Emily Phyo is a performance artist and founder of WOMYN NOW performance art collective. She is also a tailor and owns a small shop in a market in Yangon. She was a student at New Zero Art Space in the late 2000s, where she honed her interest in performance and installation. In recent years, she has combined her keen interest in feminism, political activism and the social fabric of society to create durational, documentary performance works over year-long periods. She currently works with Myanm/art and has exhibited previously at Art Stage Singapore, SA SA BASSAC in Phnom Penh and multiple group exhibitions in Yangon.
“Emily Phyo follows her 2015 #Being365 series with #Response365, a daily interpretative performance photographed and posted on her Instagram account which traces the trauma and reactions of living in Myanmar since the military coup on 1 February 2021. She will continue this project every day for the rest of the year.”
