Bo Yeung | June 2021


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Grateful to have this opportunity to make space to have conversations about and with Tong Ho, a common Chinese vegetable also known as edible chrysanthemum. The story of these immigrant seeds was planted, eaten, seeded, harvested stored on repeat around 20 lunar years ago by my auntie. She gifted me the seeds two years ago so there’s something that tastes like home. Excited to dig deeper about it and folks relationship with Tong Ho or other seeds that reminds you of home.


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Bo Yeung (she/her) is a multidisciplinary chinese canadian artist, whose work is primarily textiles, family belongings, performances and installations. She resides on the traditional territory of Tr’ondëk Hwëchin in Dawson City, Yukon. Yeung immigrated in 1995 from a rice farming village in Kaiping, China to Vancouver and from that moment on there has been a complex relationship in unsettling belongings, diaspora and community. She was raised in a family chinese restaurant, in Kamloops where she completed her BFA at TRU(Thompson Rivers University) both spaces ignited the reimagining of the narrative in chinese diaspora. This conversation includes her ancestors, the work is an offering to them.