HOOI-YING ASH ZHANG 张海莹









DIASPORA“How has being Chinese diaspora influenced my experiences? How do these experiences relate to other diaspora identities and how can we learn from each other? What connects us and what makes us different? How is my experience of love and loneliness influenced by my history, heritage and surroundings?” Diaspora is an ongoing research into the Chinese diaspora identity with relations to the Netherlands and Dutch culture, as well as to other diaspora identities. In this research, Hooi-Ying does not shy away from vulnerable topics and instead brings forth this vulnerability to give space for an open and honest discussion around belonging.








A Movement


Type:     Video
          Poem
          Performance
Location: Willem de Kooning

Year:     2023
An interdisciplinary work called into existence through discussions around ‘Dear Dad,’. The work brings forward and explores the Chinese diaspora identity of the dancers in the context of their heritage and the Netherlands.


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公公‘s Jacket


Type:     Poem
          Performance
Location: Theater Rotterdam TR8

Year:     2023

Following on ‘Dear Dad,’, through storytelling Hooi-Ying explores the relationship with their grandfather, through the form of theatre.


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Dear Dad,


Type:     Poem
          Performance
Location: Studio de Bakkerij

Year:     2023
A performance in the form of a conversation between Hooi-Ying’s spoken words and Hooi-Ying’s dance. In it they explore their relationship to their father, from the perspective of being the child of an immigrant.


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Does the I Exist?


Type:     Collages
Year:     2022
A series of 12 Collages of Chinatown as a questioning, material exploration and research of the interconnectivity of diaspora identities in Rotterdam.


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