Join us to explore the world of Rae-Yen Song 宋瑞渊, an acclaimed artist flowing with the immigrant experience of flux and resilience, creativity, and craft.

In celebration of Song’s contribution to the Folkestone Triennial 2025, the artist will discuss living and working in Glasgow utilising sculpture, drawing, installation, video, sound, family collaboration, and performative actions in public. Song’s work has been shown at the Royal Scottish Academy, the Hunterian Art Gallery, Dundee Contemporary Arts, and many other national institutions.

Song’s recent multimedia and interdisciplinary work looks at how self-mythologizing can be used as a survival tactic and the family is a hybrid organism radically entwined with all other living things. Using these methods of speculation, experiment, and fantasy, Song’s hybrid and often fantastical works touch on issues of culture, race, gender, identity, ancestry, and what it means to belong or not.

As part of Fane Online’s British Art Legends series, celebrating visionary artists who challenge conventional narratives around British identity and history, Song will be talking with writer Hannah Hutchings-Georgiou about self-mythologising in artwork, how drawings and animations situate interspecies relations as a metaphor and mode for migrant experiences, and the immersive artistic environments that form a type of sanctuary against our current hostile one.

The event will initially be broadcast on 8 September at 6.30pm UK time. It will be available to view up to two weeks after the event has ended and can be accessed Worldwide. If you live in a time zone that does not suit the initial broadcast time you can watch it at any point after the initial showing for two weeks.

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