From 24 July to 8 August 2017, I took up residency at the Asiatopia Foundation in Nan province, Thailand.
Tag: presentation
conference/panel presentation by wen yau
The 10th International Convention of Asia Scholars (ICAS10)
In the ICAS10, I presented a paper titled ‘From Improvisation to Transformation: Collective Connectivity in Hong Kong’s Umbrella Movement.’
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PSi#23: Performance to the City: Hong Kong at the Overflow
In the Performance Studies International (PSi#23) annual conference, I convened the panel Performance to the City: Hong Kong at the Overflow and presented a paper ‘In the Name of Resistance: Over-performance and/or Slactivism?’
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A Venture into the crossings of the arts and civil society
– public lecture by Clara Cheung and wen yau
31 March 2017, 7pm
Connecting Space Hong Kong
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Does Political Art Matter?
In the panel, I discussed about my reflections upon what art can do to foster a stronger civil society in Hong Kong.
藝術、地方營造和抗逆城市 國際論壇 International Conference: Art, Place-making and Resilient Cities
Beyond Purity – Toward the Politics of Cultural Translation 2016
Invited by Zürcher Hochschule Der Künste (ZhdK) and Taipei National University of the Arts (TNUA), I presented a paper ‘More than a Fetish; More than Cemeteries: Documenting and Archiving Activism’ in the conference in Taipei.
應蘇黎世藝術大學及國立臺北藝術大學之邀，在研討會上主講「存庫作為抗爭攻略」。
Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Annual Conference 2016
在亞洲表演學會2016年會上發表論文《自我民族誌：香港社運中以諷刺模仿展演作為省思連結的抗議攻略》。
I presented a paper ‘Parody as Tactical Protest in Hong Kong’s Activism: An Auto-Ethnographic Account of Performative Critical Engagement’ at the Association for Asian Performance (AAP) Annual Conference 2016, Chicago, USA, 10-11 August 2016.
Designing Experience: ‘The Ballerina on the Elephant’
At the conference, I presented a paper titled ‘Performing Hong Kong’s Identity: From Civic Square to Occupy Movement – A Spatial Perspective on Social Activism’ which examines how new spatial experiences have been created in the Umbrella Movement and contributed to the building of public sphere in civil society and performativity of the people’s identity in the civil movements.
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