{"id":120,"date":"2019-07-30T05:33:29","date_gmt":"2019-07-30T12:33:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.jonicheung.com\/?page_id=120"},"modified":"2024-10-14T20:33:56","modified_gmt":"2024-10-15T03:33:56","slug":"whats-she-about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.jonicheung.com\/whats-she-about\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image is-style-rounded\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large is-resized\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"768\" height=\"1024\" src=\"https:\/\/www.jonicheung.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cats-and-burbs-Snack-Witch-768x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-967\" style=\"width:384px;height:512px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.jonicheung.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cats-and-burbs-Snack-Witch-768x1024.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.jonicheung.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cats-and-burbs-Snack-Witch-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.jonicheung.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cats-and-burbs-Snack-Witch-800x1067.jpg 800w, https:\/\/www.jonicheung.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/cats-and-burbs-Snack-Witch.jpg 998w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n<p><br>Through an interdisciplinary artistic practice, I investigate the interdependent relationship between objects, place, and identity. As a Canadian-born Hong Kong-Chinese queer, anglophone woman, I use this lens to navigate discourses of transnationalism, migration, displacement, and diasporas.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Growing up tirelessly grasping at my language \u2234 culture, I soothed my hunger for connection via online communication\/sharing platforms and by eating. These ingredients helped a hopeful pessimist calm rolling waves of loneliness and learn about their heritage and ancestry. Sifting through family memories of displacement\u2014usually in-between conversations held over food-covered tables\u2014and prickly experiences of trying to blend in until smooth, nourish points of interest to reflect and respond to global contexts and (hi)stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Conducting research is a ritual that molds the way I work. Chewing on the spectrum of transparency \u2194 opacity and translation of forms (physical \u2194 digital) and stories, I collect and layer still and moving images from archives and contemporary media, words, sound(scapes), objects, and places. This research simmers into installations conjured up with sculptures, performances, texts, audio explorations, photographs, and videos\u2014marinating and transforming accumulated ephemera often overlooked by those outside of my communities. As of late, I have been using food and humour to draw people in with the familiar, to confront the uncomfortable histories embedded in the everyday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center\">\ud83c\udf75\ud83c\udf36\ufe0f\ud83e\udd6d\ud83c\udf72\ud83e\udd5f\ud83e\udd58\ud83c\udf66\ud83c\udf70\ud83c\udf4d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\ud83d\udd2e Snack Witch Joni Cheung \ud83c\udf61 is a grateful, uninvited guest born\u2014and knows she wants to die\u2014on the unceded territories of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8kw\u0259y\u0313\u0259m, Skwxw\u00fa7mesh, St\u00f3:l\u014d, and S\u0259l\u0313\u00edlw\u0259ta\u0294\/Selilwitulh peoples. They are a Certified Sculpture Witch with an MFA from Concordia University (2023). She holds a BFA with Distinction in Visual Art (2018) from the School for the Contemporary Arts at Simon Fraser University. As a wicked #magicalgirl \u2728 who eats art and makes snacks, she has exhibited and curated shows, off- and online, \u00a0across Turtle Island and beyond. Currently, they are based on the stolen lands of the Kanien\u2019keh\u00e1:ka peoples, working as a part-time lecturer in the Department of Design and Computation Arts at Concordia University.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>They are a recipient of numerous awards, including the Individual Arts Grants\u2014Visual Artists: British Columbia Arts Council; Research and Creation Grant: Canada Council for the Arts; and the Dale and Nick Tedeschi Studio Arts Fellowship: Concordia University. 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Growing up tirelessly grasping at my language \u2234 culture, I soothed my hunger for connection via online communication\/sharing platforms [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":2,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-120","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v23.9 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>About - \ud83d\udd2e SNACK WITCH JONI CHEUNG \ud83c\udf61<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"\ud83d\udd2e Snack Witch aka Joni Cheung \ud83c\udf61 is a grateful, uninvited guest born\u2014and knows she wants to die\u2014on the unceded territories of the x\u02b7m\u0259\u03b8kw\u0259y\u0313\u0259m, Skwxw\u00fa7mesh, St\u00f3:l\u014d, and S\u0259l\u0313\u00edlw\u0259ta\u0294\/Selilwitulh peoples. 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