Curatorial
Practice
Film & Performance Night on Feb 8th, 2020
Queering Now: Double Fikret 双面菲克雷特, single-channel video by Wang Haiyang, Image courtesy of the artist, White Space Beijing, and Capsule Shanghai.
Queering Now: Steamed Three Eggs, novel reading by Sin單 Wai慧 Kin乾 (Victoria Sin), Image courtesy of the artist and Greg Goodale
Queering Now: The Parasites of Pangu, opera performed by Ayesha Tan Jones. Image courtesy of the artist and Greg Goodale
︎ Fluid identities and spatial navigation
︎ Live Performances
︎ Immersive experiences
Queering Now was a film and performance programme that amplified marginalized diaspora Chinese queer artists collectively for the first time in London. Co-curated by Whiskey Chow and Sha Li, the event unfolded across three floors of Rich Mix, transforming the venue into a multi-sensory landscape of moving images, live art, dystopian opera, speculative fiction, and queer dance.
Described by Dr. Hongwei Bao, queer Asian scholar and author of Queer China (Routledge, 2020), as “jam-packed with bold, avant-garde, and dazzling artwork and performances,” Queering Now became a constellation of visual, sonic, and embodied expressions of queerness. From Wang Haiyang’s surreal stop-motion animations to Sin單 Wai慧 Kin乾’s speculative readings, from Ayesha Tan Jones’ dystopian opera Parasites of Pangu to a post-midnight queer dance party, the programme dissolved boundaries between genres, media, and social spaces.
The curatorial philosophy behind Queering Now, drawing on queer theory, imagines queerness not as a fixed identity but as a mode of becoming — nonlinear, anticipatory, and resistant to capitalist notions of productivity. Healing emerges in the suspension of normative time and expectation: in the creation of collective rituals of visibility, in the forging of kinships across diaspora, and in the reconfiguration of space as a site of fluid belonging. As a curatorial act, it cultivates healing through the joy of shared excess, the affirmation of multiplicity, and the possibility of inhabiting time otherwise.
Queering Now was kindly supported by Arts Council England, Live Art UK, and the CAN Festival.
︎ Live Performances
︎ Immersive experiences
Queering Now was a film and performance programme that amplified marginalized diaspora Chinese queer artists collectively for the first time in London. Co-curated by Whiskey Chow and Sha Li, the event unfolded across three floors of Rich Mix, transforming the venue into a multi-sensory landscape of moving images, live art, dystopian opera, speculative fiction, and queer dance.
Described by Dr. Hongwei Bao, queer Asian scholar and author of Queer China (Routledge, 2020), as “jam-packed with bold, avant-garde, and dazzling artwork and performances,” Queering Now became a constellation of visual, sonic, and embodied expressions of queerness. From Wang Haiyang’s surreal stop-motion animations to Sin單 Wai慧 Kin乾’s speculative readings, from Ayesha Tan Jones’ dystopian opera Parasites of Pangu to a post-midnight queer dance party, the programme dissolved boundaries between genres, media, and social spaces.
The curatorial philosophy behind Queering Now, drawing on queer theory, imagines queerness not as a fixed identity but as a mode of becoming — nonlinear, anticipatory, and resistant to capitalist notions of productivity. Healing emerges in the suspension of normative time and expectation: in the creation of collective rituals of visibility, in the forging of kinships across diaspora, and in the reconfiguration of space as a site of fluid belonging. As a curatorial act, it cultivates healing through the joy of shared excess, the affirmation of multiplicity, and the possibility of inhabiting time otherwise.
Queering Now was kindly supported by Arts Council England, Live Art UK, and the CAN Festival.