Global contemporary art, with an emphasis on Hong Kong and screen-based practices; Global Asias and its popular culture; Sinophone cinema; diaspora studies; (post-)coloniality in Asia
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Research Interests:
Global contemporary art, with an emphasis on Hong Kong and screen-based practices; Global Asias and its popular culture; Sinophone cinema; diaspora studies; (post-)coloniality in Asia
Office:
Porter D243
Mailing Address:
Porter Faculty Services
Selected Publications:
- "Towards minor futurism: Cyberpunk From the Margin" in Kongkee: Warring States Cyberpunk. San Francisco: Asian Art Museum, forthcoming.
- "Floating Drifting Mobile Dwelling: Mobility as Sensibility in Jolene Mok’s Art Practice” in Life is Elsewhere: Postcards from the Distant Land. Hong Kong: 1a space. Edited by On-yeung Lin. Hong Kong: 1a space, 2022.
- "Genealogies of the 'artgricultural commons" in Hong Kong." o-square, no. 8, Spring 2021.
- “Inventing Uselessness: on Japanese influventors’ revolt against work.” Hyperrhiz: New Media Cultures, no. 22, 2020. doi:10.20415/hyp/022.e01
- “Heterochronicity as écriture féminine: Problematising the Historical Traumas of Taiwan and Indonesia.” Letter, Callus, Post-War. Edited by Hsiang-wen Chen. Taipei: dmp editions, 2020.
- “Dancing with the Tool: Considering Technologies in ‘Playcourt’ and ‘Negotiated Differences.'" Shirley Tse: Stakeholders, Hong Kong in Venice. Edited by Christina Li. Hong Kong: M+, 2019.
- Farmers’ Horizon: Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial, Urban x Rural, Japan x Hong Kong Connect. Hong Kong: C. C. Wu Cultural and Education Foundation, 2018. (co-author)
Selected Presentations:
- "Imaging the Miaos: construction of ethnic difference in visual productions of the Qing empire", UC Riverside, Department of History of Art 11th Annual Graduate Conference, May 21, 2022.
Teaching Interests:
- Hong Kong art
- Asian film
- Global contemporary art
Honors and Awards:
2022, UCSC Graduate Dean's Research Travel Grant
2021, UCSC Regent's Fellowship
2019, 14th Hong Kong Art Development Awards - Award for Young Artist (Art Criticism)
2019, International Awards for Art Criticism (shortlist)
2019, Hong Kong Arts Development Council Travel Grant: Venice Biennale
2016, Hong Kong Arts Development Council Travel Grant: Gwangju Biennial
Education and Training:
MA, University College London, History of Art
BA, University College London, History