Department of Fine Arts,
CUHK

Assistant Professor

LI Yu-Chieh

B.A. (Eberhard-Karls-Universität Tübingen); M.A. & PhD. (Ruprecht-Karls-Universität Heidelberg)

 

Dr LI holds a PhD in East Asian Art History and an MA in European Art History from Heidelberg University, Germany. Prior to joining the Chinese University of Hong Kong, she taught art history and curating at Lingnan University, Hong Kong. She was the inaugural Judith Neilson Postdoctoral Fellow in Contemporary Art at UNSW Art and Design, Sydney (2018-2020), and has held research positions at the Tate Research Centre: Asia, London (2017-2018) and the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2013-2015).
 
Her research engages with aesthetics of performance art in Asia, art historiography emerging from decolonial struggles, and media art histories. Her forthcoming monograph Approaching Autonomy examines the issues of autonomy and affect in post-socialist China. Currently, she is working on a book project examining live art in Asia and Europe since the 1990s. She has served as co-editor of Xu Bing: Beyond the Book from the Sky (with Sarah E. Fraser, Springer, 2020) and Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles (with Midori Yamamura, Routledge, 2021).

 

* Photo by Chen Etang

MAJOR PUBLICATIONS

  1. Approaching Autonomy: Post-socialist Conceptualism in Chinese Art, forthcoming, 2024.
  2. “Gender and Performativity in Xing Danwen’s East Village,” Third Text 170 (May 2021): 389–410.
  3. “Rethinking/Relinking Colonial Ruptures: On Recent Works by Musquiqui Chihying and Hao Jingban,” Australian and New Zealand Journal of Art Issue1 (September 2021): 94–114.
  4. “Behind the Shutter: Disappearance and the Postcolonial Body in Early Sinophone Media Art,” in World Art 11: 2 (June 2021): 177–200.
  5. “Survival Tactics within Cold War Ideologies: Post-Mao Artists on the Tides of Globalization,” in Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles: Art in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2021): 175–195.
  6. (co-edited with Midori Yamamura) Visual Representations of the Cold War and Postcolonial Struggles: Art in East and Southeast Asia (Routledge, 2021).
  7. “Translating Happenings: Frog King Kwok’s Abject Play,” Art in Translation, Volume 11, 4 (2020): 417–440.
  8. “Two-Dimensional Installation: The Case of Xu Bing, Gu Wenda, and Yang Jiechang”, in Sarah E. Fraser and Yu-Chieh Li eds., Xu Bing: Beyond the Book from the Sky, Heidelberg: Springer, 2020.
  9. (co-edited with Sarah E. Fraser) Xu Bing: Beyond the Book from the Sky (Heidelberg: Springer 2020).
  10. (exhibition catalog) Affect Machine: Self-healing in the Post-capitalist Era, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, 2021.
  11. 從黑盒子到白盒子: 紐約現代美術館行為藝術的策展，收藏與空間規劃 [From Black Box to White Cube: Curating, Collecting, and Staging Performance Art at the Museum of Modern Art],” 現代美術 188 [Modern Art 188] (March 2018): 6–22.
  12. “He Yunchang: A Buddhist’s Approach to the Unspeakable,” Art Monthly Australasia (September 2019), 66–71.

INVITED TALKS

  1. “Debating Postcoloniality in Taiwanese Art,” School of Philosophical and Historical Inquiry, University of Sydney, 24 September 2020.
  2. “Stoppages, Marginalized Body, and Art’s Provincialism in Taiwan, 1983-1993” Tate Research Centre Conference, Tate Modern, 6 December 2018.
  3. Keynote speech “Southern Theory and Global Art History,” South as Turn, Tainan Art Museum, Taiwan, 25 June 2019.

CURATED EXHIBITIONS

  1. 10 January -3 February 2024 – curator, The Ordinary Matters, Leung Fong Oi Wan Art Gallery, Lingnan University
  2. September-December 2021 – co-curator with Gladys Lin, Affect Machine: Self-healing in the Post-capitalist Era, Taipei Fine Arts Museum.
  3. June-October 2019 – co-curator with Shih-yu Hsu, Female Avatar’s Futurist Statement, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, with a series of workshops on feminist writing.

RESEARCH PROJECTS and AWARDS

  1. Early Career Scheme (ECS) project, “Live Art 1993-2020: Beyond Black Box and White Cube, Between Asia and Europe,” Research Grants Council of Hong Kong (2022/23)
  2. 2022 Faculty Research Grant, Lingnan University, Hong Kong
  3. 2020 Faculty Research Grant, School of Art and Design, University of New South Wales, Sydney
  4. 2019 Faculty Research Grant, School of Art and Design, University of New South Wales, Sydney