{"id":6317,"date":"2017-06-16T12:20:25","date_gmt":"2017-06-16T16:20:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/?p=6317"},"modified":"2018-05-06T17:40:18","modified_gmt":"2018-05-06T21:40:18","slug":"audrey-chan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/audrey-chan\/","title":{"rendered":"Audrey Chan"},"content":{"rendered":"<!--powerpress_player--><div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_1379\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-6317-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/AudreyChan.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/AudreyChan.mp3\">http:\/\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interview\/AudreyChan.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_subscribe_links\">Subscribe: <a href=\"https:\/\/podcasts.apple.com\/us\/podcast\/interviews-by-brainard-carey\/id1468502583?mt=2&amp;ls=1\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_itunes\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Apple Podcasts\" rel=\"nofollow\">Apple Podcasts<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/open.spotify.com\/show\/5ZxsN79E1W6VJOjQF9GNuZ\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_spotify\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on Spotify\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spotify<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/tunein.com\/radio\/Interviews-by-Brainard-Carey-p1236598\/\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_tunein\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe on TuneIn\" rel=\"nofollow\">TuneIn<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/feeds.podcastmirror.com\/interviews-by-brainard\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_rss\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Subscribe via RSS\" rel=\"nofollow\">RSS<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/goo.gl\/xSQrKY\" class=\"powerpress_link_subscribe powerpress_link_subscribe_more\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Click here to  join mailing list\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to  join mailing list<\/a><\/p><p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.audreychan.net\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" wp-image-6326 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chan-headshot-full.jpg?resize=218%2C171&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"218\" height=\"171\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chan-headshot-full.jpg?resize=300%2C235&amp;ssl=1 300w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chan-headshot-full.jpg?resize=768%2C601&amp;ssl=1 768w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chan-headshot-full.jpg?resize=1024%2C801&amp;ssl=1 1024w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chan-headshot-full.jpg?resize=696%2C545&amp;ssl=1 696w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chan-headshot-full.jpg?resize=1068%2C836&amp;ssl=1 1068w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chan-headshot-full.jpg?resize=537%2C420&amp;ssl=1 537w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chan-headshot-full.jpg?w=1392&amp;ssl=1 1392w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Chan-headshot-full.jpg?w=2088&amp;ssl=1 2088w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 218px) 100vw, 218px\" \/>Audrey Chan<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (b. 1982, Chicago, Illinois) is a Los Angeles-based artist, writer, and educator whose research-based projects articulate political and cultural identities through allegorical narrative and the feminist construct of \u201cthe personal is political.\u201d Chan\u2019s projects include paintings, digital compositions, videos, and performances. She received a BA from Swarthmore College and an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. She has been a visiting faculty at California Institute of the Arts and worked in the education departments of the New Museum, Museum of Modern Art, and the J. Paul Getty Museum. Chan has been commissioned by Metro Art to create a public artwork for the new Regional Connector subway station in the historic Little Tokyo neighborhood of Downtown Los Angeles, scheduled to open in 2021. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">She received a CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists and an ARC grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation. Recent exhibitions include: <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Biomythography: Currency Exchange <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Claremont Graduate University), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">L.A. Heat <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(de)Constructing Chinatown<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Chinese American Museum), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">SKIN <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">3 Solo Projects: Audrey Chan, Elana Mann, Chan &amp; Mann <\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">(Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">XX Redux<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University), <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Notes Toward an Exhibition<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Galerie de l\u2019\u00c9cole R\u00e9gionale des Beaux-Arts de Nantes, France),<\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> femmeusesaction #15<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Parc Saint-L\u00e9ger, France), and <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">CRW \u2013 Contemporary Reflections on War<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (BKS Garage at the Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts, Denmark).<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Since 2005, Chan has collaborated with Elana Mann as the feminist duo Chan &amp; Mann. Their performances and projects have been presented at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Luxun Academy of Art, Pacific Standard Time Performance Festival, Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, and Elephant Art Space. Chan &amp; Mann were part of the team organizing <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Exquisite Acts &amp; Everyday Rebellions: 2007 CalArts Feminist Art Project<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and they co-organized <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Shares &amp; Stakeholders: The Feminist Art Project Day of Panels<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> at the 100th Annual College Art Association Conference in Los Angeles in 2012.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Chan\u2019s essays and artist interviews have appeared in Afterall Journal, Afterall Online, East of Borneo, \u2026might be good, Art21 Blog, and the Getty Iris blog. In 2009, she was an artist-in-residence at the \u00c9cole R\u00e9gionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes in France. Her first book, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Conseil juridique et artistique \/ Legal and Artistic Counsel<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (2011) explored the promiscuous relationship between contemporary art and politics in French law. Chan is currently co-editor of the zine, <\/span><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Would Be Saboteurs Take<\/span><\/i> <i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Heed<\/span><\/i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which centers the voices of AAPI (Asian American and Pacific Islander) artists and writers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The books mentioned in this interview are Jeff Chang\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/whowebe.net\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Who We Be: The Colorization of America<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">and <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/bealright.net\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We Gon\u2019 Be Alright: Notes on Race and Resegregation<\/span><\/i><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, as well as the online archive of <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/ddr.densho.org\/ddr-densho-297\/\"><i><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gidra<\/span><\/i><\/a> <span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">newspaper.<\/span><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/55502790\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/55502790\">Chinatown Abecedario: A Folk Taxonomy of L.A.&#8217;s Chinatown<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/audreychan\">Audrey Chan<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_6321\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6321\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6321 size-large\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mural-David-Tran.jpg?resize=640%2C479&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/museumofnonvisibleart.com\/interviews\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Mural-David-Tran.jpg?resize=1024%2C766&amp;ssl=1 1024w, 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