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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  • September 2026, Summary

    September 2026, Summary

    The happiest moment of this September is found out my spdb benefit gets approved. I also bought a new bag(60 bucks, so affordable), several notebooks and a book called camera girl about Jackie Kennedy when she was younger. To me it seems to reminisce about how ambitious and hardworking she was when she was younger.… Read more

  • death penalty, some thoughts

    death penalty, some thoughts

    why is death penalty and executions still existing in today’s world? when me – too started, everybody becomes more liberal. in recent time, as the power of press declined, people have reversed back to a more conservative era viewing women, inmates and children as exploitative burdens on people’s consciousness. no one seems to care how… Read more

  • Donald Trump, West Village Girls

    Donald Trump, West Village Girls

    is west village girl a stereotype? in 2019, people are still berating the basic-ness of the millennials. after several years, people are fighting to become them. competition to get into the right apartment has become white hot. the ideal of village life has presented itself as a slogan right out of the dance, music and… Read more

  • Hong Kong, Chief Executive

    Hong Kong, Chief Executive

    Hong Kong is not a city. The world meetings between mayors exclude Hong Kong. Hong Kong doesn’t have mayors. Hong Kong has chief executive, currently John Lee Ka-Chiu. Is Hong Kong a district or a city? It has affected how people see Hong Kong. Its special status is what makes Hong Kong a financial center,… Read more

  • States

    States

    Me too movement in China is different than the me too movement in North America. It’s less about sexual assault and harassment. It’s more about how people could freely express themselves in a repressive state. The obstacles are state machinery and censorship. People have been arrested by protesting the state powers through this movement. It… Read more

  • Uncanny

    Uncanny

    I used to shoot videos with a teddy bear. It makes the video take on an uncanny aesthetics. Read more

  • China, protests

    China, protests

    China has been on my mind recently. The fact me too movement has taken roots in China suggest there are more people who needs free legal help. The recent news has covered and obliterated the part of which Chinese people make efforts to produce works related to the movement and relevant events. Is contemporary China… Read more

  • Community

    Community

    Nowadays I got a boyfriend by directly naming him as my boyfriend. I was on the train. And an old woman was telling me to put my leg another way. I found that disturbing. But I put my leg to another direction anyway. It turns out people don’t usually have a direction. It’s human nature… Read more

  • People

    People

    the exhibition at a space gallery, bromelias inhabiting water, and other exhibitions at 401 Richmond showed a world of natural wonders. It has created a deeply troubling dimension through videos, sounds and installation. People seem to move away from this type of one man opinion about politics and nature. It has shown a strongly biased… Read more

  • America

    America

    America is big. America is dangerous. When I passed through Colorado mountain range on a greyhound bus in June i had experienced an awakening. We stopped at one of the stops. And we waited the bus to be serviced. I looked around. Everything was so huge. It made my heart skip a beat. I bought… Read more