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Bettina Fung | 馮允珊 is a British-Chinese artist based in London. Her practice encompasses 2-D, site-specific and performative works. She often incorporates the act of drawing into live art, sharing her process of creating, where the work unfolds over time. Since the pandemic, her practice has expanded to evoke the sense of presence over the internet, devising live real time online interactions and gatherings, which resulted in a text-based browser game and using Google Docs as a site for performance and live happenings. Subjects explored and questioned within Bettina’s work include legacy, belonging, productivity, the practice of ‘commoning’ and care, self-organising and learning. She is curious about how an artwork can hold space for people to share, learn and collaborate, where it could set up and maintain the conditions for what is needed to emerge. Currently Bettina is developing new work around the subjects of loss, collective mourning and commemoration and has also expanded her practice into tattooing. Read more...
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SELECTED EXHIBITIONS & PERFORMANCES
2023
Making New Worlds: Li Yuan-chia & Friends, Kettle's Yard, Cambridge, UK (also part of the satellite display at West Court Gallery at Jesus College, Cambridge, UK)
ALTAR-NATIVE, Ugly Duck, London, UK
2022
Stateless Mind: Bodies of Knowledge, Pera+Flora+Fauna exhibition - a collateral event at the Venice Biennale, Italy
Nocturnal Creatures, Whitechapel Gallery, London, UK
Sābrs Zine and Small Press Festival, Riga, Latvia
Flanders 2022 as part of the European Poetry Festival, National Poetry Library, London, UK
2021
The Sea Changes Into Words, part of Aspex (life begins) at 40 programme, a digital artwork/live art piece commissioned by Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth, UK, supported using public funding by the National Lottery through Arts Council England
Trees Talk, outdoor performance with Catherine Harrington, part of London Festival of Architecture 2021, UK
2020
Till We Meet Again IRL, Best Wishes, Asia-Art-Activism, online programme by Asia-Art-Activism, supported by Bagri Foundation and Arts Council England
Wake up & Smell the Tear Gas, online programme organised by Young Blood Initiative
Digital Dada Salon, organised by Decorating Dissidence (as part of Guest Projects Digital Residency)
2019
換屋計畫:高雄系列活動, The Pier-2 Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
Syllabus Presents..., Eastside Projects, Birmingham, UK
until you became me performance evening, The House Mill, London, UK
Hungarian Lit Night: Tributes to Attila József, Hunagrian Cultural Centre, London, UK
Illuminations VI, Austrian Cultural Forum, London, UK
OUTWITH, a Syllabus IV exhibition, Guest Projects, London, UK
Performance x 4A, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art, Sydney, Australia at Art Central Hong Kong
Performance: what gets stuck in the eddy goes around and around, SEA Currents Festival; Raven Row, London, UK
Being Present: Performative reponses to Speech Acts; Manchester Art Gallery, UK
2018
FLOW Day3: Contract with the Skin, Asia-Art-Activism Research Network, Raven Row, London, UK
Imprints of Passing Time, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK (SOLO EXHIBITION)
Liminal Mass - Performance evening as part of First Thursdays late opening of Art for the Environment exhibition at Bow Arts, London UK
2017
Makers of the Multiverse by Juneau Projects, Spacex, Exeter, UK
Draw the Line, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Radical Love: Female Lust, Crypt Gallery, London, UK; On tour: Storyhouse, Chester, UK (as part of Women of the World Festival); Gallery X, Dublin, Ireland
‘La Collection Secrète #2’ performance art event, organised by Kubilai Khan Investigations in partnership with Théâtre des Salins in Martigues, France
2016
Un Festival Vrrr, Musée d'Art, Toulon, France
The Space between the Lines, 139 Artspace, London, UK (SOLO EXHIBITION)
COLOUR (part of Plymouth Art Weekender), Studio 102, Plymouth, UK
Draw to Perform3: International Symposium of Drawing Performance, Curated by Ram Samocha; Crows Nest Gallery, London, UK
Duration & Dialogue Performance Arts Festival, Curated by Natasha Bailey, Dario Del Daga and Johannes Zits; Katzman Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
2015
Toys (Are Us), Curated by Kosha Hussain, Crypt Gallery, London, UK
Draw to Perform 2: International Symposium for Drawing Performance, Curated by Ram Samocha, NUMBER3, London, UK
2014
Guerrilla Zoo's Modern Panic V, Curated by James Elphick, Apiary Studios, London, UK
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RESIDENCIES
2023 Charlotte Sharman Primary School (organised by Drawing Room), London, UK
2020 Grrrl Zine Fair Mini-Residency, The Old Waterworks
Virtual Retreat, Arthouse Jersey (online)
2019 Artists Home Swap, 酸屋 Acid House, Taipei, Taiwan
2018 Asia-Art-Activism Research Network, Raven Row, London, UK
2017 Summer Lodge; Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, UK
2016 Play Ground; John Hansard Gallery, Southampton, UK
Study Week devised by Jesse Darling; Wysing Arts Centre, UK
2012 ALAS Autumn Residency; Matt Roberts Arts, London, UK
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BURSARY & AWARDS
2020 Artists Make Change Peer-Learning Bursary
2018 Arts Council England's Grants for the Arts award
2017 Winner of Draw the Line Open Exhibition at Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK; Awarded solo show
2014 A-N Artist Company New Collaborations Bursary
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PUBLICATIONS
2023
Teachers’ Assembly: Drawing As Play, published by Drawing Room as part of their teachers resource series, supported by Freelands Foundation
2022
ASIA-ART-ACTIVISM: Experiments in Care and Collective Disobedience, edited by Annie Jael Kwan and Joanna Wolfarth; contributed “Citing Sites - A walk through memories”; published by Asia Art Acivism with the support from the kickstarter campaign, Arts Council England and the Bagri Foundation
2020
WORKBOOK; digital zine that explores the relationship between art and activism, also in the collection of Asia Art Archive
2019
26 x 2=0; cover collaboration in the British Art Studies Journal Issue 13: London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories, edited by Hammad Nasar and Sarah Victoria Turner, published by the Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art, London, and the Yale Center for British Art, New Haven, September 2019, UK
2018
A Dialogue Still In The Making 2002/2018; a collaboration with Erika Tan; published by Erika Tan, in the occasion of the book launch of ‘Contesting British Chinese Culture’ (2018) edited by Ashley Thorpe and Diana Yeh on 30 November 2018, UK
Footnotes; contributed “If you want to perfect dragon step, do it ten thousand times.”; published by Tate n Lyle, UK
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PRESS
National Sun Yat Sen University Press, 臺英交流Eye-opening 劇藝聯手換屋計畫探索新興藝術形式, November 2019 (on the Artist Home Swap Residency programme and performance “Wanderings”)
Young Artists in Conversation, Interview by Paul Harrison, May 2019
The Art Newspaper, “Brisk sales lift the mood at satellite fair Art Central Hong Kong” by Lisa Movius, 29 March 2019
Standnews, “【今年Art Central有乜睇】本土藝術家談「50年不變」問打工仔可否「唔撈」”, 4 February 2019 (included in the guide on what to see at Art Central)
gal-dem, "‘Radical Love: Female Lust’: turning historic Arabic poetry into contemporary art" by Olamiju Fajemisin, 27 February 2017
i-D, "these artists are creatively inspired by arabic poetry of love and lust" by Matthew Whitehouse, 20 February 2017
Var-matin, "Tout ce qu'il faut savoir sur le Festival "Vrrrr" à Toulon", 20 September 2016
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WORKSHOP FACILITATION & ART EDUCATION
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2023
Kakilang – Finding Our (CREATIVE) Voice, a 4 week course of creative sessions for 16+ in the ESEA community that culminated to a sharing event, co-facilitated with Daniel York Loh.
2021 - 2023
Drawing Room London - ROCK PAPER SCISSORS engagement programme, delivered an afterschool club, a teacher CPD session, a family studio session and took a 6 weeks in-school residency at Charlotte Sharman Primary School, which also resulted in the publication “Teachers’ Assembly: Drawing As Play”, published by Drawing Room as part of their teachers resource series, supported by Freelands Foundation.
2022 - 2023
The White House Dagenham - Summer Workshop for youth and families.
2022
FACT Liverpool - World Wide Wontons Tang Yuan workshop, led with Cuong Pham as part of Asia-Art-Activism; part of the public programme for the exhibition Future Ages Will Wonder, curated by Annie Jael Kwan.
Museum of the Home - At Home in a Cup, a paper cup making drop in workshop that explore the ideas and experiences of home through the cup of tea; part of Welcome Home Friend Chào mừng bạn về nhà half term activities for families programme.
2021
Chisenhale Studios Into the Wild - an alternative arts education programme, paper resource contribution
Royal Museums Greenwich - Mapping Worlds, Young Volunteers February Half-Term Project (facilitated workshops online using Padlet and created printed resources for young people exploring drawing through mapping and walking)
2020
Decorating Dissidence - Art Jam (a Dada themed online workshop that explored collaborative nonsense and sense making with improvisation, done entirely online using Google Docs); a part of the Take DADA seriously? programme with Young Creators UK.
2019
Draw to Perform – “Monotyping in performance drawing context” workshop for adults and “Experimental Drawing” workshop for resident artists at the Draw To Perform Residency Programme.
National Sun Yat Sen University – Experimental drawing workshop with university students at The Pier 2 Art Centre, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
2018 - 2019
Bow Arts Learning – selection of projects includes: Canaan Project (Year 9) Collective Monotyping workshop; Phoenix School (SEND group aged 7-8) Mark making workshop; Swanlea School (Year7) Making through play workshop.
2018
Tate - Created L is for Living Cities paper self-led student resource for Tate Modern’s ASSEMBLY 2018
2017 - 2018
Bow Arts Artist Educator Trainee Programme - Facilitating art workshops within school settings. Worked with students from Yr3 to Yr6.
2017 - 2018
Cubitt Artists' Institute of Anything - Experimental & Performative Drawing workshops with young people (13-19 years old) as part of the 2017 & 2018 programme as well as shorter taster sessions.
2016
Goldsmiths Arts & Design Saturday Club - Take a line for a gif, performance drawing workshop for young people (13-16 years old), co-facilitated with Ram Samocha.
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2018 - 2019
Syllabus IV (delivered in partnership with Wysing Arts Centre, INIVA, Spike Island, Studio Voltaire, Eastside Projects and S1 Artspace)
2005
BA Computer Visualisation & Animation (Bournemouth University): 1st class honour
2001
MEng Computer Science (Bristol University): completed 1st year