Yue Hua, LightGrid, 2024, 10 ft x 10 ft Overhead projection Medium: Overhead projector, dry flower, glass, color filter, prism, soil, water, ink
Yue Hua, LightGrid, 2024, 10 ft x 10 ft Overhead projection Medium: Overhead projector, dry flower, glass, color filter, prism, soil, water, inkACTivate Resident 2026
Yue Hua/华越 (she/her) is a filmmaker and interdisciplinary artist who uses analog film, expanded cinema, and digital media to explore cross-cultural identity(Chinese-American), language, and female experience from a personal lens. Her work, often incorporating personal narratives, cultural background, dismantles traditional roles and empowers women through visual storytelling.
Her films and performances have been featured internationally at film festivals and galleries, including Revolution Per Minute Film Festivals, Mono No Aware Film Festival, Millennium Film Workshop Channel, Fisura International Festival of Experimental Film & Video, Brooklyn Film Festival, and AVIFF le festival du film d’artiste.
Yue holds a BFA from the China Academy of Art, majoring in film and television production, and an MFA in Film and Media Arts at Emerson College. Yue is a recipient of the UFVA Carole Fielding Grant, Emerging Artist Award from RPM Festival, New England Local Filmmaker Award, Emerson Enhancement Fund, and I-Park Residency, and has served as a teaching fellow at Emerson College and RISD.
2026
ACTivate Residency
Project Statement
I propose a multichannel 16mm film installation and live performance exploring layered meanings of “home” from both personal and Boston community perspectives. As a Chinese artist who arrived in the U.S. with two suitcases, I reflect on home as memory, flavor, and the connections I’ve built in new places. Using hand-made, found, and live-recorded film, I will create a sensory portrait inspired by haiku and visual poetry.
Personal objects will be arranged on the floor to trace a transition—from travel essentials to the familiar furniture and belongings that define a sense of home. Film strips will hang across the Cyclorama’s circular space, transforming it into a living cinematic reflection on home, life, and belonging. There will be a final showcase that collaborates with musicians on a live score, and invites local participants to draw or write on clear 16mm film, integrating their reflections into the final performance. Inspired by Stan VanDerBeek’s Movie-Drome, this participatory work reimagines cinema as a collective space for memory, identity, and shared experience.
Open Call
What Does “Home” Mean to You?
Resident Artist, Yue Hua, is creating a new multimedia film installation for the ACTivate Residency at BCA in January 2026. This new work explores the shifting, intimate, and sometimes fragile meaning of home, both physically and mentally, in the Cyclorama.
Yue invites members of the community to contribute short written reflections or photographs that express what “home” means to you. These contributions may be incorporated into the final installation, becoming part of a collective portrait of belonging, memory, and place.
What to Submit Responding to one or both of the following questions:
1. What does “home” mean to you?
2. What is the most essential element of your home, or something that makes it feel like home?
Your reflection can be literal, emotional, abstract, poetic, or personal. No right or wrong answer.
How Your Words Will Be Used:
Submitted texts may appear anonymously within the installation’s visual or sound components, contributing to a collective portrait of how people experience belonging, memory, and place.
Submission Details
Length: 1–2 text sentences or one picture
Deadline: Dec 25th, 2025
Submission: If you would like to be part of this installation, please email Yue at yvetteyhua@gmail.com
Optional Permissions Section: By submitting, you grant permission for your text to be included in the installation, exhibition materials, and related documentation. Your contribution may be edited lightly for clarity, while preserving your meaning and voice.