Dismantle / Assemble

Dismantle / Assemble by Cindy Yuen-Zhe Chen holds stories of tactility told through encounters with the artist's maternal grandfather's coins and grandmother's cultural garments. A four-channel video work made in collaboration with artists Phuong Ngo, Marikit Santiago and Jayanto Tan reflects upon the artists' trajectories of intergenerational migration and cultural transmission. Tactile sound sculptures explore their sense of emplacement, inviting people to encounter sonic waterways in Sydney and Melbourne by touching carved surfaces that merge topographies of their cultural homelands in Southeast Asia with colonial coins. This exhibition includes tactile sound sculptures, audio descriptions for blind and low vision audiences, and Auslan videos for d/Deaf and Hard of Hearing audiences.