In the Performance Studies International (PSi#24) conference, I presented a paper titled Performative Autoethnography as a Tactical Research Methodology in Activism about my recent research on the performative practices of Hong Kong artists in social movements in Hong Kong. I also took part in the PSi Future Advisory Board Summer School.
The panel was also joined by Joanna Mansbridge from City University of Hong Kong and Jonathan Geronimo from De La Salle University Manila. My paper was well received by the audience and aroused their interests in the methodology I developed for my practice-based and performative research.
During PSi#24, I took part in the PSi Future Advisory Board Summer School. The Summer School consisted of a series of field trip, meetings, workshops and artist talks. It offered a great opportunity to meet other emerging artists and young scholars from diverse cultures in the field of performance studies from Australia, Canada, Italy, Iran, Germany, Mexico, the Netherlands, New Zealand, the Philippines, Singapore, South Korea, UK and USA.
The Summer School offered me a valuable opportunity to meet graduate students and early career scholars and artists worldwide. Throughout our daily intensive meetings, ideas have been exchanged among different members of the group while we shared our thoughts about our own practices and the global world, as well as the inspirations we have gained in the PSi#24 conference. The network we have built has been expanding to support each other and facilitate further exchange in the future.
(my participation in PSi#24 was made possible with the support of Hong Kong Arts Development Council)
the panel and Futurist Summer School was part of Performance Studies International conference, PSi#24: Performance as Network: Arts, City, Culture, 3-6/7/2018, Daegu, South Korea