Generated by All in One SEO v4.9.10, this is an llms.txt file, used by LLMs to index the site. # Henry Tsang ## Sitemaps - [XML Sitemap](https://henrytsang.ca/sitemap.xml): Contains all public & indexable URLs for this website. ## Posts - [White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver](https://henrytsang.ca/white-riot-the-1907-anti-asian-riots-in-vancouver/) - Explores the conditions leading up to and the impact of a demonstration and parade in Vancouver, Canada, organized by the Asiatic Exclusion League and the ensuing mob attack on the city's Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities. - [Maraya](https://henrytsang.ca/maraya/) - Maraya, 2008-2015, is a large-scale art and new media project in collaboration with Glen Lowry and M. Simon Levin that links two urban waterfronts that share a similar design and plan. - [Maraya: Sisyphean Cart](https://henrytsang.ca/maraya-sisyphean-cart/) - Maraya: Sisyphean Cart is a mobile ‘sousveillance’ cart that conducted a site-specific participatory spatial investigation of Vancouver’s False Creek and the Dubai Marina. - [360 Riot Walk](https://henrytsang.ca/360-riot-walk/) - 360 Riot Walk is a 360 video walking tour of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots that traces the route of the mob that attacked the Chinese Canadian and Japanese Canadian communities in Vancouver. - [Hastings Park](https://henrytsang.ca/hastings-park/) - Hastings Park is a series of 11 colour photographs and an infrared projection installation depicting the four remaining buildings in Vancouver where... - [In Plain Sight: Hastings Park + Tansy Point](https://henrytsang.ca/in-plain-sight-hastings-park-tansy-point/) - In Plain Sight is an exhibition catalogue of two projects exhibited at the Surrey Art Gallery: Hastings Park (2021) and Tansy Point (2022). Hastings Park consists of a series of colour photographs and an infrared projection installation depicting the four remaining buildings in Vancouver where over 8000 Japanese Canadians were temporarily located and processed prior to being incarcerated at labour and internment - [RIOT FOOD HERE](https://henrytsang.ca/riot-food-here/) - RIOT FOOD HERE recalls the 1907 anti-Asian riots through the form of food offerings in 4 locations over 4 days in May and June 2018. - [Welcome to the Land of Light](https://henrytsang.ca/welcome-to-the-land-of-light/) - Welcome to the Land of Light employs English and Chinook Jargon (Chinuk Wawa), an intercultural pidgin used extensively along the West Coast during the 19th Century... - [Homage](https://henrytsang.ca/homage/) - A pair of framed business suits, flattened and pressed behind glass, is installed above a set of rosewood sideboard furniture. - [Chinese Pictures](https://henrytsang.ca/chinese-pictures/) - Chinese Pictures, 1987, is a series of drawings and paintings based on the Chinese character for my family name. - [Victory Square](https://henrytsang.ca/victory-square/) - VICTORY SQUARE, 1987, is a spatial analysis of the small urban park in downtown Vancouver adjacent to the OR Gallery where this installation was exhibited in 1987. - [Love Stories](https://henrytsang.ca/love-stories/) - Set of three photographic panels with sandblasted glass texts speak about the influence of race and racism in the construction of beauty and the mediation of desire. - [Tiananmen to Oka](https://henrytsang.ca/tiananmen-to-oka/) - Photographic projections and prints of two sites of contested space: Tiananmen Square in Beijing, China, and the Oka Golf Course in Quebec, Canada. - [Building A - Livestock Building](https://henrytsang.ca/building-a-livestock-building/) - Building A - Livestock Building is an infrared photograph of the 1929 Livestock Building located on the Pacific National Exhibition (PNE) fairgrounds in Vancouver. - [Eat Rice Yet?](https://henrytsang.ca/eat-rice-yet/) - Curated by Diyan Achjadi and Henry Tsang, Eat Rice Yet? focused on the theme of eating together as an act of community-building, as gifting and sharing, and as a way to build mutual understanding. - [The Unwelcome Dinner](https://henrytsang.ca/the-unwelcome-dinner/) - On February 24, 2017, The Unwelcome Dinner commemorated the 130th anniversary of Vancouver’s first anti-Chinese riot in Vancouver with guest speakers accompanied by a thematic food and drink menu. - [Lineage](https://henrytsang.ca/lineage/) - The photographs in this series employ a darkroom technique known as the Sabattier effect, or pseudo-solarization. - [Self Not Whole](https://henrytsang.ca/self-not-whole/) - SELF NOT WHOLE: Cultural Identity and Chinese-Canadian Artists in Vancouver, organized with Lorraine Chan. - [Racy Sexy](https://henrytsang.ca/racy-sexy/) - RACY SEXY: Race, Culture & Sexuality, 1993, was an ambitious and expansive project that explored the intersecting issues of race, culture, and sexuality. - [City at the End of Time](https://henrytsang.ca/city-at-the-end-of-time-hong-kong-1997/) - CITY AT THE END OF TIME: Hong Kong 1997, organized with Scott Toguri McFarlane. International exhibition, symposium, poetry readings, website... - [WHITE RIOT artist's book](https://henrytsang.ca/white-riot-artists-book/) - The artist’s book contains: • 13 equirectangular panoramic photographs from 360 Riot Walk, 28 x 14 inches each • White Riot: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver, signed by artist Henry Tsang (Arsenal Pulp Press: 192 pages, 112 images, softcover, 2023) - [Orange County](https://henrytsang.ca/orange-county/) - Orange County was shot in gated communities in Orange County, California, and Orange County, Beijing, where architects and interior designers from Orange County, CA, were hired by a Chinese developer... - [Tansy Point](https://henrytsang.ca/tansy-point/) - Tansy Point is the site on the south shore near the mouth of the Columbia River where the Anson Dart Treaties were signed between the Chinook peoples and the US government in 1851. - [The Maraya Project: Reflecting Urban Waterfronts: Vancouver | Dubai](https://henrytsang.ca/the-maraya-project-reflecting-urban-waterfronts-vancouver-dubai/) - 96 pages, 9” x 6” / 22.9 x 15.2cm Softcover with gatefolds, ISBN 9780968425817, Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, 2022. Contributions by Alice Ming Wai Jim, Robert Ferry and Elizabeth Monoian, and Kevin Hamilton Edited by Henry Tsang and Alice Ming Wai Jim Price: $30 (contact Henry to purchase) - [Kamloops Wawa](https://henrytsang.ca/kamloops-wawa/) - Site-specific installation in Kamloops Art Gallery and City Archives, Kamloops, BC, Canada. Banners, vinyl lettering, and electronic message boards were... - [BOOM! (Leipzig Kommt!)](https://henrytsang.ca/boom-leipzig-kommt/) - This site-specific installation looks at the political, economic and social shifts the city is undergoing. Promoting itself in the mid-90s as a boomtown... - [Olympus](https://henrytsang.ca/olympus/) - Olympus is an interactive new media work that selects video clips based on information gathered over the Internet. - [The Mount Pleasant Golf & Country Club](https://henrytsang.ca/the-mount-pleasant-golf-country-club/) - The Mount Pleasant Golf & Country Club, 2000-2001, was an engagement art project consisting of a 18-hole miniature golf course on 3 sites in central Vancouver... - [Orange County Dinner](https://henrytsang.ca/orange-county-dinner/) - In conjunction with the Orange County video installation at Centre A Gallery in Vancouver, I hosted an intimate curated dinner in the gallery on March 8, 2014. - [Nature Morte](https://henrytsang.ca/nature-morte/) - Homage to Piero Manzoni's "Fiato d'artista," with the twist of mixing the artist's breath with the air of the dead. "Nature Morte" means "still life," or literally, "nature dead." - [Napa North](https://henrytsang.ca/napa-north/) - Napa North, 2008, looks at the mobility of capital, design and taste by examining the meteoric growth of the wine and real estate industries in the interior of British Columbia. - [Pulling the Maraya: Sisyphean Cart](https://henrytsang.ca/pulling-the-maraya-sisyphean-cart/) - From 2014 to 2015, the Maraya: Sisyphean Cart conducted a site-specific participatory spatial investigation of the seawalls of Vancouver’s False Creek and... - [MEMORANDUM: Proposal for a Memorial for the Tiananmen Square Massacre, 1989](https://henrytsang.ca/memorandum/) - MEMORANDUM is a conceptual proposal for a garden memorial commemorating the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing on June 4, 1989. ## Pages - [Henry Tsang](https://henrytsang.ca/) - Henry Tsang is a visual and media artist whose work explores the spatial politics of history, language, community, food and cultural translation in relationship to place. - [CV](https://henrytsang.ca/c-v/) - Download Henry Tsang's CV Projects: Exhibitions, Public Art, Commissions, Events, Performances 2025 Parallax(e): Perspectives on the Canada–U.S. Border, The Reach Gallery Museum, Abbotsford, BC 2024 Hastings Park, Centre A Gallery with Powell Street Festival, Vancouver RIOT FOOD HERE 2024, with chefs Karima & Tarek Chellouf, Chinese Canadian Museum, Vancouver. 2023 RIOT FOOD HERE - [Contact](https://henrytsang.ca/contact-2/) - [Bio](https://henrytsang.ca/about/) - Henry Tsang is a visual and media artist based on the unceded territories of the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh peoples that is also known as Vancouver. His projects explore the spatial politics of history, language, community, food and cultural translation in relationship to place, taking the form of gallery exhibitions, pop-up street food offerings, 360 video - [Talks](https://henrytsang.ca/events/) - RIOT FOOD HERE Revival On September 7, 2023, the 116th anniversary of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver, Henry presented reflections on RIOT FOOD HERE at Massy Arts in Vancouver’s Chinatown, accompanied by Chef Kris Barnholden who recreated the original menu. White Riot: A Public Conversation about Powell Street and the Downtown Eastside Panel with - [Writings](https://henrytsang.ca/writings/) - The Precarity of Being Chinese in CanadaWHITE RIOT: The 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in VancouverWalking the Fine Line: 360 Riot WalkWuxia Makes Me NervousEither / Or, Either / OrNapa North: The Terroir! The Terroir!Art Calling Fool Scold: The Discursive Pedagogy of Roy KiyookaDetouring The Grand Tour: Venice 52, Kassel 12, Sharjah 8Improve Your (Community Public Art) - [List of Projects](https://henrytsang.ca/list-of-projects/) ## Categories - [Writing](https://henrytsang.ca/category/writing/) - [Curatorial](https://henrytsang.ca/category/curatorial/) - [Art](https://henrytsang.ca/category/art-projects/) - [Video](https://henrytsang.ca/category/art-projects/video/) - [Public Art](https://henrytsang.ca/category/art-projects/public-art/) - [New Media](https://henrytsang.ca/category/art-projects/new-media/) - [Photography](https://henrytsang.ca/category/art-projects/photography/) - [Events](https://henrytsang.ca/category/event/) - [Installation](https://henrytsang.ca/category/art-projects/installation/) - [Drawing](https://henrytsang.ca/category/art-projects/drawing/) - [Painting](https://henrytsang.ca/category/art-projects/painting/) - [Publications](https://henrytsang.ca/category/publications/) ## Tags - [projects](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/projects/) - [white riot](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/white-riot/) - [henry tsang](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/henry-tsang/) - [vancouver](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/vancouver/) - [arsenal pulp press](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/arsenal-pulp-press/) - [riot walk](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/riot-walk/) - [artist's book](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/artists-book/) - [limited edition](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/limited-edition/) - [equirectangular](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/equirectangular/) - [photographs](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/photographs/) - [panoramic](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/panoramic/) - [Maraya](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/maraya/) - [catalogue](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/catalogue/) - [dubai](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/dubai/) - [false creek](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/false-creek/) - [public art](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/public-art/) - [Alice Jim](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/alice-jim/) - [photography](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/photography/) - [Sisyphean cart](https://henrytsang.ca/tag/sisyphean-cart/)