Jo Fong

Jo is an artist and keen gardener of gardens and growing community? She lives in Wales and her artistic work evolves around the question, What is Community?

Recent projects

In 2019 and 2020 Jo worked on Ways of Being Together at Shoreditch Town Hall for Chinese Arts Now Festival. Neither Here Nor There, The Sun’s Come Out and To Tell You the Truth, are spoken and written word performances co-created with artist Sonia Hughes. The Rest of Our Lives was created and performed with artist and clown George Orange. Last November, Jo began a dance project called Marathon of Intimacies in collaboration with artist Anushiye Yarnell.

For more information about Jo go to www.jofong.com

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Special thank you to artist Sonia Hughes.


Credits:
Created by: Jo Fong 
Design & Digital Artist: Lisa Mattocks 
Artist advisor and friend: Sonia Hughes 
Conversationalists: Elina Akhmetova, Jeanne Rathbone Michelle Cook and Brad Welch
Welsh translations: Mair Jones

See new Tweets: @NHNThere and @JoFong 
Facebook: @JoFong and @NeitherHereNorThere

If you are interested in what artists get up to behind the scenes and would like to support Jo and Sonia you can donate here 

Commissioned by Battersea Arts Centre and supported by Arts Council England and Future Arts Centres, marking the National Lottery’s 25th birthday.

 

This is one of 40 new projects taking place in and around 40 arts centres as part of Here and Now, a national and local celebration of culture within communities.

 

www.here-and-now.org.uk | @HereandNow2020