Community Workshop Facilitated by Lan “Florence” Yee
Blackout Poetry
Saturday October 14, 2023 at 2 - 4 PM
Textile Museum of Canada
We invite youth 8-22 years old to join artist Lan “Florence” Yee in a workshop using blackout poetry, with the Museum’s exhibition labels as the subject matter. Blackout poetry uses existing text as a way to find new meaning through striking out words. By redacting, participants will get to refuse, emphasize, and transform text. This technique is similar to collage, and was used in Surreal art and Dada art movements. This type of poetry invites participants to question the information that is in front of them as a way to explore the ideas expressed in the original text and to reinterpret the words through creativity and self-expression.
From the Workshop
About the Facilitator: Lan “Florence” Yee
Lan “Florence” Yee is a visual artist and serial collaborator based in Tkaronto/Toronto and Tiohtià:ke/Mooniyang/Montreal. They collect text in underappreciated places and ferment it until it is too suspicious to ignore. Lan’s work has been exhibited at the Darling Foundry (2022), the Toronto Museum of Contemporary Art (2021), the Art Gallery of Ontario (2020), the Textile Museum of Canada (2020), and the Gardiner Museum (2019), among others. Along with Arezu Salamzadeh, they co-founded the Chinatown Biennial in 2020. They obtained a BFA from Concordia University and an MFA from OCAD U.
*Headshot credit goes to Ananna Rafa & Jenn Qu
*Headshot credit goes to Ananna Rafa & Jenn Qu
EXPLORE LAN’S WORK IN THE EXHIBITION ‘MENDING THE MUSEUM’