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Evelyn Char

Contemporary art, with an emphasis on Hong Kong and Sino-Southeast Asia; aquatic media; theories of cultural identity; Sinophone cinema; diaspora studies; colonial histories in Asia; Global Asias and its popular culture
Research Interests: 

Contemporary art, with an emphasis on Hong Kong and Sino-Southeast Asia; aquatic media; theories of cultural identity; Sinophone cinema; diaspora studies; colonial histories in Asia; Global Asias and its popular culture

Office: 
Kresge Academic Building 1304
Mailing Address: 

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Selected Publications: 
  • "Cyberpunk From the Margins: Dragon's Delusion and Asian Futurism" 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.
  • "Unmooring Hong Kong: Archipelagic Imagination in Law Yuk-mui's Song of the Exile", Society for Hong Kong Studies Annual Conference, June 17, 2023. 
Teaching Interests: 
  • Hong Kong art
  • Asian contemporary art 
  • Global contemporary art
  • Transnational Chinese cinema
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 (short list)

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