Liverpool Biennial 2025 marks the return of the festival to Chinatown, at a point when the area is celebrating the past and looking ahead to the future. Both artists at Pine Court explore the construction of East and Southeast Asian identity within Western contexts.
2 artists in this exhibition
Karen Tam 譚嘉文 presents a multimedia installation ‘Scent of Thunderbolts’, which addresses Chinese diasporic sonic memory in the form of a Cantonese opera. First created for Toronto Biennial 2024, the work draws inspiration from archival materials and conversations with community members, integrating reimagined elements from Cantonese opera including props, stage settings, backdrops and furniture.
Following a series of workshops with Liverpool residents, ChihChung Chang 張致中 will create a collective, temporary public artwork made of charcoal rubbings, arranged together to depict the city’s iconic Chinese Arch. The resulting film documenting the process will be exhibited at Pine Court.