Bill Chau

Digitised Diaspora, 2023

Mixed digital media, projection

This work is an intervention into the ongoing tensions experienced by the Chinese Australian (CA) community.

The project involves a process of public participation whereby audiences of the installation are invited to contribute their own objects to the work. By means of 3D scanning and digital augmentation, these objects would be featured in a traveling installation work positioned in areas of high-traffic, public spaces. The work as whole draws upon the key principle of cultural visibility to help build and inspire a more culturally diverse and respectful future.

Bill Chau is a multidisciplinary artist and designer specialising in exhibition design, installation and theatre set design. His works have often been lead by way of storytelling through the play and manipulation with physical spaces. Bill is currently undertaking studies in a Bachelor of Design (Experience & Graphics) and a Bachelor of Media (PR advertising) at the University of New South Wales. Through this process his have also been heavily informed by his studies into the diaspora community of Chinese Australians and the intersections between eastern and western cultures.

Bill’s past works includes his 2020 installation PLASTIC SLIPPERS as a part of the ARTSLAB residency by Shopfront Arts, set design for Organs! and Spider in my Soup, written by Nicole Pingon as well as Grenadine, directed by Emily Henderson for Sydney University Drama Society.