social practices, social engagement, etc
Sie läuft mit verbundenen Augen bei Demonstrationen in Hongkong mit: die Künstlerin und Aktivistin Wen Yau. In Leipzig zeigt sie derzeit ihre Installation „Wir sind das Volk!“. Im Interview spricht sie auch über ihre Verbindung zur Friedlichen Revolution in Leipzig.
Invited by HALLE 14, Leipzig, Germany, I participated in “The Ends of Freedom” exhibition which runs from 7/9 to 7/12/2019. I decided to use this as a platform for voices from Hong Kong in turmoil. A gigantic 10m x 5m “Lennon Wall” was created with 2,000 posters, plus some work of moving images I gathered from local artists and others on the Anti-Extradition protests in Hong Kong.
Read more “Wir sind das Volk! (homage to all peaceful revolutionaries) (exhibition)”
In the ICAS11, I convened a panel Our Commoning Practices in Turmoil: A Comparative Account of Hong Kong and Taiwan and presented a paper titled “Acts of Commoning: From Public Space to Public Sphere.”
Read more “The 11th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS11)”
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.
The notion of performativity has often been deployed in examining the social and discursive construction of identity through embodied (re)enactment (with Judith Butler’s theory of gender performativity a notable example). Focus on the performativity of our own practices allows us to scrutinise and anticipate the development of protest repertoires in artists’ cultural activism—in turn enabling us to reflect more critically upon the ‘constructedness’ of these repertoires. While cultural activism involves tactics of performing resistance and dissidence, it also involves a series of critical acts of transferring knowledge and cultural memories via ephemeral yet resilient embodied actions—even (or perhaps especially) in politically challenging times like these.
The full article was commissioned by Asia Art Archive and published on their website as part of their Shortlists. Shortlists offer thematic selections from AAA’s Collection, including overviews and annotations by invited contributors.
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.
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.
正所謂「香港地少人多」。有見及此，魂游深入西九靚地王，收割大批寸金尺土，並舉行一場別開生面的「西九靚地王拍賣展銷會」，推出囤積居奇旺中帶靜的珍貴地皮，更有大量跳樓清貨的搶手靚盤。有樓有高潮，一地難求！拍賣展銷會只限一日，大家定必爭先恐後，出手投取心頭好！
Land for Hong Kong: Our Home, Our Say?!? In the light of ‘land shortage’ in Hong Kong, wen yau has acquired pieces of land from the West Kowloon site which be previewed in the ‘WK Realty Expo & Auction.’ Special properties collected from the site will also be available too. Everything Must Go! Don’t miss this rare chance to bid on a piece of the most precious land in Hong Kong!
Read more “一滴兩點 之 西九靚地王（謹向所有和平革命者致敬） A Drop and Two Dots (Homage to all peaceful revolutionaries)”
