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Gayle Chong Kwan: Underground exchanges
Charles Danby explores how Gayle Chong Kwan developed avenues of exchange centred on relationships with food through a community-based residency facilitated by Platform for Art.
UK-based artist Gayle Chong Kwan was approached in 2006 by Platform for Art and invited to take part in a project that from the outset marked itself out from other residency programmes. What unfolded over the extended year of partnership between Gayle Chong Kwan and Platform for Art was a road map that tested the structural ethos of residency programmes, and placed each protagonist in a play of their own making, constructing a space of activity, a test site designed to countenance community process and artistic endeavour. The starting point of Chong Kwan’s residency was an invitation without condition, an offer to partake in a collaborative process, the site, or sites of which were not determined, nor the work or type of work to be made, nor even the contextual ground linking these to considerations of person, place or transport system. What was proposed was a point of trust and opportunity, the facility for both parties to determine the aspect and direction of their interaction in respect of resource and time. On the side of Platform for Art, this included allowing lines of communication and sites of operation to emerge as a consequence of a working process, rather than in...
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