Sophia Yadong Hao
Artist's Statement
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I define myself as an installation artist. Based on audience participation, my work involves the process and experience of recording memories, their transformation into archives and reclaiming of personal and ethnic identities. The intentions of my works are collecting memory and exploring identity to highlight the experiences, issues and achievements both past and present of minority groups in Britain and their effect on the cultural diversity of the country. In the future I will still focus on the main concerns of my previous work and try to explore more effective methods to build up a network between the exhibition/artist and Chinese community groups (both established immigrant groups and the student groups coming to the west for educational or cultural purpose), businesses and individuals; between exhibition/artist and other community groups and individuals in order to deepen my explorations on ñart of memories/small stories î and how art works as an interactive experience from various angles and to establish and expand my career as a professional artist. Also, with my previous experiences of working with cultural exchange projects I want to further exploit my contacts with contemporary artists and curators in China to develop exciting new cultural projects between these two countries as China grows in cultural significance.
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Images of work
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Brief CV
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EDUCATION
2005
MA in Visual Culture (with distinction) at Manchester Metropolitan University
2003
Diploma in Teacher Training at Wigan &Leigh College
2000
BA in Chinese Language and Literature at Lanzhou University in China
1994
BA in History at Northwest Minorities University in China
EXHIBITIONS & RESIDENCIES
2006
Lie with You (Happening/Performance), The 3rd 798 International Art Festival, Beijing, China
The Unbearable Lightness of Text Messages (Interactive installation),Artist in Residence, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
Memory Collector (Installation), BBC Bus Art Activity, Blackburn
2005
Lie With Me (Installation/Performance), The Region Show, Manchester.(collaborated with Amy Cham and performed during the show)
Archive Monument (Installation), Holden Gallery, Manchester
2004
The Archive Project(Interactive installation) , Lanzhou, China
This Is My Voice, This Is My Being (Sound-installation), Holden Gallery , Manchester, 2004
PUBLICATIONS
2003
Novel ñA Dying Black Fishî and poems ñThe Twelfth Nightî, Banyan Bottom Original Work (www.rongshu.com), china.
Poems ñForcelessî in Journal of GanSu Literature, China
2002
Poems ñSelected work î in Journal of GanSu Literature. China
1998
The General Scheme of the Outdoor Scene Project of Ba-Mian-Shan Showbiz City in Hangzhou , China
1998
Essay ñThe Call from the Calendar Stone----on the Representations of Mythical Characteristics and Humanity in the Poems of Octavio Pazî in the Selected Essays of the 4th Foreign Literature Research Conference,1998, China
MEMBER OF ASSOCIATIONS
Chinese Minorities WritersÍ Association
Chinese Folklore Research Association
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Contact
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E-mail: yadong_hao@hotmail.com
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