Henry Tsang’s projects employ video, photography, language, interactive media, food and convivial events to explore the spatial politics of history, language, community, food and cultural translation through global flows of people, culture and capital. Projects include: Tansy Point, a video installation of the site of the 1851 treaty signings by the Chinook peoples and the US government that were never ratified; 360 Riot Walk, a 360 video walking tour of the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots in Vancouver; RIOT FOOD HERE, a public offering of food reflecting on the 1907 Anti-Asian Riots; Maraya, in collaboration with Glen Lowry and M. Simon Levin, that investigates the reappearance of Vancouver’s False Creek in Dubai as the Dubai Marina; video installations Orange County, and Olympus, shot in California, Beijing, Torino and Vancouver, that explore overlapping urban and socio-political spaces; and Welcome to the Land of Light, a public artwork along Vancouver's seawall that underscores the 19th Century trade language Chinook Jargon and the English that replaced it.
