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Come check out our installation at this years @queerarts - on until June 26!! . "Yellow Peril: Queer Destiny" explores the nuances of queer Chinese diasporic culture through the medium of the Chinese elements. In Chinese culture, the elements also have numerous approaches to understanding ways of “being”; they also have principles of metaphysics, and temporalities. In this installation, we invoke these elements through different images, as a conduit to understanding queer East Asian cultural formations, as not an intellectual delineation, but a way to investigate the embodiment of queer Chinese, diasporic identity. This intimate artistic exploration is an invitation to engage with the ways that as queer and racialized people, our sexualities are deeply imbricated with our cultural identities. The installation offers three performances: The first one juxtaposes (drag artist) Maiden China in a bridal gown on the land, referencing intersections between Chinese people in the diaspora, and our relationships to the land, and also complicity to the settler-colonial state. The second performance is an ancestral veneration ceremony performed at Larwill Park, which was the original gathering site for the anti-Oriental riots in 1907. The ceremony invokes a "temporal glitch" (referencing Saidiya Hartman), illuminating how the violence towards racialized (queer) bodies in the past, runs parallel to the lived experiences of queers of colour today. The third performance is the “rice burial and dance”; using the metaphor of rice - as a metaphor for nourishment, as intrinsic to numerous cultures, particularly Asian cultures - and the movement of the queer asian subject, circulating, and circulating, and diving, and pushing, feeling, the messiness of the diasporic, and hyphenated identity. The “rice burial” invokes a deep immersion into the messiness of diasporic identity, with the reversal of the shot detailing the individual grains of culture and identity that “come together” to form a subject.