
Bandung Community Conversation: Coalition Building
6:30 – 7:30PM
A4 and MoCADA present Bandung Community Conversation: Coalition Building with Betty Yu, an award-winning filmmaker, socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer and activist born and raised in NYC. Yu is also a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-displacement fights.
As an artist, Yu integrates documentary film, installation, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice, with her films and multimedia work focusing on labor, immigration, gentrification, abolition, racism, militarism, transgender equality, among other issues.
Join us for an informative and powerful conversation with Yu as we tap into the necessity of building bridges in order to strengthen communities.
The talk will also be livestreamed on the MoCADA website.
This event is free and open to the public, but RSVP is required.
Accessibility:
If you have any questions or accessibility needs, please email zola-jourdan@mocada.org.
Recordings:
This event will be recorded and uploaded to A4/MoCADA YouTube after it concludes.
About the Bandung Residency
The residency is named for the groundbreaking 1955 summit held in Bandung, Indonesia, bringing together leaders from 29 newly independent Asian and African states emerging from colonial rule, with the aim of ending racial discrimination and ensuring collaboration and a peaceful coexistence. This Residency is made possible through the NYS AAPI Community Fund, Ford Foundation, the NYC Department of Cultural Affairs, the NYC Department of Youth and Community Development, and Apicha Community Health Center.
About Betty Yu
Betty Yu is an award-winning filmmaker, socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer and activist born and raised in New York City. Yu integrates documentary film, installation, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her practice. Yu’s films and multimedia work has focused on labor, immigration, gentrification, abolition, racism, militarism, transgender equality among other issues. She is a co-founder of Chinatown Art Brigade, a cultural collective using art to advance anti-displacement fights. Yu’s documentary “Resilience” about her garment worker mother fighting sweatshop conditions screened at film festivals including the Margaret Mead Film Festival. Her work has been exhibited and screened at the Brooklyn Museum, Queens Museum, New-York Historical Society, Museum of the City of New York, Tenement Museum, Artists Space/ISP Whitney Museum, 2019 BRIC Biennial, apexart, Pace University Art Gallery, Transmitter Gallery, 601 Artspace, Five Myles, Squeaky Wheel Film and Media Art Center, Old Stone House, and MAXXI in Rome. She holds a BFA from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts, an MFA in Integrated Media Arts from Hunter College/CUNY, and a New Media Narratives certificate from the International Center of Photography. Her forthcoming photography and art collage book, Family Amnesia, will be released Spring 2025.
Location
Virtual, Zoom