Don Chow

Selected Performance/Art Works

social: https://linktr.ee/donchow contact: donchow at protonmail


The Drive To 2021

Performance and temporary installation for 'Look Toward the Sun' exhibition (Lam Wong/Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun),
Dr. Sun Yat-sen Classical Chinese Gardens, September, 2021

Photography: Vincent Wong


"dub this road" TAIKOPERA (Part One)

Concept, production and direction: Don Chow

Cast: Jeanette Kotowich, Thai-Hoa Le, Eri Kikuchi, Denise Sherwood, Sawagi Taiko, Onibana Taiko

Special remixes by Adrian Sherwood/On-u Sound (UK)

Commission and premiere (online only): Powell Street Festival, Vancouver, July, 2021


Ritual Landscapes

Temporary public land art installation and performance series, November, 2020 - April, 2021, Stanley Park, Vancouver



(Excerpt From) A Requiem For Patrice Lumumba

Art's Birthday Vancouver, January 2020

Performance and live web stream from Bestway studios, Chinatown

Photography: Vincent Wong










Dream-in for Peace

LIVE Biennale, October 2019

Performance installation (about the assassination of John Lennon) developed in collaboration/workshop with RedPlexus/Ornic'art (Marseilles, France) collective series 'Do Not Disturb'.

Patricia Hotel | Vancouver, Canada

Photography: Ravi Gill


'Discobulus Inferno'

September, 2018

Performance/Video/Installation: In Ruins Residency

Scolacium Archaeological Park | Calabria, Italy

Photography: Alice Guittard


Venice International Performance Art Week

December, 2017

European Cultural Centre | Palazzo Mora - Venice, Italy

Solo performance: 'Afferare la Coda del Passero (Part One)' and Group performance with VestAndPage workshop

Curator: Francesca Carol Rolla

Photography: Mauro Sambo, Lorenza Cini


Art's Birthday London

January, 2018

Red Gallery - London, England

Photography: Ivan Donadio


Solo performance: 'Afferare la Coda del Passero (Part Two)' (with Andrea Greenwood)


Full six-hour live web stream from Red Gallery, London with artists Eva Martino, Fay Burnett, Katie-Louise Vowles, Sylvie Shiwei Barbier, Maria Luigia Gioffre, Ashley-Louise McNaughton, Andrea Greenwood, Don Chow



Art's Birthday Tokyo

January, 2016

Art Lab Tokyo - Tokyo, Japan


Solo performance (sound): 'LMYVII' based on La Monte Young's Composition 1960 #7, with Trolley Bus aka Bryan Mulvihill



NOW (New Orchestra Workshop) Concert

December, 2015

Western Front - Vancouver, Canada


Composer, Conductor/Performer: 'Seven Breaths for Aylan Kurdi'



NOW (New Orchestra Workshop) Concert

November, 2014

Western Front - Vancouver, Canada


Composer, Conductor: 'Prayer for Assata Shakur (Part One, for nine musicians)



FUSE

Asian-Canadian Music Series

May, 2002 (performances), July, 2017 (video)

VFS, Vancouver, Canada


Curator, Solo performance: 'Yellow Planet' with various artists



Yellow Peril Project Vol.1

Vinyl record, 1995

Artist, composer/producer



Spiderman vs. People's Liberation Army at Tiananmen Square

Video, 2010

Video artist

Premiered at Nara Art Bridge exhibition, Nara, Japan, 2010