (MOYA), De Balie, Vrij Paleis, Rademakers Gallery, Willem Twee Kunstruimte, ACPA Conference, Kaapstad Art In Public Space Festival, among others).
She graduated from Master Artistic Research in The Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK) in 2019, and has a double major degree in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong.