Type: Text (Dutch)
Year: 2026
Een drie-delige tekst waarin Hooi-Ying op zoek gaat naar hun biologische opa en daarbij ook hun familie geschiedenis in Suriname.
Type: Visual
Material: Paper, Acrylic Ink, Masking Tape
Size: 3 x 1,5 m
Location: Foundation B.A.D.
Year: 2026
A collage in which Hooi-Ying researches how internalized whiteness and white supremacy has influenced three generations of Chinese immigrants in the Netherlands
Type: Performance
Dance
Spoken Word
Location: Theater Rotterdam
Year: 2025
Dresi Fu Yeye is a yearly event from Theater Rotterdam in which the shared colonial history is centered. For this edition me and Kalyan Artsen were asked to create a performance.
Type: Video
Poem
Performance
Location: Willem de Kooning
Year: 2023
An interdisciplinary work called into existence through discussions around ‘Dear Dad,’. The work brings forward and explores the Chinese diaspora identity of the dancers in the context of their heritage and the Netherlands.
Type: Poem
Performance
Location: Theater Rotterdam TR8
Year: 2023
Following on ‘Dear Dad,’, through storytelling Hooi-Ying explores the relationship with their grandfather, through the form of theatre.
Type: Poem
Performance
Location: Studio de Bakkerij
Year: 2023
A
performance in the form of a conversation between Hooi-Ying’s spoken words and Hooi-Ying’s dance. In it they explore their relationship to their father, from the perspective of being the child of an immigrant.
Type: Collages
Year: 2022
A series of 12 Collages of Chinatown as a questioning, material exploration and research of the interconnectivity of diaspora identities in Rotterdam.