⏰ 3:00-4:30 pm, Sat 18 May 2024

🏠 Residents Space, Goldsmiths CCA, St James’s, London SE14 6AD

We are excited to welcome artist Yeu-Lai Mo as the guest speaker for our May event. Mo will talk about her artistic practice since the late 1990s and introduce a new archival research project which maps the activities of The British Chinese Artists’ Association and its links with the British Black Arts Movement in the 1990s and the 2000s. Following the talk, Mo will be joined by Gourd Canteen member Weitian Liu for a discussion on the shifting vocabulary around Chineseness—as a racial, cultural, political identity—in the context of British art.

Yeu-Lai Mo is a re-emerging artist, identifying as British East and Southeast Asian (BESEA). Mo graduated from the RCA in 1997 and exhibited widely in the UK and China.

Mo’s work explores ideas of critical alternatives for the perception of the British Chinese. In her practice she has touched on issues of racism, prejudice, patriarchal stereotypes of East Asian women and made art using the language and paraphernalia of the fast food industry. An element of performance prevails through her work, she uses photography, video, sound, and mixed media installation to create an immersive environment.

In her most recent work, Mo draws on personal memory and in particular a space from her childhood, which she often returns to as a starting point and a place of inspiration and reconciliation.

In 2021 she was successfully awarded an ACE DYCP grant to develop a new body of work called ‘upstairs’ shown in Deptford X 2022.

Free, limited capacity; booking is required.

This event is part of Gourd Canteen's ongoing programme of talks, screenings, reading groups, and workshops, conceived as a space for self-organised learning and community support.