Marco Cher-Gibard is half-Chinese (but it’s more complicated than that) and lives in Melbourne on the lands of the Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung and Bunurong peoples.
We chat about:
- Learning and relearning Chinese culture
- From the circus to the slums, the Merchant Navy to Batik Bazaar
- His mum was a hippy escaping Footscray
- Not fitting in with your family
- Marco’s artist residency in Beijing
- When your reference point for a place (Singapore) doesn’t exist anymore
- Anything that happens in public in China you can watch
- Portraiture through sound
- Marco Polo
- The privilege of travelling on a western passport, being male but not white
- Taxi drivers are the only people who are welcome to ask “where are you from?”
- All of a sudden becoming attractive
- Not leaning on the POC box
- Art about identity is trendy and this could change
Mixed media: ‘Spiderboys’ by Ming Cher, Sax People by Marco Cher-Gibard
Hosted by: Maria Birch-Morunga and Kate Robinson
Guest: Marco Cher-Gibard
Music by: Green Twins
Edited by: Kate Robinson
Special thanks: Footscray Community Arts Centre, Maribyrnong City Council Community Grants Program, and the Victorian Government through Creative Victoria.
This podcast was recorded on the lands of the Boon Wurrung and Wurundjeri Woi Wurrung peoples of the eastern Kulin Nations.
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