The significance of community is a running thread connecting many of the works in the exhibit. Yuki He’s Chinatown Basketball Club is a digital reimagining of Columbus Park during the CBC Mini-Market Day. Chinatown Basketball Club is a weekly gathering of artists of Asian descent who host pick-up games, tournaments, and various creative projects; thus transforming the basketball court into a place of belonging and shared artistry.

- Colleen Dalusong

May 31, 2025

On a storage cabinet outside the barbershop, an interactive artwork lets visitors play a dreamed-up board game — “Flushing Polyphonous” — designed by Mamahuhu (Yuki He and Qianfan Gu) as a kind of Queens-centric version of Monopoly. Players roll dice and gain or lose money as they advance, according to cards they draw. Some instructions are biting and sly, pointing to the challenges residents face: “Tangram Mall celebrates its grand opening with exciting promotions, but unfortunately, your small business is suffering losses,” one card says, indicating a setback. Other cards refer to police crackdowns on street vendors, M.T.A. delays, and anti-gentrification protests that slow your progress.

- Aruna D’Souza

June 21, 2023

Evoking the way in which local residents identify local places by familiar landmarks and experiences instead of official names, most of the artworks on display aren’t labeled. In place of a numbered address, the exhibition’s location is a set of descriptive directions using community markers. For Home-O-Stasis, Yuki He and Qianfan Gu from the collective Mamahuhu created “Flushing Polyphonous” (2023), a humorous reinterpretation of Flushing’s map as a Monopoly-like board game. With magnetic pieces and a pair of die, the game takes players through the Queens neighborhood focusing on landmarks and shared hyperlocal experiences.

- Maya Pontone

July 18, 2023

Flushing Polyphonous, an interactive Monopoly send-up designed by the collective Mamahuhu (Yuki He and Qianfan Gu), takes on the rampant real estate speculation that has beset the neighbourhood in recent years. Fortunes in the game are painstakingly gained and lost: $20 earned from a job at Hong Kong Supermarket or half of one’s savings decimated by a cyberscam.

- Kolleen Ku

September 20, 2023