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In this episode Satelliser coworker elena rose light meets JJ Chan and June Lam. Their conversation dances through many ideas and experiences including: ambiguity and time, choreographies of law and protest, plurality and shift in identification across spaces, refusal, joy, and locating the role and positionality of the artist in relation to expectations, institutions and codes.
JJ Chan is an artist who works across sculpture, moving image, and writing. Their work draws from lived experience and stories stolen from eavesdropped conversations, to explore the edges of our everyday realities and the ways in which we construct our identities.
June Lam is a community organiser and multidisciplinary artist of Chinese and Vietnamese ancestry living in London. He works across performance, dance, sculpture and collage with practices that seek to challenge white colonial desirability optics and locate gender expansive possibilities for pleasure and joy as a queer East Asian femme trans man.
elena rose light is a white, trans/nonbinary choreographer and performer originally from Southern California (Micqanaqa’n), currently living in Berlin, Germany. Their creative practice is rooted in the potential of antiracist, queer, and non-binary somatics to reorganize systems of thought and social codes.
JJ Chan (they/them)
JJ Chan is an artist who works across sculpture, moving image, and writing. Their work draws from lived experience and stories stolen from eavesdropped conversations, to explore the edges of our everyday realities and the ways in which we construct our identities. Through storytelling and world-building, the work (re)searches for an alternative space beyond aggressively progressive capitalist time, seeking new worlds from the ashes of the present. JJ Chan was born in Doncaster, South Yorkshire. Since March 2021 JJ has been the Blueprints for the Otherwise artist-in-residence at Bloc Projects, Sheffield. They are currently Senior Lecturer in Fine Art at Kingston School of Art.
June Lam (he/him)
June Lam (b. 1990) is a community organiser and multidisciplinary artist of Chinese and Vietnamese ancestry, living in London and working across performance, dance, sculpture and collage. As a performer of live art, he has worked with modes of somatic learning and movement as a form of gender exploration. In his practice he seeks challenge white colonial desirability optics and locate gender expansive possibilities for pleasure and joy as a queer East Asian femme trans man. Recent performance credits include Rebecca Jagoe ‘The Peterborough Lapidary’ Site Gallery, Sheffield (2021), Raisa Kabir ‘A House Made of Tin (A Socially Distanced Weaving Performance), Ford Foundation Gallery, New York (2020), Dylan Spencer Davidson ‘Affective Dynamics Study Group’, Volksbühne, Berlin (2020), the UK debut staging Nedko Solakov’s A Life (Black & White), Tate Modern, London (2020); Yvonne Rainer’s We Shall Run for London Contemporary Music Festival, Ambika P3, London (2018).
elena rose light (they/them)
elena rose light is a choreographer and performer originally from Southern California (Micqanaqa’n). Their work is rooted in the potential for somatic empathy to reorganize systems of thought and governance, and has been presented by Abrons Arts Center, Gibney, Center for Performance Research, Brooklyn Arts Exchange, The Current Sessions, and Movement Research at Judson Church, among other venues. elena has also performed in the work of Ursula Eagly, Bouchra Ouizguen, Tino Sehgal, Asad Raza, and others. They studied art history and French literature at Yale University, where they first became enamoured with experimental performance.