Kam Chan

Playing with words and playing with material, I create opportunity for conversation. I hope to preserve these interactions in order to help me understand the matter in and around me. Allowing for mistakes, exchanges and traces to be left behind.

Working across disciplines from printmaking to performance and materials such as clay and photography, Kam is within an ongoing battle to understand “what does it mean to belong in something?”; to expose the in-between and ‘just’ happening spaces that are often overlooked or missed. This struggle is born from being a British Born Chinese (BBC) and feeling forever in two states.

My Art is Dead comes from the idea that art (as a verb) is mourning; between being created (thus alive) and being completed (thus dead). As artists we are between remembering and forgetting. Kam wants to celebrate the mundane pauses that happen in this space and allow for conversation to happen between our thoughts, material, process and place.

Kam Chan is an artist and producer. She is the Engagement Producer for the Data + Design Lab, the Edinburgh Futures Institute; a Co-Producer for the Architecture Fringe and a VAS Council Member. She is interested in the intersections of communication, connection and consensus. As an artist, she works across various mediums such as printmaking, photography and clay. Her practice is currently engaged in a year long conceptual inquiry into contemporary ceramics with A-B Projects based in Los Angeles.