photo by lexi welch
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ano•sartor
noun
ano, anonymous; sartor, tailor
1. a person, b.1994, Manchuria. She is an artist and community events facilitator. She works and lives in Pearl River Delta Area, China, New York and Santa Cruz. She worked in the Assembly Line of a Electronics Factory, the food service industry and for the most of time from 2019 to 2022, in a garment workshop. Her research and interventions is about labor that circled among production processes and economic geographies; and labor that collectively, spontaneously conducted as care, resistance and fantasy. She facilitates workshops and parties at Beijing, Shenyang, Philadelphia, New York, Santa Cruz, Mae Sot and other spaces.
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2. a collective way of living, a decentralized attempt of making art and practice activism, among one and other ghosts.
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Exhibitions
A4 Revolution: Transnational Solidarity for Human Rights in Europe, Dam Square, Amsterdam; Version FR, Paris; Mimosa House, London; Alexanderplatz, Berlin, on a bus; plac Defilad 1, 00-669 Warszawa, on a bus, 2023-2024
Aftermath, Worthless Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, 2023
Momento, Practice Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
AWAY FROM CENTER, Atelier Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, 2023
Implosion Projects, Penn Museum, Philadelphia, PA, 2022
Dictionary of a Victim of Rural Women Trafficking, Digital Archive, Xi'an, 2022
Weird Flux, Audian Art Centre, Vancouver, BC, 2019
Onsite! Performance Festival, Audian Art Centre, Vancouver, BC, 2019
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Research Experience
Research of Death of 1413 Migrant Worker, 2022
Qualitative 42 in-depth interviews with migrant workers, labor agency, left-behind seniors and social
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Lead in West Philadelphia, 2022
Collaborate with Nipun Kottage and Clara Secaira; research has been exhibited in the Penn Museum
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Research of Shein Manufacturing Factories in Guangzhou, China 2020-2022
Field work for two years, longitudinal in-depth interviews with 12 workers
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Research Vancouver Dunbar Neighborhood Real Estate and Immigrant Buyers, 2017-2019
longitudinal in-depth interviews with 30+ interviewees, including real estate agencies, immigrant buyers, construction workers, local activists, scholars, etc.
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Artist Talk
Weaving Voices, Fabricating Change, Social Practice Lab, Guangzhou, Online, 2024
Artist Series, Pattison High School, Vancouver, 2023
Education
Master of Fine Art, University of Pennsylvania, 2023
BASc, Environmental Studies, University of British Columbia, 2019
Skills
Documentary videography; Sound production; Oral history interviews; 2D&3D digital modeling and craft; Graphic design (adobe suite); Data analysis; Zine and poster making, Garment making, especially T shirts
Awards
Sachs Research Trip Award, University of Pennsylvania 2023
Weitzman Funding Award, University of Pennsylvania, honored as co-founder of Activism, Media, and Education Group, Philadelphia, 2022
Oakley Medal of Achievement, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, 2021
Dean's List with Distinction, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, 2019