Artist Talk and Potluck Event
Amy Wong – 2018
Over a potluck-style meal, Toronto-based artist, Amy Wong, will present a performative artist talk titled ‘Coming together, making space’, addressing the practice of healing through food, with a focus on community engagement as a form of resistance.
In collaboration with AKA artist-run‘s project, Locals Only, Modern Fuel will host a gathering of youth, community members, and artists for an evening dedicated to intimate discussion surrounding food culture and contemporary art on October 27th, 2018 at 6:30 pm.
Over a potluck-style meal, Toronto-based artist, Amy Wong, will present a performative artist talk titled ‘Coming together, making space’, addressing the practice of healing through food, with a focus on community engagement as a form of resistance. In an effort to explore new points of solidarity with the wider Kingston community, Modern Fuel has also invited both local organizations and Queen’s University affiliated groups as participants and respondents. We look forward to discovering the ways in which the event will offer visions of what healing might look like through the practice of collectivism and food sharing.
Thank you to our community partner Juniper Cafe for sponsoring this event. Located in the Tett Centre, Kingston, Ontario, Juniper Cafe is an independently run business that is proud to use at least 75% local food year round.
About the Artist
Amy Wong—
Amy Wong is an oil painter who navigates mixtape culture to claim feminist space. She is also founder of the Angry Asian Feminist Gang (AAFG), a collective of Diaspora cultural producers dedicated to dialogue centered on Asian feminist concerns. Her practice ranges from painting-based installation to collaborative projects that explore the politics of making noise, and conditioning spaces that allow for thinking through together.