The Fisherman Myth (2015)
Mixed media animations for a storytelling show with orbé orbé at Seattle Town Hall. The theme of environmental degradation was told through a love story between a fisherman and his fish and their interconnected futures. missTANGQ was the animator, co-writer, and did live visual manipulation for the show.
missTANGQ was born in Chongqing, China and immigrated to the U.S. when she was 4 years old. She describes her experience growing up bi-lingual, cross-cultural and queer as a process of diasporic alchemy: navigating plural realities and becoming a multidimensional being. Before working as a full-time artist, she worked as an educator and community activist. Her cultural work led her to study Chinese metaphysics and philosophy as instruments for healing and self-development. She has made it a mission to utilize these ancient technologies to explore the intersections of nature, the human spirit and mysticism. She facilitates art-making workshops that use divination to explore archetypes, identity and mythology. These themes also reflect the queer and immigrant experience as it seeks to transform what has been inherited by society and culture into a creative undertaking of self-creation. Through her artwork, she facilitates the passageway through the inner and outer worlds to birth new narratives of being.
As a full-time artist working professionally since 2014, her work has been featured in numerous galleries and performance spaces in Seattle, Los Angeles, New York, the Bay Area, Hawaii, Mexico and China. She has been the recipient of awards granted by Artist Trust, 4Culture and the Seattle Office of Arts and Culture. She has completed residencies with the SOMArts Cultural Center, Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History and Xucun International Art Commune in China. Her most notable recent performances have been at the Fort Mason Center for the Arts, Asian Art Museum and SFMOMA. She has also recently completed her first public art installation - a two-story tall steel kinetic sculpture that is permanently installed in the International District of Seattle.