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