Taro fried rice Sugarcane water Live lobster stir fry

About this project

吃饭 (Chi-Fan) is a visual arts / heritage studies project tracing the intimate stories and migration of family recipes across the contested “Chinese diaspora”.
Materialising as a minigame, audiences enter animated kitchens which are vivified by interviews between young people who identify as a member of the Chinese diaspora and their relatives about a family recipe. Each kitchen features: audio ruminations about the recipe; photo essays of the cooking methodology; the dish’s cultural significance; and intimate vignettes of domestic spaces.
By playfully weaving these interpretations of a ‘family recipe’, 吃饭 (Chi-Fan) presents an alternative version of the ‘Chinese diaspora’ - beyond surnames, passports or dialects. The project gives licence for the interrogation of who defines cultural history.
Almonds in a bowl Mint Rock sugar Taro Ham

The team

Dylan Goh - Curator

Dylan Goh

Born on unceded Bidjigal lands, Dylan Goh is a cultural practitioner with 7 years’ experience as an artist, curator, dancer and museum worker. Drawing upon his upbringing as a 2nd generation Asian Australian, Dylan’s practice centres around intimate vignettes of culture in everyday life. Often working with family and communities, he accumulates these acutely rendered stories to disarm audiences and engender empathy. As the New Colombo Plan Fellow (Republic of Korea), Dylan is undertaking a fellowship in South Korea to explore the role of street dance in cultural diplomacy.

Amy Ge - Illustrator

Amy Ge is a Chinese-Australian artist and illustrator from Noongar country (Perth, Western Australia) currently living and practicing on Gadigal land (Sydney, New South Wales). Her work grapples with finding joy in incoherence and the layers of meaning lost-in-translation. Ge’s print, illustration and animation work have been exhibited at the National Maritime Museum, Sydney Design Festival, Lane Cove Gallery, UNSW Galleries, Kudos Gallery and in publications such as Voiceworks Australia.

Amy Ge

Jane Fan - Web developer

Jane Fan

Jane Fan is a software engineer and digital artist based in Sydney, Australia. Her works span a variety of mediums including illustration, 3D computer graphics, generative and interactive art. She employs web and game technologies to create her works, assisted by webcams, 3D cameras and microphones if they are interactive. Her artworks explore the body as an interface, surveillance, artificial intelligence and minority identities in digital spaces. She is part of the Sydney based New Media Arts group known as Origin Collective.

Wok Chopsticks Chinese cleaver Rice cooker

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