TNG presents Reflective Urbanisms: Mapping Calgary Chinatown
The New Gallery (TNG) presents REFLECTIVE URBANISMS: MAPPING CALGARY CHINATOWN, an interactive, web-based project that maps Calgary Chinatown?s architectural changes, by Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong.
The map visualizes the changes that the buildings in Chinatown have experienced, alongside community stories and oral histories that have occurred around them. The project was created as part of the Calgary Chinatown Artist Residency with The City of Calgary and The New Gallery.
Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong is a New York-based artist and trained architect working at the boundary of art, architecture and social practice. Her work investigates the transformation of shared space over time, and seeks to challenge social and political boundaries through sculpture, installation, performance and site-specific architectural interventions.
?As an artist and a trained architect, my creative practice explores how we share space together and how spaces can change over time. I?ve had a longstanding connection to Chinatowns in the U.S. and have seen each one transform over the decades. In New York City, I live in Manhattan?s Chinatown. Growing up in Los Angeles, my parents brought my sister and I on monthly pilgrimages to LA?s Chinatown,? says the artist.
Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong says that the first part of her research was just to observe the buildings of the neighborhood by walking and moving around each structure, studying its details, and photographing it from different perspectives: ?I was often i...
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