In the Performance Studies International (PSi#24) conference, I presented a paper titled Art & Civil Society:
Performing Resilience in the face of Populism and Authoritarian regime.
Tag: presentation
conference/panel presentation by wen yau
Acts of Commoning: a HK-Thai Cultural Exchange Project
Acts of Commoning is a cultural exchange project curated by wen yau in 2019, in collaboration with Asiatopia Foundation. Three HK artists (Vangi Fong, wen yau, and Cally Yu) stay in a village in Nan, northern Thailand between 2 and 15 January 2019.
The 2-week residency was also joined by Thai artists Teetat Saewang, Natthakorn Surintham and Chumpon Apisuk, director of Asiatopia Foundation. During the 2-week residency, the artists hang out with the villagers in Baan Nam Krog Mai and learned how they shared resources and built their community in an intensive social network. The project offered the artists and the villagers a great opportunity to meet each other from different cultures and exchange ideas about our own practices in everyday life, contemporary art and social engagement.
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Performative Auto-ethnography: In Search of Critical Identities in Social Practices
Invited by the MAS Art & Society programme, I presented a talk titled Performing Auto-Ethnography: In Search of Critical Identities in Social Practices at the Zurich University of the Arts, Switzerland on 7 November 2018.
Archives of the Ephemeral. Thinking, Practicing, Interconnecting – A Debate on the Accessibility of Performance Art in Switzerland
Invited by the Performance Art Network CH (PANCH), I presented a performance-lecture titled Researching the Restiveness: This is NOT a Performance; This is NOT an Ethnography in the symposium Archives of the Ephemeral. Thinking, Practicing, Interconnecting – A Debate on the Accessibility of Performance Art in Switzerland.
不只是現實的一面鏡子──尋找當代的政治劇場 Not Just a Mirror. Looking for the Political Theatre of Today
Invited by the Taipei Arts Festival, I joined the Think Bar and a panel discussion following the lecture by Florian Malzacher.
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PSi#24: Performance as Network
In the Performance Studies International (PSi#24) conference, I presented a paper titled Performative Autoethnography as a Tactical Research Methodology in Activism about my recent research on the performative practices of Hong Kong artists in social movements in Hong Kong. I also took part in the PSi Future Advisory Board Summer School.
Performing Protests: Performance as Tactics of Resistance in Post-Handover Hong Kong
Invited by the Cultural Studies Department, I gave a talk as part of the “Introduction to Performance Studies” course.
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中大藝術2018座談會：展演 = 行為 x 藝術？
Invited by the Art of CUHK, I joined the panel discussion with Yim Sui Fong, sharing my performative practices of contemporary art.
Performing Crossover: Variations and New Alternatives in Hong Kong’s Cultural Studies
Invited by the Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University, I spoke at the ‘2018 Annual MCS Symposium – Performing Crossover: Variations and New Alternatives in Hong Kong’s Cultural Studies’, about how performance studies informs my practice as an artist/researcher.
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Dialogues on the Future of Engaged Art
I joined the panel with Cole Roskam, Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture, University of Hong Kong, and presented a paper on art in the post-Occupy spaces in Hong Kong.