爻 yáo collaborative Dumpling Party

Yao Collaborative’s Dumpling Party is back! They can’t wait to celebrate 10 years of China Residencies – now 爻 yáo collaborative – with you ❤

🥟 Come eat dumplings 🥟 and celebrate our 10th year of existence as a multifaceted arts nonprofit helping artists, musicians, filmmakers, and organizers and mentoring collectives so that all kinds of creative people can create great things in and about China, Hong Kong, and its diasporas in the greater Sinophere beyond.

There will be dumpling snacks and music from 百会 Baihui, and the first 250 people to show up get a free drink!

We will be showing short films by:
🌱 Jiayu Yang
🌱 Nomadic Department of the Interior
🌱 Betty Yu
🌱 Viola He

Serving a special custom mulberry drink by:
🍹 Candace Thompson

And showcasing our community library of books, zines, and ephemera from over the years!

The venue is indoor & outdoor, wheelchair accessible inside, and family friendly.

🎟️ Pre-sale tickets are based on a sliding-scale suggested donation 🎟️
~ $15 ~ sprout ~ $15 ~
~ $30 ~ plant ~ $30~
~ $90 ~ flower ~ $90 ~
~ $$$ ~ field ~ $$$ ~

This is our annual fundraiser so feel free to give any additional donations to help us keep going ~~~

Tickets bought at the door will start at $30. All funds raised will go towards sustaining new artists and alumni with the necessary funds to continue creating work and hosting empathetic, critical conversations about our communities, land, and global connections. As a W.A.G.E.-certified organization, we strive to provide all people in the arts with fair pay and labor standards. Our work is possible because of your support! 🎟️

If ticket prices are out of your budget right now, we’d still love to have you. No one will be turned away for lack of funds. Email us at events@yaocollaborative.org :)

:: ABOUT THE ARTISTS ::

🌱 JIAYU YANG is a practicing documentary filmmaker and emerging video installation artist based in Chicago. She was born and raised in Guilin, China. As a member of one of China’s ethnic minority groups, she ponders experimental and subjective methods of cultural representation that act to bridge the gaps between East and West. In her work, she celebrates both randomness and universal sensitivities in present the “spectacle” in the ordinary, daily, and the mundane while challenging romanticized notions of culture, landscape, and peoples.

🌱 NOMADIC DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR is a research art collective that seeks to address, in films, websites, and publications, the conflicting interests between stewardship of lands & extraction of material and cultural resources. Our research investigates technological systems against the backdrop of geological, ecological and human history. You can learn more at https://ndoi.land.

🌱 BETTY YU is a socially engaged multimedia artist, photographer, filmmaker, educator, and activist born and raised in NYC to Chinese immigrant parents. Betty integrates documentary film, new media platforms, and community-infused approaches into her artistic practice. In 2020, she worked with housing activists create “Resistance in Progress” a multi-media installation featured at Queens Museum. She has exhibited at Brooklyn Museum, Apex Art Gallery, Squeaky Wheel, No Longer Empty, and SPACE Gallery and been awarded artist residencies at the Laundromat Project, ISCP, Asian American Arts Alliance, En Foco, Skidmore College’s Documentary Storytellers’ Institute, KODA Lab, and Santa Fe Art Institute, Stone Leaf, Pratt Institute, China Residencies, Flux Factory and the Intercultural Leadership Institute, and SPACE at Ryder Farm. You can learn more at http://www.bettyyu.net.

🌱 VIOLA HE is a Shanghai-born, Brooklyn-based interdisciplinary artist, educator, and cultural organizer. Their creative practices engage with DIY electronics, programming, dance/movements, and various time-based media, exploring pathways towards alternative structures, systems and interfaces for humans and machines in a time of crisis.

They create immersive experiences, installations, and improvisational performances using algorithmic approaches to enhance, alternate, and obfuscate audio-visual assets, investigating the contradictions of analog aesthetics and digital tools. Viola often dreams about infiltrating digital spaces with physical bodies as tools for intervention, wielding their love/hate relationship with technology to challenge the rigid infrastructures around them. You can learn more at https://violand.xyz.

🌱 CANDACE THOMPSON is a media maker and land steward fascinated by the feedback loops of ecology, economics, culture, history, media, and daily human interaction. They make video, audio, web, and social practice projects that examine and challenge the truths we purportedly hold to be self-evident. Perhaps they aren’t so self-evident after all.

Thompson’s current projects search for healing and agency in the face of opaque profit systems. This includes human relationship(s) with the (un)natural world vis a vis local food webs, phone addiction and the corporate surveillance state, and rituals of healing that locate personal and intergenerational trauma as somatic heirlooms. Recent institutional relationships include More Art, Residency Unlimited, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Brooklyn Arts Council, NYFA, the Urban Soil Institute, Cycle X, Burlington City Arts, Wave Hill, and Swale House. You can learn more at: https://kandeetee.net.

🌱 BAIHUI is an independent radio station gathering rich and diverse voices and connecting music communities throughout China and across the world. https://baihui.live/information/en