Sun Chang
Sun Chang is a social artist, independent publisher and pedagogical designer based in Amsterdam. Sun’s participatory and community-based projects investigate social fabrics and assigned social roles. By using art’s autonomy to re-exemplify the values of exchange, Sun deconstructs social relations and challenge notions of intimacy, family, ethnicity, and borders.
Sun is the initiator and artistic director of to M•Others, a core team member at Travelling Farm Museum of Forgotten Skills for Casco Art Institute (2019 – 2020) and an artist-member in The Basic Activist Kitchen in BAK (2019 – 2020). Sun was an artist in residence at Guangdong Times Museum (2022-2023), Witte Rook (2022), CBK Zuidoost (2021), Werkplaats Molenwijk (2023) and has received talent support from Mondriaan Fund (2022 – 2023).
Sun works as cultural programmer for Gemeente Amsterdam in LYCKA Buurtkamer in 2022, and as a knowledge producer for Master Education in Arts at the Piet Zwart Institute since 2021. Sun co-founded Lost Dad Publishing, which presents at international book fairs, such as Zine Happening VII in Ghent BE (2022), Libros Mutantes in Madrid ES (2020-2021), Artist Self-Publishers’ Fair in London UK (2019).
Agenda
Family Embodiment Practice: Book Kin, Home Arrival
Social artist Sun Chang hosts a ritual homecoming for 'Family Embodiment Practice', a queer-migrant art pedagogy shaped through six years of community research
Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 5 - Synthetic Ancestors, Becoming-With Symbiotic Kin
A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together
Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 4 - Re-Stor(y)ing Transformation, Braiding the Hybrid Bio-Landscape
A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together
Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 3 – Repair Speculative Kin
A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together
Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 2 - Water Bodies
A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together
Family Embodiment Programme: Ritual 1 - Becoming Wind(s)
A monthly ritual to collectively explore feelings of (un)belonging and practice care together
Award Ceremony Young Artsupport Amsterdam
Award ceremony from Young Artsupport Amsterdam Foundation
Rise & Shine: Midzomer Mokum in the Molenwijk
Workshops for young people during Midzomer Mokum at Werkplaats Molenwijk and Satirius
Creative Publication Launch: to M•Others #2
Launch of publication 'to M•Others #2' with initiator Sun Chang during Queer Open Stage
M•Others' Day in Molenwijk
M•Others' Day celebration in Werkplaats Molenwijk with games, music, food and discussions about parenthood and caretaking.
Magazine
Molenwijk / Amsterdam Noord / Community & Learning / Queer / Social Practice /
Action Research / Citizenship / Community & Learning /
Z! and Arts of the Working Class: Co-publication of Amsterdam and Berlin street newspapers in collaboration with Framer Framed
Molenwijk / Amsterdam Noord / Community & Learning / Queer / Workshop /
Report: Mapping the Currents, Housing for Winds in Molenwijk with to M•Others
Feminism / Molenwijk / Social Practice /
Report: M•Other's Day in Molenwijk
Amsterdam Noord / Feminism / Molenwijk /