AGORA is pleased to present Sip from the Skull: Chapter I at Tipsy Shanghai 6, a Chinatown restaurant managed by Owen Yang. Chapter I is a group exhibition featuring works by Billy Chen, Jeewon Kim, Kaming Lee, Sidian Liu, Yiwei Lu, Eiko Nishida, Kai Oh, Tianran Qian, Albert Samreth, Junyi Shi, Qiaosen Yang, V Yeh, and Rachel Youn.

Owen Yang runs his Mott Street restaurant in an experimental fashion: a “currently chaotic” balance of work, life, and sleep. The ecosystem of hungry customers, local residents, curious tourists, art appreciators, and passersby that flow through his restaurant, located in the heart of Chinatown, will activate the artworks.

“I don’t have a grand plan. I am here to mingle with the community around Chinatown. I think running a small restaurant in Chinatown is an intensely authentic experience, or what some may call a ‘typical immigrant hustle.’ I find the Chinatown community fascinating as it still stands fiercely against the eventually unavoidable gentrification process. Unlike its more altered and modernized neighboring districts, it remains a fortress, a living cultural tapestry that I am privileged to be a part of. And I invite you all to come share this privilege.” - Owen Yang