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Hello, I’m hang li 李航, a researcher and curatorial practitioner based in London and Beijing. My pronoun is she/they/it.
My research interests include science and technology studies, posthumanist studies, anticolonial studies, queer and feminist studies, epistemic (in)justice, collective working, curatorial theory and practice, and autotheory.
I’m currently doing a practice-led PhD at the Royal College of Art.
(website last updated: March 2022)
education
2019 - 2023 (expected) PhD student at the School of Arts and Huminites, Royal College of Art
This research examines the curatorial theories and practices emerging from the interplay between contemporary art and network cultures and technologies. It proposes to the situating of the curatorial theories and practices in the interlocking of social, political, economic and technological forces in the network society. The research presents the questions of, what are the standpoints, tensions and consequences of those curatorial theories and practices; and what are their implications for the way we understand contemporary art and the network society for now and in the near future?
2017-2019 MA Contemporary Art Curation, Royal College of Art (Distinction) . Thesis: Inter(face)action: Rethinking web-based curation as mediation
2015-2016 Master of Architecture, Architectural Design, the Bartlett, University College London (Distinction in graduate design and thesis). Thesis: Folding and its continuity
2009-2014 Bachelor of Architecture, Tianjin University, China
practices and awards
2020. 10 _ forthcoming
no-longer-being-able-to-be-able, Skelf A project began from the impulsion of thinking about our unease in an over-saturate contemporary life. When the exceeding positivity and sensation have led us to exhaustion and nihilism, what are ways to respond to the seemingly endless pressure of production and achievement? How to discuss caring and resistance in an information-overload environment?
2020. 7 _ forthcoming
Sense-making for sharing sensibilities: Art, design and social change, within the programme In the Realm of the Senses in RCA Show2020 An event consists online studio visit and panel discussion as a part of the programme In the Realm of the Senses at RCA Show2020.
2020. 7 _ forthcoming
New Directions? Art Practice and the Covid Pandemic, Doctoral Training Programme, Royal College of Art Researchers across all disciplines in the RCA are invited to reflect upon the changin conditions of our working environment affected by Covid-19 pandemic and the implication of this for work we produce as well as the opportunities and challenges this might bring. The event will include formal presentation, screening, performance and Q&A.
Co-organise with Dr Catherine Ferguson and Xiaoyi Nie
2020. 4
Guest speaker in CORONAvideoS ep 10, curated by Albert Figurt.
2019. 10 - 12
Visiting mentor in Curating Contemporary Art, Royal College of Art
2019. 7-2019.9
Emotional Practices An online art project exploring how emotions shape our work, and how artists position the self emotionally in the process of art creations. Curated with four curators as Open Research Initiative, which draws on decolonial methods to explore how our world views translate.
Co-curated with
2019. 9
Re-staging For the Time Being, Video Vortex XII, Spazju Kreattiv, Valletta and the Institute of Network Cultures A curatorial work showing the documentation, website and writings of For the Time Being. The aim was to host discussions around the approaches and challenges to curating, documenting and re-staging art in the networked cultures.
Co-curated with
2019 - now
Private-tutoring undergraduate students in architecture theory and design
2019. 5
For the Time Being, The Photographers’ Gallery, London An experimental programme of photo-performance curated by six postgraduate students seeking to explore the shifting responsibilities of institutions in this networked age, as part of the MA Curating Contemporary Art Programme Graduate Projects at Royal College of Art, London.
Co-curated with
2018. 12
Speaker in the Making Cultural Space Symposium, Central Saint Martin and Royal College of Art, London
2018. 10
Art Fair Assistant of Magician Space in Frieze, London
2018. 6
Hyundai Blue Prize (Shortlisted from the Initial Selection, 6/15)
2017. 12
Speaker in the Value Conference, Central Saint Martin and Royal College of Art, London
2017. 3 - 5
Research Assistant, Today Art Museum, Beijing
2016. 11 - 2017.1
Architectural design exhibited in Meta Utopia - Between Process and Poetry Exhibition, Zaha Hadid Design Gallery, London
2015. 5 - 7
Event Coordinator and Deputy Director’s Assistant, Ullens Centre for Contemporary Art, Beijing
2014. 7 - 11
Exhibition Assistant, Beijing Centre of Arts, Beijing and Position Architecture, Shenzhen
2013 - 2016
Co-founder of Tianlurongchuang Media Association
Architectural publication, communication and events planning. Publications include New Concept: Urban Landscape (2013) and journal Urban, Architecture, Landscape.
publications:
Li, H., 2020. If There Still is a Point to Curating on Social Media, What Is It?, in: Lovink, G., Treske, A., Wilson, J. (Eds.), Video Vortex Reader III: Inside the YouTube Decade, INC Reader. Institute of Network Cultures, Amsterdam, pp. 245–357.
Li, H., 2019. The decoloniality is just too on point for online curation at this moment, for art project Emotional Practices.
李航, 2020. 戒断，应激，文化断层？从COVID-19期间的艺术机构网络实践谈起. 美术馆 2.
文章委任于中央美术学院美术馆 (CAFAM) 的“疫情后的美术馆“研讨写作计划，并收录于北京大学视觉与图像研究中心 ( Center for Visual Studies CVS)
Guest speech:
‘Curating on the web, from net.art to the present’, Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.
please email me if a comprehensive CV including more design and teaching experience is needed.
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