research by wen yau
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.
Invited by the Taipei Arts Festival, I joined the Think Bar and a panel discussion following the lecture by Florian Malzacher.
Read more “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”
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.
Invited by the Cultural Studies Department, I gave a talk as part of the “Introduction to Performance Studies” course.
Read more “Performing Protests: Performance as Tactics of Resistance in Post-Handover Hong Kong”
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.
Read more “Performing Crossover: Variations and New Alternatives in Hong Kong’s Cultural Studies”
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.
In the ICAS10, I presented a paper titled ‘From Improvisation to Transformation: Collective Connectivity in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement.’
Read more “The 10th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS10)”
This is a project I co-curated on the occasion of the 20th anniversary of Handover in Hong Kong.
In the Performance Studies International (PSi#23) annual conference, I convened the panel Performance to the City: Hong Kong at the Overflow and presented a paper ‘In the Name of Resistance: Over-performance and/or Slactivism?’
Read more “PSi#23: Performance to the City: Hong Kong at the Overflow”
– public lecture by Clara Cheung and wen yau
31 March 2017, 7pm
Connecting Space Hong Kong
Read more “A Venture into the crossings of the arts and civil society”
