Event overview
A lecture by Shu Lea Cheang
Shu Lea Cheang has made four feature-length films, FRESH KILL (1994), I.K.U. (2000) and FLUIDø (2017) and UKI (2023). Each film is respectively termed ecocybernoia, sci-fi cyberpunk, sci-fi cypherpunk and Scifi Viral Alt-Reality Cinema. Taken together, in over three decades of work, they seek to define a genre of New Queer Sci-Fi Cinema. In this lecture Shu Lea Cheang will present key parts of these films and present an overview of New Queer Sci-Fi Cinema.
Biography
Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker who engages in genre-bending gender-hacking art practices. Celebrated as a net art pioneer with BRANDON (1998-99), the first web art commissioned and collected by Guggenheim Museum, New York. Cheang represented Taiwan with the mixed media installation, 3x3x6, at Venice Biennale 2019. Crafting her own genre of Scifi New Queer Cinema, she has made 4 feature films: FRESH KILL(1994), I.K.U. (2000), FLUIDø (2017) and UKI (2023). In 2023, she is touring UKI at LAS Art Foundation (Berlin), Centre Pompidou (Paris) , MoMA (New York) and ICA (London) among other venues, also exhibiting at RED PILL (2023) at Hope, Techno-Humanities (Museion, Italy) and UTTER (2023) at Attention After Technology (Trondheim, Norway). http://mauvaiscontact.info
Digital Culture Unit, Goldsmiths, University of London https://www.gold.ac.uk/digital-culture-unit/
Dates & times
| Date | Time | Add to calendar |
|---|---|---|
| 14 Dec 2023 | 5:00pm - 7:00pm |
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