Linda Lai Chiu-han (黎肖嫻), also known as Linda Chiu-han Lai, is a Hong Kong-based academic, artist, curator and art historian working at the intersections of experimental video art, interactive media and cultural history. Lai is Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media at the
City University of Hong Kong
City University of Hong Kong (CityU) is a world-class public research university located in Kowloon Tong, Hong Kong. It was founded in 1984 as City Polytechnic of Hong Kong and became a fully accredited university in 1994. Currently, CityU is ...
. She is the founder and artistic director of the Writing Machine Collective and runs a self-funded art space called Floating Projects and works as an independent curator of moving image.
Lai's artworks are primarily experiments with various forms of video and installation, based on her research in experimental historiography. Themes of her artistic work include Hong Kong cultural identity and gender. Her works have been exhibited widely in Hong Kong and worldwide in cities including Shanghai, Torun, Paris, Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur, London, Taipei, Seoul, New York City and Montreal, and several times in International Competition at the
International Short Film Festival Oberhausen
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(2005, 2009, 2011).
Lai received her B.A. in English Language & Literature at the
Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK) is a public research university in Ma Liu Shui, Hong Kong, formally established in 1963 by a charter granted by the Legislative Council of Hong Kong. It is the territory's second-oldest university and ...
and pursued her M.A. (
Wheaton College, Illinois
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- communication & journalism) and Ph.D. (
New York University
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In 1832, th ...
- Cinema Studies) in the USA.
Selected publications
*2013
Film Locations:Hong Kong,''coedited with
Kimburley Wing-yee Choi (Intellect Books) :
*2008
"Attempting a history of (new) media arts for Hong Kong: archaeology, literacy and education for artists" for the Hong Kong Visual Arts Yearbook 2007 (2008):
*2007: "Whither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in 1990s Chinese Urban Cinema", anthologized i
''The Urban Generation: Chinese Cinema and Society at the Turn of the 21st Century'' ed. Zhang Zhen (Duke University Press), 205-37 :
*2007: (art catalogue
''Re-Fabrication: Choi Yan-chi, Choi Yan-chi's 30 Years, the paths for interdisciplinarity in art (1975-2005)'[Researched and edited fo]
Para/Site Art Space
s "Hongkong Artists in the 1980s" series
*2004: (art book
''Crypto-glyph: Dialogues in Many Tongues in the Hidden Crevices of an Open City''with Theresa Junko Mikuriya, a 288-page documentation of their 8 rounds of dialogues via photography and text :
*2001: "Film and Enigmatization: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Remembering," anthologized i
''At Full Speed: Hong Kong Cinema in a Borderless World'' ed. Esther C.M. Yau, (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 2001), 231-50 :
*2000: "HK Cinema in the 1930s: Docility, Social Hygiene, Pleasure-seeking & the Consolidation of the Film Industry," i
(an electronic refereed journal on film and media arts published in Australia), issue #11. Officially Upload on 1 November 2000.
Selected artworks
; Installations
* ''PUSH: the Quest for a Voice, In Search of a Body'' (「推」: 探索嗓音、搜尋身體), an interactive, digital installation in collaboration with Theresa Mikuriya, Official Selection for the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, November 20, 2003 to March 1, 2004.
* ''One Take (2 versions);'' a looping video (wall projection), a
"Social Club,"Para Site, Hong Kong, 20 Feb to 10 Mar 2002; and th
"Fourth State Of Water" an installation exhibition on water, CoCA (Center of Contemporary Art), Turen, Poland, 2 March to 29 April 2012.
* ''1906-1989-2012/ Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Shanghai-Anji'' (1906-1989-2012:廣州-香港-上海 -安吉)"
[Video documentation of the work part I, "Staging the Load"]
Vimeo link to artwork
/ref>[Video documentation of the work part II, "57m kilograms: why did I make '1906-1989-2012'?: https://vimeo.com/66545704] 2012, a mixed media installation (混合媒體裝置), commissioned for the themed exhibition, in theme section "Revisit" curated by Qiu Zhijie at the 9th 2012 Shanghai Biennale, Oct 2, 2012 to Mar 31, 2013.
* ''Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama'' (景框戲門), an automated multi-window projection using found images from Hong Kong Cantonese melodrama from the 1960s.[Official Selection of th]
Hong Kong Contemporary Art Award 2012
(exhibited 4 October 2013 to 5 January 2014); selected art work at the 16th Generative Art Conference, 9–12 December 2013, Milan. From digital catalogue: http://www.generativeart.com/ga2013xWEB/proceedings1/a-linda.pdf
; Video art
Lai's video work has been collected by the Asia Art Archive.
* ''Door Games Window Frames: Near Drama'' (景框戲門) (single-channel video version); 2012, 11m 30s. Screened at festivals in South Korea and the Netherlands.["Panorama" #4.]
* ''Voices Seen, Images Heard'' (看得見的聲音，聽得見的形象); 2009, 28m. Screened at thirteen festivals and art events around the world.[This work is also anthologized and viewable with commentary in ]
ASPECT
Chronicle of New Media Art.''
* ''Non-place, Other Space'' (隱城･懸浮半空); 2009, 3m 35s. Screened at seven festivals around the world. and 9 art spaces["This is Hong Kong," a traveling showcase curated b]
Alvaro Rodriguez Fominaya
for Para Site, Hong Kong:
* ''Shanghai Saga: Other Skies, Other Lands'' (上海歌：另尋天地); 2009, 32m. Entry in the International Competition at 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2009.[Videotheque documentation at Oberhausen]
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* ''Trespassing World Cities'' (搖擺過路人); 2005, 28m. Juror's selection for Women Make Waves Film Festival 2006.[Program: "The Vitality of Hybrid Cinema: http://www.wmw.com.tw/oldweb/older/2006/2006html/2006wmw_list.html ]
* ''Door Game'' (戲門); 2005, 26m. Screened at four festivals in Asia.
Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin Madrid 2005
External links
Profile at the School of Creative Media
Works on Vimeo
Writing Machine Collective
Notes & citations
Notes
Citations
"Homegrown Talent"
discussion. Chow Chun-fai Chow Chun Fai () (born 1980) is a Hong Kong contemporary artist specialized in visual art. He is a chairman oFotanian Artist Villagein Fo Tan, in Hong Kong and one of the few artists who are actively engaged in politics. In 2012, he ran unsuccessfu ...
, Linda Lai, Ho Sin-tung, Adrian Wong. Moderator Pauline J Yao. ''Art Basel Hong Kong 2013.'' Art Basel
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, Asia Society, Absolut Art Bureau. 19 May 2013. YouTube
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. Alphabet
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. Retrieved 2017-06-12.
* "The Document" discussio
''Unpacking Global''
series. Abbas Kiarostami
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, Linda Lai, Shooshie Sulaiman. Moderator Hammad Nasar. Asia Art Archive. 24 May 2013.
Presentation
Qiu Zhijie. Transcriptor Stephanie Hsu. Asia Art Archive in America, Columbia University
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. 19 April 2012.
* 《台灣與香港新媒體藝術的契機 I：知識主體、感知與實踐》 pportunities of new media art in Taiwan and Hong Kong: the subject of knowledge, perception, cognition and practice/ 採訪：貢幼穎／整理：貢幼穎，藝外+數位荒原, interview with Linda Lai, posted in Chinese o
No Man's Land
29 February 2012.
* ''ASPECT: the Chronicle of New Media Art'' volume 18 "Export China.
Commentary by Kimburley Choi
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