Works.

BREAD, BUTTER, TEA, SOUP: FIVE FLOWER TEA (五花茶)
2024
artLAB Gallery

Western University's artLAB Gallery, presented by The Creative Food Research Collaboratory. The exhibition, titled bread, butter, tea, soup: Five Flower Tea (五花茶), was a creative exploration where the audience was invited to participate in the making and sharing of the tea.

Through the preparation and sharing of the tea, we explored the historical roots and contemporary significance of Five Flower Tea (五花茶) through various senses—touch, smell, and taste—while reflecting on Chinese diasporic experiences.

WITH THE LAND: CLOUD 9 ECO-ART EXHIBITION
FROM LAND TO ART: A PUBLIC INTERVENTION WITH NATURAL DEBRIS. 2023
AGNES ETHERINGTON ART CENTRE

This installation is a participatory artistic exploration of microbial communication through mycelium "threads." These threads create vast underground networks in forests and plant communities, connecting individual plants through their roots. These mycorrhizal networks are not only critical for nutrient exchange, sustaining forest health, but also enable communication among plants. This formed the framework for my final piece, specifically talking about the importance of community and interconnectedness of all beings.

ELAINE CHAN-DOW'S SOLO EXHIBITION A BEE ENCOUNTER

2023
UNION GALLERY

When visual acuity is insufficient, intimacy through space, sounds, and feelings offers a form of connection to another being that does not speak the language that we are normalized to. This experiential art exhibition invites viewers to engage in deep listening and felt-experience with the world of bees. The project is grounded in the traditional Chinese medicinal modality of meridian and philosophical frameworks of ecological perception and deep listening.

BUTTERFIELD PROJECT
2022

OCAD UNIVERSITY

An interdisciplinary collaboration between me and OCAD’s Department of Sustainability and Diversity through a grant from PollinateTo. I was invited to create an art spectacle that aligns to the idea of sustainability, diversity, and community by reimagining a run-down inner-city park space to promote biodiversity using native plants, honouring the indigenous history of the site, and celebrating the

current community. Using a variety of art engagement methodologies and technologies such as Augmented Reality, the objective is to encourage the public to

interact with the plant species within the park to generate a better understanding for the critical importance of the natural environment.