Talks & Readings

Talks & Readings

Closing Ceremony, Poetics of Dwelling 2016, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Photo by: Noel Jones “Bad Kids and Me”, YiXi, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2016 July Forum: “Rethinking Socialism: Hong Kong Handover 20th Anniversary, Where to go?,” Taipei Hakka Cultural Center Conference Room, organized by Colloud and New International, 2017 “Between Family-State Love and Romance: RETURN OF THE SWALLOWS (1948) and THE SISTERS’ TRAGIC LOVE (1953)” Talk by Commissioned Scholar, Hong Kong Film Archive, 2017 Q/A after Screening of We Are Alive, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, 2012

2022 Invited Talk: “Nostalgia is a Waving Flag: Taiwan and Hong-Kong Video Art Exhibition” Opening, Hong-gah Museum, Taiwan, 2022.8.13, 3pm
2018 Invited Talk: “A Man/Society in Trouble in Hong Kong Comedies,” Hong Kong Film Archive [Report from Hong Kong Film Archive Newsletter 86]
2018 Invited Talk: “A Deceiving World: Gender and Sexuality in Li Pingqian’s Films,” Hong Kong Film Archive [Report from Hong Kong Film Archive Newsletter 86]
2017 Respondent, Nicholas de Villiers: “Queer and Sex Worker Activist Documentary Historiography,” Taipei Film Collectors Museum. [Video 1] [Video 2] [Photo 1] [Photo 2]
2017 Invited Speaker, “Loh Ti’s Martial Arts Films (1968): Travel with a Sword, The Wandering Swordsman, and Duel at the Supreme Gate,” Post-Screening Talk, Hong Kong Film Archive
2017 Invited speaker, “Black and white vs. paradoxical ambiguity: Historicity in Hong Kong popular culture,” organized by The House of Hong Kong Literature, Cattle Deport Artist Village. [Live Video]
2017 July Forum: “Rethinking Socialism: Hong Kong Handover 20th Anniversary, Where to go?,” Taipei Hakka Cultural Center Conference Room, organized by Colloud and New International. [Transcript]
2017 Taboo Love,” Relax Literature, Radio Television Hong Kong. [Video]
2017 Between Family-State Love and Romance: Return of the Swallows (1948) and The Sisters’ Tragic Love (1953).” Talk by Commissioned Scholar, Hong Kong Film Archive
2017 Book Launch of Floating Shadows: Yau Ching’s Critical Writings on Film 1987-2016, The House of Hong Kong Literature. [Live  Part 1] [Live Part 2]
2017 Post-Screening Q&A of Diasporama: Dear Air, “Hong Kong Documentary Retrospective,” HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
2016 From The Price of Salt to Carol: The new closet of global gay politics,” Vixen’s Venue, Taipei, organized by Taiwan Gender and Sexuality Rights Association (G/SRAT). https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/the_L_word/M.1480519955.A.7ED.html
2016 Bad Kids and Me,” YiXi, Power Station of Art, Shanghai. [Photo 1] [Photo 2] [Photo 3]
2016 The Line Between Picking or Not Picking Wild Flowers: Where is the Lady’s Home? (1947) and Wild Flowers Are Sweeter (1959).” Talk by Commissioned Scholar, Hong Kong Film Archive
2016 From The Price of Salt to Carol: The new closet of global gay politics,” Vixen’s Venue, Taipei, organized by Taiwan Gender and Sexuality Rights Association (G/SRAT)https://www.ptt.cc/bbs/the_L_word/M.1480519955.A.7ED.html
2016 “Sex/Gender Politics in 1950’s South China Left-wing Film Movement,” Marxism Festival Hong Kong, The Coming Society
2016 Opening Ceremony, “Poetics of Dwelling” Festival, Eslite Bookstore, Causeway Bay, Hong Kong
2016 Talk: “Anti”, “Poetics of Dwelling,” HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity
2016 Public Lecture on Anthology of Hong Kong Literature: Poetry, The House of Hong Kong Literature, Hong Kong
2015 Staged Reading of The Malady of Death: Écrire et Liredirected by Haegue Yang, curated by Mobile M+: Live Art, Sunbeam Theatre
2015 Speaker, “Righteousness of Foul Language?: Campus Democracy and Student Autonomy” Forum, Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2015 Across Media: Sharpening the Private and the Public,” You Yu Yi Book Launch, Xueeryou Bookstore, Guangzhou
2015 You Yu Yi Book Launch, Kishu An Forest of Literature, Taipei
2015 Predicaments and Reconstitution of Family and Nation: The Light of Women (1937).” Talk by Commissioned Scholar, Hong Kong Film Archive
2014 Literature and Memory” Symposium: Cities as Remembered in Literature, The 10th Hong Kong Literary Festival, Hong Kong Central Library Lecture Theatre
2014 Hair of the Egg, Shadows of Poetry — Yau Ching’s Poems,” Guangzhou Union Bookstore
2014 Q&A with Amber Hollibaugh, Screening of Heart of the Matter, “Neomoralism Under Neoliberalism” International Conference, Lingnan University
2014 I Never Promised You a Rose Garden: Hong Kong Cultural Critique Book Launch, The House of Hong Kong Literature, Hong Kong
2014 Talk with Amber Hollibaugh, Leo & Hans Huang: “Sex Governance and Self-determination,” Guangzhou
2014 Poetry Reading, “Reading Cantonese Poetry Out Loud Concert,” The Text is Free – Freespace Fest, West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade [Photo 1] [Photo 2]
2013-2014 GENDER vs. gender,” Guangdong Times Museum, China
2013 Post-Screening Q/A of We Are Alive, Ozu Concept Bookstore, Shenzhen
2011 La Dolce Vita and Poetry: Book Launch of Yau Ching’s Big Hairy Egg, kubrick Bookstore at MoMA, Beijing. [Video]
2011 “Stripping Skirts and Pants: Hong Kong Cultural Criticism in the 1980s,” Wistaria Teahouse, Taipei, June 12 [Video]
2009 Invited Speaker on “Chinese Queer Writing.” kubrick Bookstore
2008 Talk with Li Waiyee: “GdotTV Launch Celebration: When Gender/Sex Education Meets New Media,” Hong Kong Rainbow Centre
2007 Panelist, Seminar on “Li Han-hsiang’s Con and Porn.” Hong Kong Film Archive
2003 Invited Speaker, “Exploring the Language and Aesthetics of Female Authorship in Chinese Cinemas.” Women Make Waves Forum, Taiwan
2001 Seminar, “Girl Play: 1st Hong Kong International Women’s Theatre Festival,” Hong Kong Arts Centre

 

Closing Ceremony, Poetics of Dwelling 2016, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Photo by: Noel Jones Closing Ceremony, Poetics of Dwelling 2016, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Photo by: Noel Jones Closing Ceremony, Poetics of Dwelling 2016, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Photo by: Noel Jones Closing Ceremony, Poetics of Dwelling 2016, HKICC Lee Shau Kee School of Creativity, Photo by: Noel Jones “Bad Kids and Me”, YiXi, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2016 “Bad Kids and Me”, YiXi, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2016 “Bad Kids and Me”, YiXi, Power Station of Art, Shanghai, 2016 “Sex/Gender Politics in 1950's South China Left-wing Film Movement,” Marxism Festival Hong Kong, The Coming Society, 2016 Poster for "Across Media: Sharpening the Private and the Public," YOU YU YI Book Launch, Xueeryou Bookstore, Guangzhou, 2015 Poster for “Hong Kong Literature Lecture II: Focused Reading of Poetry Selection”, The House of Hong Kong Literature, 2016 Speaker, “dirtypress" Symposium: “Occupation, Body and Power — Sex/Gender Politics in Social Movement,” Talentum Bookshop, Yau Ma Tei, 2015 “The Line Between Picking or Not Picking Wild Flowers: WHERE IS THE LADY’S HOME? (1947) and WILD FLOWERS ARE SWEETER (1959).” Talk by Commissioned Scholar, Hong Kong Film Archive, 2016 “The Line Between Picking or Not Picking Wild Flowers: WHERE IS THE LADY’S HOME? (1947) and WILD FLOWERS ARE SWEETER (1959).” Talk by Commissioned Scholar, Hong Kong Film Archive, 2016 “Predicament and Reconstitution of Family and Nation: THE LIGHT OF WOMEN (1937)” Talk by Commissioned Scholar, Hong Kong Film Archive, 2015 “Predicament and Reconstitution of Family and Nation: THE LIGHT OF WOMEN (1937)” Talk by Commissioned Scholar, Hong Kong Film Archive, 2015 “Literature and Memory” Symposium: Cities as Remembered in Literature, The 10th Hong Kong Literary Festival, Hong Kong Central Library Lecture Theatre, 2014“Coming Together @ Sixteen”, Gender and Sexuality Rights Association Taiwan, 2015 Panelist, “Sisterhood is forever: Family-nation in 1930s Chinese cinemas.”, “Sexuality Studies for 20 Years” Conference, organized by Taiwan National Central University, 2015 Poetry Reading, "Reading Cantonese Poetry Out Loud Concert", The Text is Free - Freespace Fest at West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, 2014 Poetry Reading, "Reading Cantonese Poetry Out Loud Concert", The Text is Free - Freespace Fest at West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, 2014 Poetry Reading, "Reading Cantonese Poetry Out Loud Concert", The Text is Free - Freespace Fest at West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, 2014 Poetry Reading, "Reading Cantonese Poetry Out Loud Concert", The Text is Free - Freespace Fest at West Kowloon Waterfront Promenade, 2014 Speaker, “Righteousness of Foul Language?: Campus Democracy and Student Autonomy” Forum, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, 2015 Talk with Amber Hollibaugh, Leo & Hans Huang: “Sex Governance and Self-determination,” Guangzhou, 2014 “The Future in Past Tense, Voices in Silence –– A Retrospective of Yau Ching’s Film and Video Art,” Guangdong Times Museum, China, 12/2013-1/2014, Photo by: Ah Shan “The Future in Past Tense, Voices in Silence –– A Retrospective of Yau Ching’s Film and Video Art,” Guangdong Times Museum, China, 12/2013-1/2014, Photo by: Ah Shan "GENDER vs. gender," Seminar for “The Future In Past Tense––A Retrospective of Yau Ching’s Film and Video Art,” Guangdong Times Museum, China, 2014 Talk with Li Waiyee, “GdotTV Launch Celebration: When Gender/Sex Education Meets New Media,” Hong Kong Rainbow Centre, 2008 July Forum: “Rethinking Socialism: Hong Kong Handover 20th Anniversary, Where to go?,” Taipei Hakka Cultural Center Conference Room, organized by Colloud and New International, 2017 July Forum: “Rethinking Socialism: Hong Kong Handover 20th Anniversary, Where to go?,” Taipei Hakka Cultural Center Conference Room, organized by Colloud and New International, 2017 July Forum: “Rethinking Socialism: Hong Kong Handover 20th Anniversary, Where to go?,” Taipei Hakka Cultural Center Conference Room, organized by Colloud and New International, 2017 Invited speaker, “Black and white vs. paradoxical ambiguity: Historicity in Hong Kong popular culture,” organized by The House of Hong Kong Literature, Cattle Deport Artist Village, 2017 Invited speaker, “Black and white vs. paradoxical ambiguity: Historicity in Hong Kong popular culture,” organized by The House of Hong Kong Literature, Cattle Deport Artist Village, 2017 Invited speaker, “Black and white vs. paradoxical ambiguity: Historicity in Hong Kong popular culture,” organized by The House of Hong Kong Literature, Cattle Deport Artist Village, 2017 Invited Speaker, “Loh Ti's Martial Arts Films (1968): Travel with a Sword, The Wandering Swordsman, and Duel at the Supreme Gate,” Hong Kong Film Archive,2017. Photo: Eric Tsang Siu Wang