Yu Hang Huang’s Video: Identity Correlations Series-VSC
Yu-Hang Huang combines performance and installation to investigate the notion of “moving identity” which relates to displacement, subjectivity, and race, as well as to the interactions between the body and surroundings. She received the Freeman Asian Artist Fellowship from VSC for a two-month residency in November and December of 2009. During her residency, Huang made a series of documentary photos, a fabric installation and video, see above.
In the video, VSC’s Lowe Lecture Hall, a historic building, is featured as an integral component of the work. Huang fabricated a simplified New England style house, and one that echoes the architecture of the Lecture Hall. This, she wears, so that the meaning of the structure, combined with her simple actions of slowly entering and exiting the historic building, suggests a layering of echoes, implications and questions. What does it mean to be protected, to be an intruder, to be included, to be excluded, to be a part of the local community, etc? What is real and what is staged? What do these questions mean today, as well as in the larger context of history?
As a recent MFA graduate from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago, Huang has shown her work at the Museum of Fine Art in Boson, the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts in San Francisco, the World Ceramic Biennale in Korea, the Yingge Ceramics Museum in Taiwan, as well as in galleries in New York, Chicago and Vancouver. For more information, please go to: www.yuhanghuang.com