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.


Dance, Waterfront

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In 2021 I went to an activity at waterfront after I saw Chuyao Fang several times in the city. I even saw her mother using a selfie stick at the city hall. What I saw was a dance talk by her friends from the high school and university. Or someone resembles her or them. I was sitting beside a group of white people. They stared at me occasionally. So I assumed they were German and rich. Afterwards, I got back to my apartment dancing in my room. I ran towards my walls and plastered myself all over the walls. Then I spinned as a part of choreography I did getting inspired by the talk. I didn’t know that’s the first time I had interacted with people, strangers who I saw at the waterfront and all over the places. Etc. 

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