Nationality Chinese | Movies Non-Place Other Space | |
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Education Chinese University of Hong Kong (BA), Wheaton College (MA), New York University (Ph.D.) Known for Video Art, Media Art, Contemporary Art, Cultural Studies, Cinema Studies, Microhistory Books Producing Heterotopia: Traces of the Cinema in the Thick Space of Governmentality, Localism and Citizenship in 1934 Hong Kong | ||
Lai Chiu-han Linda (黎肖嫻) (or Linda Chiu-han Lai, family name '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. She is the founder and artistic director of the Writing Machine Collective.
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Lai received her B.A. in English Language & Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and pursued her M.A. (Wheaton College, Illinois - communication & journalism) and Ph.D. (New York University - Cinema Studies) in the USA.
Lai's artworks are primarily experiments with various forms of video and installation, based on her research in experimental historiography. Her works have been exhibited widely in Hong Kong and worldwide in cities including Shanghai, Torun, Paris, Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur, London, Taipei, Soeul, New York City and Montreal, and several times in International Competition at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen (2005, 2009, 2011).
Selected publications
Selected artworks
Installations
Video art / experimental moving image / experimental documentary
Lai's works are collected at the Asia Art Archive:
Published works at film/video festivals:
Door Games Window Frames: Near Drama (景框戲門) (single-channel video version); 2012, 11m 30s / screened at 2 festivals, in South Korea and the Netherlands
Voices Seen, Images Heard (看得見的聲音，聽得見的形象); 2009, 28m / screened at 13 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 7 festivals and 9 art spaces around the world
Shanghai Saga: Other Skies, Other Lands (上海歌：另尋天地); 2009, 32m / in International Competition at 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2009
Trespassing World Cities (搖擺過路人); 2005, 28m / Juror's selection for Women Make Waves Film Festival 2006
Door Game (戲門); 2005, 26m / screened 4 festivals in Asia
I Told Them My Camera Was On (六度分離∶準備好未？); 2004/5, 24m / screened 3 festivals in Europe, including the 51st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2005 and the Rencontres Internationales Paris Berlin Madrid 2005
Citations
Citations at Asia Art Archive
Art Basel Hong Kong 2013: "Home Grown Talents" (Kick-off conversation)
"The Document," event at Art Basel Hong Kong curated by the Asia Art Archive: a dialogue between Abbas Kierostami, Linda Lai, Shooshie Sulaiman and Hammad Nasar
Presentation by curator Qiu Zhijie on the 9th Shanghai Biennale 2012, "Asia Art Archive in America"
《台灣與香港新媒體藝術的契機 I：知識主體、感知與實踐》[opportunities 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 on NO MAN'S LAND (荒原), 29 February 2012.
ASPECT (the Chronicle of New Media Art) volume 18 (fall, 2011), "Export China"; commentary by Kimburley Choi.