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YEE CLUN LOST STORY
Xiao Han
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Xiao Han is a Saskatoon-based artist and curator originally from Wuhan, China. Han's creative practice focuses on narrative photography, visualizing emotion, affect sense and community engagement. Han's research explores diaspora identity, contemporary gender issues, and decolonial practice. Han produced numerous projects investigating the Chinese one-child policy, Chinese Canadian immigrants' identity, and the aesthetic of community relationships through visual art and curatorial practice.
Yee Clun Lost Story speaks of the racial discrimination suffered by Chinese restaurant owners under Saskatchewan's "White Woman Labour Law" passed in 1912. It is a photo narrative of Yee Clun’s story through stage design, self-performance, and prop making. The newspaper that the actor is holding is a real reprinted newspaper from 1924 which reports about Yee Clun's story.
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Xiao Han, originaire de Wuhan en Chine, est une artiste et conservatrice installée à Saskatoon. Sa pratique artistique se concentre principalement sur la narration photographique, la visualisation des émotions, le sens de l’affect et l’engagement communautaire. Han explore dans ses travaux de recherches l’identité diasporique, les questions de genre contemporaines et la pratique décoloniale. Dans la plupart de ses projets, à travers son art visuel et sa pratique muséale, Han explore la politique chinoise de l’enfant unique, l’identité des immigrants canadiens d’origine chinoise, ainsi que l’esthétique des relations communautaires.
Yee Clun Lost Story fait référence à la discrimination raciale subie par les restaurateurs chinois aux termes de la Législation du travail des femmes blanches adoptée par la Saskatchewan en 1912. La photographie narrative présente l’histoire de Yee Clun à travers la mise en scène, la performance et la conception des accessoires. Le journal imprimé, tenu par l’acteur, est un journal authentique datant de 1924, qui relate l’histoire de Yee Clun.
This artwork location has been generously provided by The Gladstone Theatre.
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