Performing protests : performance as tactics of resistance in post-handover Hong Kong = 展演抗爭 : 九七後香港的示威戲碼
Media Information
This event contains 4 video clips. More videos available at: https://lingnan.hosted.panopto.com/Panopto/Pages/Sessions/List.aspx?folderID=f740b0d6-d09a-43cf-bca6-a8c7008ed8d7
Organizer
Department of Cultural Studies, Lingnan University
Document Type
Public Seminar
Date
4-18-2018
Time
4:30 p.m. -- 6:30 p.m.
Venue
MBG09, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
Description
Wen Yau is a cross-media artist, researcher, curator and writer whose work focuses on performance/live art and time-based media. She has showcased her works in Asia Pacific, Europe and Americas, often grappling with cultural differences and intimacy in public space. A recipient of the Fulbright Scholarship to visit the Northwestern University, USA in 2015-2016, Wen Yau has recently finished her PhD thesis on the performative practices in postcolonial Hong Kong art and activism. By using an auto-ethnographic research methodology as well as the lens of performance studies, she intends to investigate local artists’ involvement in social movement in the territory in relation to the building of identity and subjectivity in Hong Kong society. Her broader research interests include: social and public practices of art, performance art, Hong Kong art and culture, and research methodology.
Her talk, “Performing Protests” will explore the “repertoire” of performative protests (especially those developed by artists) in post-Handover Hong Kong, based on a few examples including her own actions.
Language
English
Recommended Citation
Wen, Y. (2018, April). Performing protests: Performance as tactics of resistance in post-handover Hong Kong [Video podcast]. Retrieved from http://commons.ln.edu.hk/videos/752
Additional Information
This talk is part of the Cultural Studies course "Introduction to Performance Studies” (CUS3359).