Biography
Chun Yin Rainbow Chan (陳雋然) (also known as Chunyin) works across music, performance and installation. Born in Hong Kong and raised in Sydney, Rainbow is interested in mistranslations, diaspora and the effects of globalisation on modern Chinese society. Her research engages with the authentic and the copy, exploring sites of exchange and desire which complicate Western notions of originality and appropriate consumption. Central to Rainbow's work is the circulation of knock-off objects, sounds and images in global media. Her work positions the fake as a complex sign that shapes new myths, values and contemporary commodity production.
Tying together her works across installation and pop music is the relationship between nostalgia, migration and identity. She released her debut record Spacings (Silo Arts & Records) in 2016, which was feature album on FBi Radio, Radio Adelaide & RTRFM. She’s been nominated for numerous awards including FBi SMAC 2016 for Best Live Act, Record of the Year, and AIR 2017 Best Dance/Electronica Album. Her stunning single "Let Me" won SMAC Best Song of 2017.
Rainbow has performed extensively including live appearances at Sydney Opera House, Museum of Contemporary Art, Gallery of Modern Art, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Museum of Old and New Art, Iceland Airwaves and National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts. Her installations have been exhibited with Firstdraft Gallery, Liquid Architecture, 4A Centre for Contemporary Asian Art and Longli International New Media Arts Festival, China.
Rainbow is a passionate mentor in electronic music and has worked with MusicNSW, Information and Cultural Exchange Parramatta, Hack Sounds and several Bunga Barrabugu programs at Sydney Conservatorium where she teaches in Contemporary Music Studies.
A recent signing to GAGA Music as a composer, Rainbow created soundtracks for ABC web documentary, "The Glass Bedroom" directed by Kate Blackmore, Sydney Opera House’s podcast “It’s A Long Story”, and a live score commissioned by AGNSW as part of “Starburst”: Chinese Film Season (2018). She is one half of the techno duo, DIN, and also releases experimental music under the moniker Chunyin.
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