Eelyn Lee in Conversation with Sci-Fi writer, Dr Yen Ooi
An illustrated discussion with artist Eelyn Lee and writer-researcher, Dr Yen Ooi about their ongoing collaboration –a call and response creative dialogue between artist and writer. Drawing on migratory energies and ancestral stories, their work creates new orientations, shaped by East and Southeast Asian [ESEA] diasporic experiences.
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In 2023 Eelyn invited Yen to make a written response to her exhibition, Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸 [Bloc Projects, Sept-Oct, 2023], an immersive video installation reimagining ESEA identities through the creation of four new mythological characters. In Yen’s short story response, The Temple, Sheffield becomes Sharefield, where the smell of jasmine fills the streets, and the gallery is a portal to another time and place. This year, Yen has written, Three Constellations, a series of poems in response to Eelyn’s, Saam Sing 三星, a moving image work, currently on display at Graves Gallery.
The event will take place in the gallery with an opportunity to view Saam Sing 三星 and extracts from Four Quadrants of the Sky 四大神獸. Yen will present the first ever public readings from The Temple and Three Constellations.
