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URL:https://www.artinliverpool.com/events/bluecoat-exhibition-preview-mich
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SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Exhibition preview: Michelle Williams Gamaker &
  Dahong Hongxuan Wang
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nExhibition preview: Michelle Williams Gamaker: Our Mounta
 ins are Painted on Glass and Dahong Hongxuan Wang: Role Model Thursday 2nd
  May\, 6-9pm\n\n\n\nJoin us for a first look at our new exhibition. Miche
 lle Williams Gamaker and Dahong Hongxuan Wang will continue the season
  The Lives of Artists with their exhibitions Our Mountains Are Painted 
 on Glass and Role Model.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nExhibition Preview: Thu 2 
 May\, 6pm - 9pm\n\nTake a first look at our new exhibition\, part of The 
 Lives of Artists season at the Bluecoat.\nThe evening will give you a pre
 view of Our Mountains Are Painted on Glass by Michelle Williams Gamaker
  as well as Role Model by Dahong Hongxuan Wang.\nAward winning moving 
 image artist Michelle Williams Gamaker (b.1979\, London) has developed Fic
 tional Activism to interrogate 20th Century cinema\, by retelling the hist
 ories of marginalised actors and by proposing critical alternatives to col
 onial storytelling in British and Hollywood studio films.\nKnown for her i
 nventive filmmaking and screenwriting\, Williams Gamaker draws on and cele
 brates the classic movies she watched growing up\, and takes inspiration f
 rom early Hollywood and British cinema. The exhibition at Bluecoat will sc
 reen Thieves\, a fantasy adventure retelling of The Thief of Bagdad. Th
 e Thief of Bagdad\, a silent\, black and white film from 1924\, was remad
 e in colour in 1940.\nOur Mountains Are Painted on Glass was co-commissio
 ned by South London Gallery and DCA.\nDahong Hongxuan Wang\, an artist wh
 o has played the role of Anna May Wong in several of Williams Gamaker’s 
 works\, will exhibit her new film Role Models. Hongxuan Wang’s new film
  follows the path of Anna May Wong who travelled to her ancestral hometown
  of Taishan\, Guangdong. Having been rejected by Hollywood in favour of ac
 tors in the racist make-up technique of yellowface\, Wong set off on a tou
 r of China. Reflecting back on her time in China and America\, Wong said 
 “It's a pretty sad situation to be rejected by the Chinese because I'm '
 too American' and by American producers because they want other races to a
 ct Chinese parts.” Through her vocal and symbolic acts of resistance and
  critique\, Hongxuan Wang finds a role model in Anna May Wong\, “a moder
 n\, Chinese\, young female performer has finally found her lifetime role m
 odel”. Role Models will feature a director-like Anna (played by Hongxu
 an Wang)\, who ultimately succeeds in dominating the whole documentary pro
 cess.\nWriter Jennifer Lee Tsai will perform in response to our The Liv
 es of Artists season as our featured writer. Her work often looks to the 
 second generation immigrant experience\, and explores themes of ancestral 
 trauma\, loss and belonging. Tsai draws on her own life\, the lives of her
  family and the lives of others around her to create beautiful and powerfu
 l work that helps us understand each other and resonate with our own sense
  of self.\nThe exhibitions form the basis for a new approach which will se
 e the Bluecoat split its programming into three seasons.\n\n\n\n\n
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CATEGORIES:Exhibition Launch
LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K
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