Residency: Angela YT Chan
As part of Nourishment: A Cyclical Programme, Angela YT Chan will undertake a week long residency with Primary from 25–31 October 2021.
Angela will spend the residency continuing her work on water, people and power in relation to climate change. She will consider how water shapes the city, from its natural landscape, the waterways industrial history, and everyday community resilience to the social and ecological impacts today. Thinking about the processes that enable the water cycle to renew and repeat, she’ll ask how this model of adaptation can inform our own human processes with the environment. What happens when cycles are disrupted, and how they can be strengthened?
Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher, curator and artist. Her work reconfigures power in relation to the inequity of climate change, through self-archiving, rethinking geographies and speculative fiction. Her current research-art commissions span climate framings, water scarcity and conflict, and she has held residencies with Arts Catalyst, FACT/Jerwood Arts’ Digital Fellowship and Sonic Acts’ environmental research residency. Angela produces curatorial projects and workshops as Worm: art + ecology, collaborating with artists, activists and youth groups. She holds a postgraduate in Climate Change (KCL) and is also a researcher in international climate and cultural policy. Angela co-founded the London Chinese Science Fiction Group and co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community.