South London Gallery: British Art Network Chai Shai Reading Group, Asian British Art with Michelle Williams Gamaker

The Chai Shai: Asian British Art research group aims to address the underrepresentation of Asian British women artists in exhibitions and challenge their under-representation and invisibility in the British Art world.

Join the group for a reading event with artist Michelle Williams Gamaker. Williams Gamaker will read two poems by Sally Wen Mao and a chapter from The China Mystique by Karen J. Leong. She will discuss the texts and her wider interests in the politics of race and representation in conversation with artists and researchers Bindu Mehra, Jasmir Creed and Professor Kristen Kreider.

The Chai Shai: Asian British Art (with a focus on South Asian British and East Asian Contemporary Women Artists Practice) attempts to shed light on the systematic barriers, including racism and misogyny, that prevent these artists from gaining equal exposure and recognition within visual arts. By bringing together artists, writers, curators, academics, and researchers, they aim to generate new channels of thinking and networking that will contribute towards the development of British Art curating.

Through reading groups, film screenings, performance, workshops and symposia, they aim to create thinking spaces that will unpack notions of invisibility and disenchantment, and identity strategies for redressing this imbalance. The Chai Shai: Asian British Art  project will be archived within the Slade School of Fine Art and UCL Art Museum.

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