Join Chanel Matsunami Govreau for a presentation of her work at East Window as part of Performance Art Week, with guest Teague McDaniel.
Chanel Matsunami Govreau (they/she) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator based in Brooklyn, NY. They have exhibited at the Pao Arts Center, Boston, MA; Wing Luke Museum of the Asian Pacific American Experience, Seattle, WA; FiveMyles, Brooklyn, NY; SOMArts Cultural Center, San Francisco, CA; Chashama, New York, NY; FLXST Gallery, Chicago, IL; and Holding House, Detroit, MI. As an educator, Matsunami Govreau has over a decade of experience teaching photography and digital storytelling to young people. They’ve worked with arts organizations such as the Black School, YouthCan Seattle, The House of Ninja, and No Longer Empty. They are also the co-founder of Unblended, a workshop series on intersectional solidarity in Black and Asian friendships. In 2022 they were an inaugural recipient of the Bandung Residency for Black and Asian Solidarity and has since served as a mentor for this program. As a lecturer and facilitator, they’ve presented workshops on interracial solidarity, queer Asian diasporic experience, and folkloric fantasy. They have given artist talks and workshops at universities and colleges including Duke University, Durham NC; Harvard Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, MA; Courtauld Institute of Art, London, UK; Parsons School of Design, New York, NY; and College for Creative Studies, Detroit, MI. Their work has appeared in publications such as Milk Papers, The Observer, Bitch Magazine and Juxtapoz. Matsunami Govreau received their BFA from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2011 where they studied performance, printmaking and Asian American Studies.
https://www.chanelmatsunami.art/
Teague McDaniel (they/them) is the founder of CII, a practicing artist, and professor at a local university in Denver, Colorado.
“In my work, I provide space to collectively envision a post-gender binary society through artwork. As a whole, my practice sits at the intersection of social practice, installation, printmaking, and sculpture. I am a genderfulid trans person and my art allows me to cathartically deconstruct social gender dysphoria. I invite you to engage in a curious dialogue and somatic reconing around the potential for freedom past the binary along with me.”
—Teague McDaniel
Image courtesy Chanel Matsunami Govreau