2013-present
- Performing Identity: Performative Practices of Post-Colonial Hong Kong Art & Activism
PhD thesis, Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University
Using an auto-ethnographic methodology, my research will focus on how Hong Kong artists build their identities through their creative engagement in social activism in the post-colonial times.
2012
- Archiving Frog King’s collection
for Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
Working with the Hong Kong pioneering performance artist Kwok Mang-ho (aka Frog King) to digitalise and archive part of his documents of his early and later works and practices since the 1970s in Hong Kong and New York; recording his oral history according to the digitalized materials.
07/2010
- A Glimpse into Performance Art in Indonesia
as part of the Indonesia Visual Art Archive and Asia Art Archive’s Research Exchange programme
I visited 3 cities in Indonesia, Yogyakarta, Bandung and Jakarta, and conducted a small-scale research project on the performance art scene in Indonesia. Throughout the month of July, I identified 10 key performance artists or groups in the three cities for interviews which aimed to review their practices and the development of performance art in Indonesia. This research project aims to collect archival materials for further research in the field.
01-12/2007
- 10年回歸前後話 Talkover/Handover – Dialogues on Hong Kong Art 10 years after 1997
for Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
The research aims to collect materials of Hong Kong Art during the 1997 Handover and facilitate dialogues between artists who has been active then and now. A list of contemporary art events during 1997 has been constructed and video interviews have been conducted. An exhibition was held as a result of the artists’ dialogues.
06/2005-12/2006
- 香港行為藝術研究 Hong Kong Performance Art
for Asia Art Archive, Hong Kong
The first-ever chronology of Hong Kong performance art (1975-2005) was constructed. The research also consisted of peer-to-peer artists’ interviews, extensive documentation of performances, talks, seminars or related event; a broad range of related materials had been developed in the Asia Art Archive’s collection.
07/2004- 04/2006
- 香港跨媒界藝術研究 Inter-disciplinary Arts in Hong Kong
commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council
The research consisted of a survey and ethnographic studies of practitioners in the field, comparative case studies of related funding systems in Hong Kong, the UK and Australia and a practice-based research. Suggestions had been made for the strategic development and policy-making for inter-disciplinary arts in Hong Kong.
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