esea contemporary is pleased to present ‘Echoes of Elsewhere’, a special event with artist-filmmaker Luka Yuanyuan Yang. The programme features three of Yang’s short films – ‘Cantonese Tunes on Mott Street’, ‘Tales of Chinatown’, and ‘The Lady from Shanghai’ – alongside a talk on her latest book, ‘Dance in Herland’. Blending documentary, archival research and cinematic reimagining, Yang traces overlooked fragments of Chinese diasporic life across time and geography.

From the backstreets of New York’s Chinatown to the stages of 1940s Shanghai, the films uncover personal and collective histories long obscured by dominant narratives. Yang’s protagonists – performers, activists, and dreamers – speak through oral histories, photographs and embodied memory, revealing layered experiences of migration, displacement and cultural survival. Together, the works invite us to consider how stories are constructed – and who has the power to tell them.