The Oracles of Tài Shān: Hòutǔ consults with Língzhī Immortals [artist proof]

This product is part of Teichert Gallery's Pride show, courtesy of the artist.

Drew - Quon Duk Ping - 关徳平 (all pronouns) is a multidisciplinary maker with a background in communication design. Born of Chinese and British parents, this Queer first generation settler was raised in Mi'kma'ki (Punamu'kwati'jk – “at the tomcod place” / Dartmouth), the ancestral and unceded territory of the Mi'kmaq people, where they currently reside.

Artist Statement

I am dendrophile. I am biophile. I am Earth.

Growing up in rural-suburbia Nova Scotia I was encouraged to wonder, left to wander. My art practice is intimately connected to my relationship as an animal and a settler with the lands and ecosystems of a degraded postcolonial Miꞌkmaꞌki, the evolution and fluidity of my sexuality and expression as a Queer, gender non-conforming holobiont being, and my multiracial experience with a culture steeped in the ongoing legacy of white supremacy. I create as a direct response to the reductionist society in which I live – where control and domination persist, with brutal outcomes for both lands and beings. My work explores otherness, memory and impermanence, relational entanglement, liminality, community, dis/ability, regeneration cycles, eco-mythologies, and sensual Queer magic. In a collapsing world, (re)connection is more vital than ever before…