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Angela YT Chan

Resident artist

Country: UK

Website:  https://angelaytchan.net

Angela YT Chan is an independent researcher and artist investigating climate change narratives with colonial history, data, technology, and justice. Her projects often include interdisciplinary collaborations in policy, academia and activism. She is a current resident with the Heritage for Global Challenges Research Centre (Archaeology, University of York) and AA2A, continuing her investigation “Critiquing a “Sustainable Military” and Climate Tech". Previous highlight residencies include Arts Catalyst, FACT/Jerwood, Sonic Acts, Primary, Abandon Normal Devices, and Tactical Tech. Angela has produced curatorial projects and workshops, collaborating with artists, activists and youth groups (formerly under the name Worm: art + ecology, 2014-2020). She co-directs the London Science Fiction Research Community. As an educator she has taught climate colonialism, environmental and social art, games and speculative fiction (Goldsmiths, KCL, RCA, WSA), and mentors artists working on digital media technologies. Angela is also a research consultant, having worked on climate projects for major cultural institutions and in international climate and cultural policy at Julie's Bicycle (UNCOP26). She has recently worked with INTERPRT, a research agency that pursues environmental justice through spatial and visual investigations.

Events

Artworks

Rain Paradox (2021)

Part of residency showcase, Uncertain Data, Rain Paradox (2021) explores Rain Paradox presents counter-narratives to official framings of water scarcity, offering different perspectives from community-minded citizens across the UK.

Latest articles

Listen: In both trickles and floods

Reaching across time zones and geographical regions, artist in residence Angela YT Chan and curator Annie Jael Kwan, have co-created an experimental audio work that explores their shared fascination with liquidity.

by FACT

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