STAINED PLEXIGLASS

Prisca’s stained plexiglass installations invite viewers to bathe in light and color. Her pieces are most comfortable in community spaces (especially be her home in NYC’s Chinatown) where they can facilitate play and healing. As an artist who lives in the center of targeted violence against Asian elders and femmes, she lives and works in community with folx who strive not for resilience but rest. They understand resilience to be a learned trait from injustice and would rather strive to create communities where we can tend to our softness, our peace. She hopes she can help nurture that softness with her work.

NEWSSTAND LANTERN

2021 started with a crushing loss to Chinatown. Friends and neighbors in Chinatown came together to celebrate the life of a beloved neighbor, Corky Lee by throwing a block party in his honor in the newsstand where he had his last exhibit. Commissioned by Think!Chinatown, “Newstand Lantern” honored the power of intergenerational community and was a thank you to Corky for his unwavering love for this neighborhood

CHINATOWN BLOCK PARTY 夏日歡聚

Chinatown Block Party is a monthly celebration of community care and creation. A collaboration between Think!Chinatown and 8OX SET, these parties feature local artists as well as guest DJs to create spaces for the whole family to dance in the streets to Canto and Mandopop from the 1940’s-00s!

LANDMARKS 地标式的听故事项目

Landmarks Storytelling project is an ongoing collection of memories from community members about their personal Chinatown landmarks, produced by T!C’s storytelling team lead, Rochelle Kwan. Explore Chinatown’s many pasts through these short audio stories at the very locations where personal histories unfurled. Artists Prisca Choe and Xiaoyin Xie bring the Landmarks storytelling project to life with onsite installations at 91 Bayard and 107 East Broadway.

LIGHT UP CHINATOWN

Hundreds of paper lanterns are glowing above Mott Street—between Canal and Bayard streets—casting a warm and inviting glow. Installed by the Light Up Chinatown Project, the new fixtures are intended to light up the street in these dark times, and also inspire New Yorkers and tourists to stop by and visit hurting restaurants and shops. Prisca led a team of neighborhood volunteers to inscribe and weatherproof and arrange these lanterns and they are still up over a year later!

SOUNDS NICE NYC POP UP

Sounds Nice NYC was a 5 week pop-up with over 60+ curated sound experiences designed to support the mental health of attendees. Prisca Installed REST and THE HEALER in the windows so their colorful reflections could fall on attendees as they healed.

MOON SQUARE: After the Mooncake 月匣：赏味中秋之后

As part of post-Mid-autumn festivities, Chinatown Arts Week held an exhibition featuring works created within mooncake tins. In the spirit of the treasure boxes of small things, memories, and preserver of wishes that mooncake tins become after the holidays, artists shared their own treasures.