CURRENT
Professor in Contemporary Art and Director, Decolonising Arts Institute, University of the Arts London (UAL)
Visiting Lectures / Artist Talks Alfred University, NY; Amsterdam Art Weekend X ArtReview; BFI Southbank, London; Birkbeck College, University of London; Bluecoat, Liverpool; Cardiff Metropolitan University; Contemporary Arts Society; Concordia University, Montreal; Courtauld Institute, University of London; De La Warr Pavilion; Firstsite, Colchester; University of Lisbon; Goldsmiths College, University of London; HDK-Valand, University of Gothenburg; La Friche belle du mai / Triangle, Marseilles; Leeds City Art Gallery; Reed College, Portland, Oregon; Royal College of Art, London; Sotheby’s Institute of Art, London; Tate Modern & Tate Britain, London; UAL Central Saint Martins & Chelsea College of Arts; University of Westminster, London; Whitechapel Gallery, London; Winchester School of Art, UK
EDUCATION
2004 PhD Fine Art (Practice & Theory) with Aavaa (African & Asian Visual Artists Archive) School of Architecture & the Visual Arts, University of East London
1996 MA Feminism & the Visual Arts Department of Fine Art, University of Leeds (Distinction)
1994 BA Hons Fine Art Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds (First)
AWARDS / NOMINATIONS
2019 British Art Network Seminar Series Tate / Paul Mellon Centre
2018-2020 New Geographies East Contemporary Visual Arts Network / Arts Council England
2015-18 AHRC Research Grant Award: Black Artists & Modernism Co-Investigator with Sonia Boyce (Principal Investigator) and David Dibosa (Co-Investigator)
2018 Film London Jarman Award Nomination
2017 Film London Jarman Award Nomination
2016 Deviant Practice Research Grant Van Abbemuseum, NL
2015 Arts Council England Grants for the Arts Award Individual Award
2013 Film London Jarman Award Nomination
2011 Wellcome Trust, Large Arts Award Co-Applicant with Steven Bode (Principal Applicant)
2010 Wellcome Trust, Small Arts Award Co-Applicant with Steven Bode (Principal Applicant)
2005 AHRC Diasporas, Migrations and Identities Small Grants Scheme, Principal Investigator
2005 ACE Grants for the Arts Individual Award
FUNDED RESIDENCIES
2016-17 Deviant Practice Van Abbemuseum, NL
2005 Necessary Journeys Media Archive of Central England, Arts Council England
2005 Electric Greenhouse Artquest / B3 Media, London
COLLECTIONS
Arts Council Collection UK
Contemporary Chinese Art Collection University of Salford / CFCCA
Videotage Media Arts Collection Hong Kong
Oberhausen International Short Film Archive Oberhausen, Germany
Shanghai Duolun MoMA Film & Media Collection
Samsung Olympics Media Art Collection Olympic Museum, Lausanne
SELECTED SOLO PROJECTS
2021 seven x seven Wasps South Block and Briggait Project Spaces, curated by Mother Tongue for Glasgow International Festival of Visual Art
2019 A COVEN A GROVE A STAND Firstsite, UK, part of New Geographies, initiated by the East Contemporary Visual Arts Network, coordinated by Wysing Arts Centre, supported by Arts Council England
2016 RoCH Fans & Legends CFCCA 30th Anniversary Programme, Manchester, UK
2016 Trilogies LIVE screening with live sound collaborations, HOME, Manchester
2015 RoCH Fans & Legends QUAD, Derby, UK
2014 Faster, Higher MAI, Montreal, Quebec
2012 Altar Notes one of 9 micro-plays commissioned and produced between London, Beijing and Hong Kong, and presented at Yuen Long Theatre, Hong Kong
2012 Faster, Higher Film & Video Umbrella and BFI commission, The Gallery, Winchester Discovery Centre
2008 Faster, Higher Film & Video Umbrella and BFI Southbank commission, BFI Southbank Gallery, London
2007-08 DIY Ballroom / Live Cornerhouse / BBC Bigger Picture touring commission, BBC Big Screen/Cornerhouse, Manchester; enter_, Norwich; Lumen, Leeds; Site Gallery, Sheffield
2006 Golden (Lessons) exhibition & residency, Beaconsfield, London
2006 Golden exhibition, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2005 Necessary Journeys ACE artist residency, Media Archive of Central England, Arts Council England programme in partnership with BFI Black World
2005 Electric Greenhouse digital arts residency, Artquest / B3 Media, London
2000 FCHKUK exhibition, Stuff Gallery, London
2000 Lean To exhibition, East London Gallery, University of East London
1996-97 Un- (Retrospectre) exhibition, Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
SELECTED GROUP PROJECTS
2018 Common Third Copperfield Gallery, London, 13 Sept – 26 Oct
2018 Diaspora Pavilion Wolverhampton Art Gallery, UK, 10 Feb – 29 April
2018 Presence – A Window into Contemporary Chinese Art The Vaults, St George’s Hall, Liverpool, UK, 9 Feb – 2 June
2017 Diaspora Pavilion Palazzo Pisani Santa Marina, Venice, 13 May – 26 November
2017 Sonic Soundings Venice / www.echoes.xyz 1 Sept – 30 November
2015-16 1st Asia Biennial & 5th Guangzhou Triennial Guangdong Museum of Art, Guangzhou
2013 The Global Archive Hanmi Gallery, London
2012 Everything Flows De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill
2012 Blue Crystal Ball Samsung IOC Olympics Media Art Collection, screenings at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill & AND Festival, Holden Gallery, Manchester
2012 March 2012 SITE Santa Fe, New Mexico
2011 Fraternise – the Salon Beaconsfield, London
2010 How We Became Metadata University of Westminster Gallery, London
2010 Tables of Thought Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, Finland
2009 Hit the Ground Hatton Gallery, Newcastle (Great North Run Cultural Programme)
2008 Artradio exhibition & online station, Cornerhouse, Manchester (featured soundwork)
2006 Cruel / Loving Bodies 2 exhibition, Hong Kong Arts Centre & Goethe Institute
2005 Private View exhibition, Shanghai Duolun MoMA
2005 Lightsilver exhibition, Beaconsfield Contemporary Art, London
2005 Reassurance exhibition, SPACE Triangle, London & Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2004 New Nasubi Gallery in ‘Osawa Tsuyoshi: Answer with Yes and No!’ exhibition, Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
2004 Cruel / Loving Bodies exhibition, Shanghai Duolun MoMA & 798 Factory, Beijing
2003 False Impressions exhibition, University of Essex Gallery, Colchester
2003 The Translator’s Notes exhibition, Café Gallery Projects, London
2001 Drawing the Central Space performance & exhibition, The Central Space, London
2001 New Releases: An International Survey of Recent Works On Video exhibition, Gallery 4A & Art Gallery New South Wales, Australia
2000 Shanghai Art Fair exhibition, Shanghai Mart, Shanghai, China
1999 Cities on the Move Hayward Gallery, London
1998 DEAL exhibition with Mayling To, 198 Gallery, London
1997 Numbersix exhibition with Anthony Key, Yeu-Lai Mo, Erika Tan, Mayling To
FESTIVALS / SCREENINGS
2018 FLOW Asia-Art-Activism, Raven Row, London, 4-6 October
2017 China Remixed Indiana University, Bloomington, 15 February – 10 March
2016-17 Both Sides Now III Videotage HK and videoclub UK, International Touring Programme
2016 Viennale – Vienna International Film Festival, Austria, 20 October – 2 November
2016 62nd Oberhausen International Short Film Festival Oberhausen, Germany, 5-10 May
2016 Videotage @ Art Basel Crowdfunding Lab Art Basel Hong Kong, 24-26 March
2009 Local Shorts Big Screen Waltham Forest, London
2008 Artists in the Archive Cornerhouse / Big Screen, Manchester
2006 Arcade screenings & events, Westbourne Studios, London
2006 Collective Rhythm Bigger Picture programme, Cornerhouse / Big Screen, Manchester
2002 No Sleep ‘Til Hammersmith: A Night of Video The Central Space, London
2002 Big Screen in Little China projections, Home GMI Screen, London
2000 Test Lab Anarchy projections, Arthrob & Fabric Live, Fabric, London
ARTIST BOOKS / MULTIPLES
2021 seven x seven 7-part multiple, limited edition of 200, full colour, various dimensions / unlimited digital edition, PDF download, design by Land of Plenty, essays by Alexandra Kokoli and Mother Tongue
2019 Score for Voices 7-panel print on card, limited edition of 1,000, 238x420mm, design by Land of Plenty
2017 RoCH Fans & Legends (QUAD / CFCCA) e-publication, design by Land of Plenty, essays by Alice Ming-Wai Jim, Jean Hui Ng, Marquard Smith, Henry Tsang, Luke White, Andrew Willis, Wayne Wong
2015 RoCH Fan (SPSL) 90-panel concertina, full colour, edition of 200, design by March
2009 Faster, Higher Nina Ernst & susan pui san lok eds. (London: Film & Video Umbrella) 116pp, 243x169mm, full colour, hardback slip-case, essays by Chris Berry & Adrian Rifkin ISBN 9781904270294
2007 Golden (Notes) artist book (London: SPSL) 196pp, 180x180mm, full colour, design by CHK Design, with contributions by Sonia Boyce, Mimi Lok, Joanne Morra, Irit Rogoff, Naomi Siderfin, Rob Stone, Gilane Tawadros ISBN 9780955184925
2005 NEWS artist book (London: SPSL)
VISUAL/TEXT ESSAYS / ARTIST PAGES
2019 ‘We Will Be’ in Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles eds.The Place Is Here (Sternberg Press)
2018 ‘Testing, Contesting’ visual/text essay in Ashley Thorpe and Diana Yeh eds. Contesting British Chinese Culture (Palgrave Macmillan)
2016 ‘SPSL / A – Y (Revisited)’ in Franziska Koch & Rui Oliveira Lopes eds, special issue of Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, v3, n.1-2, pp.169-182
2016 ‘D/Eluding Definition’ in 30 Years of Centre for Chinese Contemporary Art (CFCCA/Cornerhouse)
2016 Golden featured in Margaret Garlake ed. Beaconsfield: Chronic Epoch (London: Black Dog Publishing) 144pp, ISBN13 9781908966575
2015 ‘Six Women – Art Vapours‘ visual/text essay with JC Kristensen, in Elisa Adami & Alessandra Ferrini eds, ‘In the Presence of Absence’, themed issue, Mnemoscape Magazine, http://www.mnemoscape.org, n.2
2013 ‘RoCH Fans & Legends (Entries)’ visual essay in Juliette Kristensen & Marquard Smith eds. Archives, special issue of Journal of Visual Culture (London, CA, New Delhi: Sage), v12 n3
2012 ‘Making Ways’ visual essay in Raiford Guins, Juliette Kristensen & susan pui san lok eds. Ways of Seeing – 40th Anniversary Issue, Journal of Visual Culture, v11 n2
2012 ‘Faster, Higher’ visual essay in Hilary Powell & Isaac Marrero eds. The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State (London: Marshgate Press) 302pp, 76 colour images, 216x152mm, paperback ISBN 9780957294301
2011 NEWS featured in Paperweight (London: Polygraphia) v1 n2
2011 Faster, Higher featured in Elisabetta Fabrizi ed. The BFI Gallery Book (London: BFI) 298pp, ISBN 978870282826, pp.75-84
2009 21: Discussions with Artists of Chinese Descent Ying Kwok ed. (Manchester: Chinese Arts Centre) 156pp, 202x200mm, full colour ISBN 9780954544041
2005 ‘Artist’s Pages’ in Melanie Keen & Eileen Daly eds. Necessary Journeys (London: ACE)
2002 UA2 4 CD book compilation of soundworks, contributor (London: Underwood Audio)
ESSAYS / ARTICLES / EDITED PUBLICATIONS
2021 ‘Vong Phaophanit and Claire Oboussier: Three Decades, Four Moments’ in Dorothy Price & Sonia Boyce, eds. Remapping British Art: Three Moments of Modernism, special issue of Art History (forthcoming)
2020 ‘between the voice between the words between the work between us’ in Pamela Corey and Wenny Teo, eds. Voice as Form, special issue of Oxford Art Journal
2020 ‘Decolonising Art History’ questionnaire respondent, Catherine Grant & Dorothy Price eds, Art History (February issue)
2019 ‘Found and Lost – A Genealogy of Waste? Shimizu, Takahashi, Phaophanit/Oboussier’ in Nick Aikens, Sophie Orlando and SPSL eds. Conceptualism: Intersectional Readings, International Framings (Van Abbemuseum e-publication)
2019 Conceptualism: Intersectional Readings, International Framings contributor and co-editor with Nick Aikens and Sophie Orlando (Van Abbemuseum e-publication)
2019 ‘We Will Be’ in Nick Aikens and Elizabeth Robles eds. The Place Is Here (Van Abbemuseum and Sternberg Press)
2018 ‘Through the Gate / An(g)archivery’ video/essay in Nick Aikens ed. Deviant Practice (Van Abbemuseum e-publication)
2016 ‘SPSL / A–Y (revised)’ in Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, v.3, n.1&2, June, pp.169-182
2012 Ways of Seeing co-edited with Raiford Guins & Juliette Kristensen, special issue, Journal of Visual Culture (London, CA, New Delhi: Sage), v.11, n.2
2007 Hong Kong, and other Returns editor of special issue, Journal of Visual Culture, v6 n3
2006 ‘Translators’ Notes’ essay in Mieke Bal & Joanne Morra eds, Acts of Translation, special issue of Journal of Visual Culture, v6 n1
2006 ‘Anthony Key’ exhibition catalogue essay for Anthony Key (London: Unit 2 Gallery)
2005 ‘A – Y (Entries for an Inventionry of Dented ‘I’s)’ essay in David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom, Sonia Boyce eds., Shades of Black (London: inIVA, N. Carolina: Duke UP)
2005 ‘If You Were There’ exhibition catalogue essay for Mayling To: If You Were There (University of Hertfordshire: Margaret Harvey Gallery)
2005 ‘Outtakes’ essay in Dennis Atkinson & Paul Dash eds., Social and Critical Practices in Art Education (Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books)
2004 ‘Cruel / Loving Bodies’ essay in Sasha Welland, ed. Cruel / Loving Bodies exh. cat. (Shanghai: Duolun MoMA) re-printed in Yishu: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Arts, Fall issue
2003 ‘A – Y (Entries for an Inventionry of Dented ‘I’s)’ essay in Third Text, n62
2002 ‘Inglorious Food’ essay in Anthony Key exhibition catalogue (Bristol: Eddie Chambers)
2002 ‘Towards a Chinese British Isles, A Round Trip or 3333, Point 3 to Infinity: On Mileage and ‘British-Chinese’ art’ guest editor www.chinese-art.com (1998-2004) v5 n1
2002 ‘PIDGIN: interrupted transmission’ review in Third Text, n59
2001 ‘Trinh T. Minh-ha: Cinema Interval’ book review in Parallax, n19
2000 DEAL exhibition catalogue (London: BCWA)
2000 ‘Tailing TRACE/Y: The Liverpool Biennial of Contemporary Art’ review in Third Text, n49
1999 ‘Staging / Translating: Surname Viet Given Name Nam’ essay in Third Text, n46
1999 ‘Anthony Key’ essay in Empire & I exhibition catalogue (London: Terra Incognita)
PRESS / REVIEWS / ESSAYS
2020 ‘Beyond the Cinematic: Reinventing Chinese Martial Arts through New Media Art Practices’ Wayne Wong, Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, vol. 6, issue 2-3, pp.343-366
2019 ‘This exhibition near London is dedicated to the area’s persecuted witches’ Time Out, 29 March
2019 ‘Nine Minutes with artist susan pui san lok’ After Nyne, 26 March
2019 ‘Firstsite’s future is looking really Rosie’ Rebecca Creed, Gazette, 2 March
2019 ‘Exhibition of the Week’ in ‘What We Learned This Week’, Elephant Magazine, 1 March
2019 ‘susan pui san lok: A COVEN A GROVE A STAND’, art.daily.org, posted 28 February
2019 ‘susan pui san lok’ Wall Street International Magazine. 25 February
2019 ‘Now Showing #283: The week’s top exhibitions’ Jack Hutchinson, a-n, posted 25 February
2019 ‘The best things to watch, see and do this week in the UK’ Roisin Lanigan, i-D, 18 February
2019 ‘susan pui san lok: A COVEN A GROVE A STAND’ Twin Factory, 18 February
2018 ‘Artist to work with Firstsite on witch trial memorial’ Katherine Palmer, Gazette, 7 June
2018 ‘New Geographies artists chosen for East’s overlooked places‘ BBC News online, 31 May
2018 ‘Galleries and artists link up to showcase East Anglia landscape‘ Maev Kennedy, The Guardian, 31 May
2018 ‘Presence: A Window into Chinese Contemporary Art‘ Piers Masterson, ArtAsiaPacific, 9 April
2018 ‘Diaspora Pavilion Venice Moves to Wolverhampton for Restaging’ Artlyst, 5 February
2018 ‘The Diaspora Pavilion – a hit at last year’s Venice Biennale – is reborn in Wolverhampton’ Gareth Harris, The Art Newspaper, 5 February
2018 ‘(re)Reading Index Cards: The archivist as interpreter in susan pui san lok’s NEWS’ Sandra Camacho, 452F, n18, pp.130-143, January
2017 ‘The real star of the Venice Biennale? It isn’t the art‘ Anthony Horowitz, The Telegraph, 22 May
2017 ‘Black Presences at the Venice Biennale‘ M Neelika Jayawardane, Al Jazeera,
2017 ‘Venice Around Town: A stroll through the off-site shows’ Matthew Mclean, Frieze, 16 May
2017 ‘Venice Biennale 57 From An Artist’s Perspective Hedley Roberts Picks Twelve‘ Hedley Roberts, Artlyst, 15 May
2017 ‘Venice 2017 review/ 26 recommended pavilions, shows and individual works’ Binita Walia, a-n The Artists Information Company, 15 May
2017 ‘Venice 2017 review/ Britain at the Biennale – from Phyllida’s folly to the Diaspora Pavilion’ Moira Jeffrey, a-n The Artists Information Company, 12 May
2017 ‘Diaspora Pavilion at the Venice Biennale’ Caroline Douglas, Contemporary Art Society, 12 May
2017 ‘Rogue Pavilions Wrestle with Venice Biennale’s National Structure’ Hettie Judah, Artnet News, 9 May
2017 ‘New Nicholas Serota pavilion among this year’s Venice Biennale highlights’ Catherine Milner, Financial Times, 8 May
2017 ‘Hans Ulrich Obrist’s Venice‘ Hans Ulrich Obrist, Sotheby’s Blog, 3 May
2016 ‘Return of the Condor Heroes and Other Narratives‘ Beccy Kennedy, Third Text, Aug
2016 ‘RoCH Redux‘ Alice Ming-wai Jim, Yishu, no.75, July/Aug 2016
2016 ‘Wuxia Makes Me Nervous‘ Henry Tsang, Yishu, no.75, July/Aug 2016
2016 ‘ “An epic screening of a work based on epic source material” — The Big Interview: susan pui san lok’ Linda Pittwood, The Double Negative, June 2016
2016 ‘Here We Are: What does ‘Chinese’ mean as an artistic category in Britain today?‘ En Liang Khong, Frieze, issue 179, May
2016 ‘A Minor Juridical Disturbance in the Global Archive: susan pui san lok’s RoCH Fans‘ Marquard Smith, MaHKUscript. Journal of Fine Art Research, v1, n.1, 15 January http://doi.org/10.5334/mjfar.1
2015 ‘Guangzhou & Shenzhen flex their biennial muscles’ Lisa Movius, The Art Newspaper, 10 December
2015 ‘Now Showing #115: This week’s top exhibitions‘ a-n, 28 September
2015 ‘This week’s new exhibitions: Susan Pui San Lok, Prem Sahib, Anj Smith, Melanie Manchot, Marcus Coates, Ai Weiwei, Brass Art’ Guardian Guide 19 September
2015 ‘Five things in Derby you shouldn’t miss this weekend’ 18 September
2015 ‘Chinese mythology, the Condor Trilogy and martial arts explored in QUAD exhibition RoCH Fans and Legends’ 11 September
2015 ‘Interview with susan pui san lok‘ www.animateprojects.org
2014 ‘Arts visuels – Faster, Higher: le sport au service de l’art’ Milly Alexandra, Querelles, www.querelles.ca, posted 23 April
2012 ‘The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State’ Sukhdev Sandhu, The Guardian, 31 July
2012 ‘The Art of Dissent: Adventures in London’s Olympic State – review’ Sarah Birch, Hackney Citizen, 17 July
2012 ‘Everything Flows’ Skye Sherwin, The Guardian Guide, 30 June – 6 July
2009 ‘Can You Take Sport And Art Mix In Your Stride?’ David Whetstone, The Journal, 16 September
2008 ‘Top Five Galleries’ John Russell Taylor, The Times, 23 August
2008 ‘Double Vision, Five Rings’ James Kidd, South China Morning Post, Sunday 6 July
2008 ‘susan pui san lok: Faster, Higher’ Sajiid Rizvi, Eastern Art Report
2007 ‘Chisenhale Biennale’ a-n magazine, November
2006 ‘susan pui san lok: Journeys, Documenting, Indexing, Archives, and Practice-led Research’ conversation with Marquard Smith, Art Journal, Winter issue, v65 n4
2006 ‘Golden’ Adele Tan, Third Text, n82
2006 ‘Golden’ Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 3 – 9 June
2006 ‘susan pui san lok: Golden’ Catherine Moseley, a-n magazine, May & June issues
2005 ‘Reassurance’ Robert Clark, The Guardian Guide, 30 July – 5 August
2005 ‘Reassuringly Unsure’ Tim Birch, City Life, July
2005 ‘Take Another Look’ Lucie Davies, Metro (Manchester edition), 29 July
2005 ‘Reassurance’ Martin Herbert, Time Out, 9 – 16 March, n1803
2005 ‘Reassurance’ BBC London feature, 24 February
2004 ‘On Curating Cruel / Loving Bodies’ Sasha Su-ling Welland,Yishu, Winter issue
2004 ‘Cruel/Loving Bodies’ Xenia Tetmajer von Przerwa, Asian Art News, v14 n5
2003 ‘The Translator’s Notes’ Sara Harrison, Art Monthly n266
2002 ‘Elements of Drawing Blind’ Julian Stallabrass, www.chinese-art.com v5 n1
2002 ‘Contemporary Chinese Arts in the International Arena’ Anthony Leung, Ming Pao Monthly (HK) June issue
2000 ‘Ethnicities On The Move’ Diana Yeh, Critical Quarterly v42 n2
1999 ‘DEAL’ Mark Hooper, i-D July n199
BROADCAST MEDIA
2019 BBC News – Look East interview at Firstsite, 12 February
2018 Whoever Heard of a Black Artist? consultant researcher on BBC4 documentary, first aired 30 July
2018 Sadie Nine interview on New Geographies, BBC Essex, 12 June
2018 Front Row feature on Diaspora Pavilion, BBC Radio 4, 23 February
2017 Curator interview: Phoebe Roberts on the Diaspora Pavilion Art Fund, 25 October
2017 Venice Biennale: British New Voices BBC2 documentary on Diaspora Pavilion, 2 September
2017 Tim Marlow at the 57th Venice Biennale: Far Flung Pavilions Sotheby’s Youtube channel, 31 May
2017 BBC News Venice Biennale report including Diaspora Pavilion, 10 May
2012 The Weekend Strand interview on Lightness, BBC World Service, 15 July
2008 Newsnight interview on the Beijing Olympics, 8 August
2007 BBC Radio Manchester interview on DIY Ballroom/Live, 12 October
CONFERENCES & EVENTS
2019 Fast Forward: How do Women Work? Keynote, Tate Modern
2019 Archives and Embodiment Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
2018 Amsterdam Art Weekend x ArtReview Revising the Past, Reimagining the Future Conference keynote presentation with Sophie Orlando
2018 Tampered Emotions – Lust for Dust Symposium keynote, public programme accompanying the exhibition, Vos désirs sont les nôtres, Triangle France / La Friche la Belle du Mai / La Compagnie (keynote), 29 June-1 July
2018 Look Out AAH Annual Conference, speaker in the session. ‘Speaking out: Siting the Voice in Contemporary Asian Art’, Courtauld Institute of Art and Kings College, University of London, 5-7 April
2017 Conceptualism – Intersectional Readings, International Framings Conference, AHRC Black Artists and Modernism project in collaboration with Van Abbemuseum, NL (co-convenor and speaker), 7-9 December
2017 Trinh T Minh-ha Symposium, ICA London, 3 December
2017 Women in Collections Symposium, Contemporary Art Society/Sackler CPD Programme, Leeds City Art Gallery, 19 October
2017 Deviant Researching Symposium, part of Demodernising the Collection, Van Abbemuseum, NL, 21-23 September
2016 Now and Then, Here and There Conference, AHRC Black Artists and Modernism, Chelsea College of Art and Design, UAL / Clore auditorium, Tate Britain, 6-8 October
2016 Kung Fury: Contemporary Debates in Martial Arts Cinema Symposium, AHRC Martial Arts Studies Network, Birmingham City University, 1 April
2015 Martial Arts Studies Conference, with Luke White, Cardiff University, 10-12 June
2015 How to See the World Panel discussion & book launch, with Nicholas Mirzeoff, Jon Bird, Sonia Boyce, Nadja Milner-Larsen, ICA, London, 4 June
2015 (In)Direct Speech: ‘Chineseness’ in Contemporary Art Symposium, University of Lisbon, 16-19 March
2014 Thinking with Berger Conference, with Juliette Kristensen, Cardiff Metropolitan University, 4-5 September
2014 Mega Events & Culture: Arts & Artists Engagement in Events-based Regeneration, Resistance & Research Regional Studies Association, Research Seminar, Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park, London, 17 June
2014 Image – Movement – Story Conference, University of Roehampton, 14 June
2014 SPSL / A to Y Public Lecture, MAI (Montreal Arts Interculturels / University of Concordia, Montreal QC, 12 April
2013 Inter-Asian Connections IV Conference, in the strand ‘Contemporary Art and the Inter-Asian Imaginary’, Koç University, Istanbul. Co-organized and co-sponsored by the Hong Kong Institute of Humanities and the Social Sciences, University of Hong Kong, National University of Singapore (NUS), the Social Science Research Council (SSRC), Yale University, Göttingen University and Koç University, 2-5 October
2012 Everything Flows: On Balance Panel Discussion chaired by Quentin Cooper, with Morten Kringelbach, Nicky Clayton, Elsa Bradley and Dryden Goodwin. Featuring a dance performance by Subathra Subramaniam, De La Warr Pavilion roof terrace, 21 July
2012 Everything Flows: Artist Talk in conversation with Stephen Mumford and Heather Corcoran, De La Warr Pavilion, 15 July
2012 Incursions and Subversions: Art’s Response to London’s Olympic Dreams Panel Discussion, with Julian Walker, Alistair Siddons and John Wynne, Free Word Centre, London, 12 July
2011 Contesting ‘British Chinese’ Culture Conference, Speaker & Session Chair, University of Reading, UK, 24-25 September
2010 Making the Cut Artist Talk, part of Film and Video Umbrella’s Free to Air programme, Stratford Picturehouse, London, 26 October
2010 Visual Culture Studies Conference, Session Chair, University of Westminster, London, 27-29 May
2010 Beyond the Academy: Exhibition as Research Conference, Speaker, Tate Britain, London, 14 May
2010 Tables of Thought European Artist Research Network Seminar, Academy of Fine Arts, Helsinki, 27-29 April
2009 Something Old, Something New Conversation with Vicki Bennett, Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle, Great North Run Cultural Programme, 16 September
2009 The Spectre of China Symposium, University of Westminster, London, 23 June
2009 This is China Jiangsu Festival Talks Programme, Firstsite, Colchester, 26 February
2008 Location: the Museum, the Academy, and the Studio 34th AAH Annual Conference, Speaker in the session, ‘Archival Impulse: Location and No-Place’, Tate Britain, 2-4 April
2008 Matters of Perception: Articulating Hybridity Inaugural Gertz Distinguished Teaching Series, Guest Lecturer, Alfred University, New York, 28-29 January
2007 Urban Screens Conference, Panelist, Cornerhouse, Manchester, 11-14 October
2007 Summit: Non-aligned Initiatives in Education Culture Conference, Panelist, Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin
2006 Encounter, Curiosity and Method: The Making of Practice Conference, Speaker, Tate Britain, London, 27 October
2005 Necessary Journeys Conference, Speaker, Tate Modern, London, 11-12 November
2005 trAIN (Transnational Art, Identity, Nation) Research Seminar, Guest Speaker, University of the Arts, London
2004 On Being A Critic Discussion, Panelist, Whitechapel Art Gallery, London
2004 Place: Aesthetics, Politics, Poetics Conference, Speaker, Institute of Romance Studies, University of London
2004 A Free State Conference, Panelist, British Museum/Arts Council England, London
2003 Artist as Researcher Symposium, Speaker, Goldsmiths College, London
2003 CAA (College Art Association) 91st Annual Conference Speaker in the session, ‘Multiculturalism and Art in the Colonial/Postcolonial Age’, New York
2002 BCAA (British Chinese Artists Association) Artists’ Corner Artist’s Talk, The Photographers’ Gallery, London
2002 Contemporary Chinese Art in the International Arena Conference, Session Chair and Speaker, British Museum, London
2002 PIDGIN: interrupted transmission Gallery Talk, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
2001 Shades of Black: Assembling the Eighties Conference, Speaker, Duke University, North Carolina
2000 A Dirty Space? Panelist, Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts), London
1999 Shades of Black: Assembling the Eighties Forum, University of East London
1999 Matrix 4 Conference, Speaker, Central St. Martin’s School of Art, London
1999 Empire & I Discussion, Panelist, Pitshanger Manor & Gallery, London
1998 Vindaloo & Chips Dinner/Discussion, Diner/Panelist, Iniva, London
1998 A New Vocabulary for Chinese Arts? Seminar, Speaker, The Place, London
1998 DEAL Discussion, Panel Organiser & Artist’s Talks, 198 Gallery, London
1998 Identities 24th AAH Annual Conference, Speaker in the session, ‘Questioning the Paradigm of Race Identity’, University of Plymouth, Exeter
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