VIRAL RESISTANCE
LINE UP:
Hamza Beg
Hui Magai 慧芝
Christa Joo Hyun D’Angelo
Mizu Mugi
Popo Fan
If you didn't get a chance to see us last time... we are incredibly excited to invite you to the 6TH EDITION of „MSG & Friends" which is a monthly event series dedicated to carving out a safer, vibrant space for all performers and artists of Asian heritage. This month's theme is VIRAL RESISTANCE.
VIRAL RESISTANCE: Will be on the theme of pockets of resistance showing up across the globe. This is also to show support for those directly and indirectly affected by the corona virus. **Most of our line up will be of SHORT FILMS, with some performances! **
This space seeks to provide opportunity for representation where there has not been opportunity before to folks of Asian-descent.
We passionately believe in supplying an interdisciplinary space where our voices can be heard in order to contribute to the further deconstruction of harmful racist narratives that still surround the Other, that is the Asian body.
Christa Joo Hyn D'Angelo is an American artist based in Berlin. She was born in 1983 in Busan South Korea and raised in NYC. D'Angelo attended the Maryland Institute College of Art and studied under TJ Demos and later The Academy of Fine Arts in Cracow Poland.
The core of her artistic work and research confronts fear, vulnerability, and what is thus, invisible. By challenging ideas about what is normal, new imaginations are forged in order to understand the delicate complexities of race, relationships, labor, isolation and class through intimate narratives and absurd juxtapositions that seek to uncover the unseen ways in which marginalization and fear effect our desire to belong. Through video, neon, sculpture, installation and collage she seeks to redefine what is normal while embracing difference as a source of inspiration and empowerment in order to discover new means of acceptance and ultimately, healing.
D'Angelo has exhibited at The Screen City Biennial, Halle 14, VOLTA NY, NYU's Global Asia Pacific Institute, PS120, Kunstraum Bethanien, Galerie Studio Warsaw and Galerie im Turm. In addition her work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art in America, Elephant Magazine, The University of Rochester's Academic Journal and The Guardian. In 2019 she was Artist in Residence at Mentoring Artists for Women’s Art in Winnipeg, Canada and a 2019 Project Grant Holder from The District of Cultural Fund of Kreuzberg -Friedrichshain. She has designed sets for Fever Ray and King Kong Magazine and has worked with Charlie Le Mindu on costumes for Peaches.
Popo Fan is a queer filmmaker, writer and activist. His films featured topics such as same sex marriage (New Beijing, New Marriage), transgender (Be A Woman), feminism (The VaChina Monologues). His trilogy Chinese Closet, Mama Rainbow, Papa Rainbow, focusing on LGBT families in China, had made strong impact on the Chinese society. His tireless working on LGBT visibility also includes serving as organizer for the Beijing Queer Film Festival for more than a decade, as well as founder of Queer University Video Training Camp. In 2011, he received Prism Award from Hong Kong Lesbian and Gay Film Festival. And in 2016 he won the best short film at CHOUFTOUHONNA, Tunis International Feminist Art Film Festival (The VaChina Monologues). He participated in Berlinale Talents 2017. He is also the jury of Teddy Award in 2019.
Hamza Beg hates writing in the 3rd person but is always willing to compromise. A sometimes writer, sometimes performer and sometimes musician - this person is obsessed with finding the nuance between the categories of exile and home. You can find him if you look in the interstices of life - comma - trying to use smaller words. Bring him biscuits to make him happy.
Hui Magai 慧芝 is a south German artist based out of Berlin with origins from China. Hui specializes in creating poetry and performance art, and incorporates English, German and Spanish in her work.
In 2014, Hui relocated to Hong Kong, to conduct ancestry research. This is where she made her first performance in public. In the name of solidarity and intimacy she painted her face into a rooted leafless tree, went with her friend to the backside of the metro station "Yau Ma Tei" and shaved her head in an effort to question femininity, comfort and freedom.
Hui explores healing and education through her poetry and seeks to question the intricacies of life through her art, to express the essence of emotions not only with words, and to create a space where people may explore the importance of the mental and physical. Hui’s poetry is strongly influenced by her experiences in the Hip Hop, R’n’B and Techno scene.
Currently she is planning to showcase previously undisclosed material from Hong Kong, Frankfurt am Main, and Berlin, and merge the past to present into one performance.
@hui.magai
Born in Tokyo and raised in Malawi and Trinidad and Tobago, Mizu has been predominantly living
outside of her passport country since the age of 6. Recently received her freelance artist visa and now she's in the process of surviving and resisting without getting kicked out of the country.
