Yuling Chen is a Chinese Canadian new media artist. She is specialized in making works about beauty, labour and racial tensions using media archives exploring histories of new media art. She was born in 1990 on the southern small island of China, Hainan Island, in the city of Danzhou. When she was young she led a nomadic life moving from cities to cities, homes to homes and places to places. Thus, she had discovered her love in literature, obsession with identity, and eyes for design.


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I read about the prostitutes in Los Angeles on the New York Times a while ago. I was in Los Angeles in June. I found it really spacious. The city seems like a gigantic mess of empty buildings and people. I didn’t get to take videos of people there that much. But I did take some videos of the museum. At the hostel I stayed at, people came back rooms late in the night. They brought people along with them seemingly drunk. In the daytime I politely said hello. My toilet got stuck. Then I had to communicate that with people who worked at the hostel. I went out in the daytime again. I was determined to write about the museum and shows. I created a system of writing. I did that for a few weeks. And it really didn’t get any responses. So I decided to unravel the system and write in a new way recently. While I was still in Los Angeles, I went to the academy awards museum. But they told me they were closed for the day. I was disappointed. I was looking forward to the Marilyn Monroe exhibition there. Anyway, I left. Etc. 

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