An original taple-top gaming experience, created and led by artist Yarli Allison and writer Yin Lo. Drawing from their respective research into the Chinese seafaring communities in the North West of the UK, the game offered multiple journeys shaped by choices and chances. The roleplay group game aimed to open up conversations that thread older Chinese diasporic histories with contemporary questions of Chineseness, migration, and community, along with struggles of survival and resilience in the face of racism and precarity. See what happened

To celebrate Eastern Margins’ 5th Birthday, Yarli joins Asia-Art-Activism to present PASAR 2.0 (Post-Asian School of Alternative Rites) at the Eternal Night Market with a booth that features queer rabbit god -temporary- tattooing (@yarlipokes). See what happened

A restorative progress prioritising East and South East Asian experience, drawing & sowing seeds with Asia-Art-Activism.
The workshop extend conversations from AAA’s publication of queering history, creating safe spaces, collective memories via sharing oral histories through the process of creative questioning, accessing memories, drawing, seed-growing and solidarity. Find out more

The critical dialogue brought together artists with Asia-Art-Activism focused on their experiences in decolonising artistic practices, creating safe earth spaces, contesting racial categories, and challenging stigmas and stereotypes through their creative artistic practices, including visual anthropology through virtual reality, drag king performances, and creating safe club spaces ...Read & Watch

Yarli talks about new commission work at exhibition Future Ages Will Wonder, curated by Annie J Kwan @ FACT Liverpool, presents an “alternative museum” of artworks that use science and technology to question our past and offer new ways of understanding who we are and where we belong.
The artworks on display bring together traditional mediums such as textiles, sculpture, and photography with virtual reality, computer algorithms and synthetic DNA to reimagine stories about our past, present and future. Through this wide range of materials and art-making, the exhibition refocuses where we place attention and what we value: reimagining stories about our past, present and future. Turning attention to alternative histories, the political and ethical issues found in archaeology, botany, genetics and the use of technology in our daily lives, visitors are invited to behold and ‘wonder’ at the advancement of science and technology.

Bagri Foundation series Navigating Change hosts Yarli Allison (artist), Aakash Odedra (dancer and choreographer), and Dr Imma Ramos (British Museum’s curator) for a multidisciplinary conversation on how they have embraced positive and meaningful change into their life and practice in a changing creative sector with a focus on spaces they have been exploring either digitally or physically in the past year, and how they address risk and scenarios out of their control.

Tracing through the motifs of land, soil and earth, these episodes explore how we develop an understanding of who we are and where we belong. The episode open up a conversation about how we create and share history by exploring other ways of learning such as oral histories, embodied knowledge and folk tales.
Curator Annie chats with artists Yarli Allison and Boedi Widjaja to ask what does the concept of memory mean when making artwork? What are the challenges artists face when systems and technology are used to tell personal stories? And if reconstructing history is important, why? Download Transcript

Introducing Yarli's new AR Public Art commission with Tai Kwun Contemporary.

Artists Yarli Allison x writer Yin Lo explores issue of diasporas identities and belongingness in their new work In Virtual Return You (can't) Dehaunt using virtual reality (VR) imagery that intertwines with ethnographic research, reconstructing the ‘homes’ of 4 queer Hong Kongers digitally. Hosted by Angel Leung (Videotage HK).
Talk 1 (Livestream)
Talk 2 (Re-recorded)