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Kai-Oi Jay Yung

Kai-Oi Jay Yung’s immersive video narratives, dialogical platforms and multi-sensory interventions reconstruct our psycho-political histories through dark humour and play, catalysing engagement and collaboration. Her residencies, live performances and large-scale installations include 'Interval; A Narrative Psychosis', Cornerhouse, 'Military Craft', Guangzhou Live, 'Sock Exchange', FACT, 'Happy Stacking' with Grizedale Arts, 'Everbloomwith Eyebeam', Image Wars, Abrons Arts Centre, NYC and 'Tarot De Marseille', La Friche La Belle De Mai, Marseille. Biennials include 'Nightcomers', Istanbul and collaborative/curatorial projects include 'Everbloom..' with Eyebeam and 'Following Bauhaus' with Artur Zmijewski. She is a critical writer, lecturer and devises workshops such as Contemporary Chinese Art and Globalisation. Awards include Paul Hamlyn Foundation Micro-commission, San Francisco-Hong Kong and Brazil/Belize ACE research and she is selected as Courvoisier Future 500 member. Talks include 'Living Between The Lines', Tate Liverpool. Collections include AAA and Vivienne Westwood.

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Reviews

Bedwyr Williams: Nimrod [28 October 2009]
Bedwyr Williams, 'Nimrod', Installation view. Mixed media, Dimensions variable, 2009. Courtesy: Ceri Hand Gallery [enlarge]
 

Down Liverpool's industrial Cotton Street, Bedwyr Williams gestures halfmockingly at the backwater location of Ceri Hand Gallery, whilst simultaneously harking back to Caernarfon, a small Welsh village, away from the noise, expense and the art  Read on…

Ceri Hand Gallery, Liverpool
18 September - 24 October

Noodle bar [4 March 2009]
‘Noodle Bar Advert, Seoul’, June 2006. Photo: Paul Sullivan. [enlarge]
 

Static's Pamphlet, a monthly publication which debates art activity, announces "We clearly recognise 'us''... when we see ourselves defined against 'them'"1, punctuating 'Noodle Bar's multiple tension points; "why people leave one place for  Read on…

Static, Liverpool
1 June 2008 – 30 May 2009

VITAL 06: International Chinese Live Art Festival [21 November 2006]
Edwin Lung, ‘Urbis’, performance, 2006. Photo: James Champion. [enlarge]
 

Clutching two-and-a-half millilitres of White Flower ointment, I smile nervously. I am sat in Manchester’s Chinese Arts Centre, and curled naked opposite me is Leung Po Shan. A white carnation is poised in her lips, her face two centimetres  Read on…

Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester
2-5 November

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