Mel Chan

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Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.1, 2024
Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.2, 2024
Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.3, 2024
Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.4, 2024
Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.5, 2024
Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.6, 2024
Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.7, 2024
Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.10, 2023
Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.8, 2023
Mel Chan, Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.9, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Eimi Fukada, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Sola Aoi, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Yui Hatano, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello To Gerhard Richter - Anzai Rara, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Erena HoiLam So, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Ichika Matsumoto, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Madoka Ozawa, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Mao Hamasaki, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Maria Ozawa, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Nozomi Ishihara, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Satsuki Mei, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Shion Utsunomiya, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Tsuzuki Ami, 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter - Yua Mikimi, 2023
Mel Chan, Teary I
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.15)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.30)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.37)
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.1), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.10), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.13), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.14), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.17), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.18), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.19), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.2), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.20), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.3) , 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.5), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.6), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.7), 2023
Mel Chan, Days and Nights of Love and War (no.8), 2023
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter (no.1), 2015
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter (no.2), 2015
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter (no.3), 2015
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter (no.4), 2015
Mel Chan, Girls Say Hello to Gerhard Richter (no.5), 2015
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.32)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.33)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.34)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.35)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.29), 2023
Mel Chan, Mystical Utterance (no.1)
Mel Chan, Mystical Utterance (no.2)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.40)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.41)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.42)
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.43), 2023
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.44), 2023
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.45), 2023
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.46), 2023
Mel Chan, It's Only the End of the World (no.47), 2023
Studies of Volcanic Eruption no.1, 2024

 

Mel Chan

PHILOSPHY, LITERATURE and ARTISTIC RESEARCH

Mel Chan (1980) was born in Hong Kong and currently lives and works in the Netherlands. She graduated with a master's degree in Artistic Research from The Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK) in 2019 and has a double major degree in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong.

 

THE END OF THE WORLD

Because Chan was born in a former colony (Hong Kong) of the British Empire, she grew up witnessing the paradigm shift (from neoliberalism to totalitarianism to ecological crisis) and lives as a diaspora in western Europe (the Netherlands), “The End of the World” for Mel Chan is much more than a metaphor -- it is a painful fact that we need to embrace, a “trouble” that we need to stay with (as Donna Haraway advocates).

 

(NEO)COLONIALISM

Her artistic research traces the intricate relations between our dystopian situation and the legacies of Colonialism and (Neo)Colonialism. Encompassing participatory performances, hypnotherapy, storytelling, painting and video, her practices not only guide people to live with the crisis, they are also acknowledgement of historical causation, as well as investigation of remedies and hopes in time of precarity.

 

EXHIBITIONS and PERFORMANCES

Based in the Netherlands, she has exhibited/performed in various art spaces in Den Haag (1646, Quartair, The Grey Space in the Middle, Page Not Found), Rotterdam (Kunstinstituut Melly, V2_, Roodkaapje), Den Bosch (Willem Twee Kunstruimte), Amsterdam (De Balie, Vrij Paleis, Galerie Franzis Engels), Leiden (ACPA Conference), Tilburg (Kaapstad Art In Public Space Festival), and Scotland (Hospitalfield), among others. She graduated from Master Artistic Research in The Royal Academy of Art The Hague (KABK) in 2019, and has a double major degree in Philosophy and Comparative Literature from the University of Hong Kong.

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