EP 20 – East meets west

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

Guest: Marco Cher-Gibard

Edited by: Kate Robinson