Rachel TonThat is an interdisciplinary artist and writer exploring climate change, technological futures, and collective memory through narrative structures and constructed space.
Her research and critical writing on narrative as a tool of power and misinformation is applied across her work to opposite effect, utilizing it for community building, perspective taking, and social justice. Her installations and social art projects produce physical and immaterial spaces through storytelling and shared experiences, similar to the urban design concept of placemaking.
She is co-founder of the publishing project, Oreades Press, curates the project space Airtight Garage, and volunteers as director of the North Shore AAPI Coalition. She was selected for the inaugural She Who Has No Master(s) writing mentorship through the Diasporic Vietnamese Artist Network and completed her MA Fine Art at Zurich University of the Arts. Her work has been supported by the city of Zurich, canton St. Gallen, New England Foundation For the Arts, Mass Cultural Council, Collective Futures Fund, Tin House Writing Workshop, Fondation Jan Michalski, and more. Her essays and art criticism have appeared in Diacritics, The Amp, and Boston Art Review, and she is the co-author of Die Alp an sich, a book of translations and retellings of Swiss folklore from Poets & Traitors Press.