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ABOUT THE ARTISTS

As a cross-media artist, researcher, curator and writer, wen yau has been concentrating on performance/live art and social practices in the last few years.

Her works often grapple with cultural differences and intimacy in public spaces. Her work has been shown internationally: she won the Excellence Award in "Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art 2015" at the Macao Museum of Art. She is also actively engaged in various creative and arts educational projects and (co-) curated several research-based exhibition projects. She worked as a Researcher for Hong Kong and a Project Researcher at the Asia Art Archive (2005-2012). She obtained her PhD at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University, with her thesis titled Performing Identities: Performative Practices in post-Handover Hong Kong Art and Activism. In 2015-2016, she served as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Performance Studies Department at Northwestern University, USA. She frequently publishes in periodicals and journals in Hong Kong and around the world and presents in numerous international academic conferences and panels.

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萬語千言 WISH YOU WERE HERE

“On the white canvases covering the wooden structure of a cellar room (of approximately 10 square meters), I repeatedly wrote in Chinese ‘我要真普選’ (I want real universal suffrage) with willow charcoal made in China. This slogan has been used widely in Hong Kong during the Umbrella Movement and represents the people’s demand for freedom and democracy. I travelled to Venice when the major occupy site outside Central Government Offices was about to be cleared by police in Hong Kong. A programme of selected video documentaries of or work by artists in Hong Kong themed ‘Performing Civil Struggles: in-between conformity and resistance […]