susan pui san lok
Research Fellow
Department: Art and Design
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Qualifications
2004 PhD Fine Art (Practice & Theory) with Aavaa (African & Asian Visual Artists Archive), School of Architecture & the Visual Arts, University of East London
1996 MA Feminism & the Visual Arts (Distinction) University of Leeds, Department of Fine Art
1994 BA Hons Fine Art (First) Bretton Hall College, University of Leeds
Research Interests
Notions of place, translation, nostalgia, aspiration, migration and diaspora; interdisciplinary, multi-modal and collaborative practices; practice-led and practice-based research; contemporary 'Chinese' art
Biography
Current projects include a Film and Video Umbrella commission funded by the Wellcome Institute, to be presented at De La Warr Pavilion in 2012 and Glasgow Tramway in 2014. Solo projects includeFaster, Higher (2008), commissioned by Film and Video Umbrella and the BFI; DIY Ballroom/Live (2007), a Cornerhouse Bigger Picture national touring commission; and Golden (2005-6), an exhibition/residency at Beaconsfield, London, and Chinese Arts Centre, Manchester. Her work has featured in group shows in the UK at 198 Gallery, Beaconsfield, Cafe Gallery Projects, Chinese Arts Centre, Cornerhouse, Hatton Gallery, Hayward Gallery, SPACETriangle, and internationally at Gallery 4a, Australia, Beijing 798 Space, Hong Kong Arts Centre, and Shanghai Duolun MoMA.
Publications include three artist books: Faster, Higher, edited with Nina Ernst (London: Film and Video Umbrella, 2009); Golden (Notes), funded by the AHRC Diasporas Programme (London: SPSL, 2007); and NEWS (London: SPSL, 2005). She has also edited a guest edited issue of theJournal of Visual Culturecalled 'Hong Kong and other Returns' (2007, v6n3), and contributed essays to Mieke Bal & Joanne Morra eds. 'Acts of Translation', a themed issue of Journal of Visual Culture (2006, v6n1), David A. Bailey, Ian Baucom & Sonia Boyce, eds. Shades of Black: Assembling Black Arts in 1980s Britain(London: Iniva, N. Carolina: Duke UP, 2005), and Dennis Atkinson & Paul Dash eds., Social and Critical Practices in Art Education (Stoke on Trent: Trentham Books, 2005); as well as various articles, reviews and exhibition catalogue essays.
She has guest lectured at: Alfred University, NY; Courtauld Institute of Art, London; Duke University, NC; Birkbeck College, University of London; Goldsmiths College, University of London; Royal College of Art, London; University of the Arts, London; University of East London; University of Leeds; University of Plymouth, Exeter; University of Westminster, London; Winchester School of Art, University of Southampton; and presented talks and papers at 198 Gallery, London; Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth; British Museum, London; Cornerhouse, Manchester; David Roberts Art Foundation, London; Firstsite, Colchester; Hebbel Am Ufer, Berlin; Hong Kong Arts Centre; Iniva (Institute of International Visual Arts); Photographers' Gallery,London; Tate Britain & Modern, London; Whitechapel Art Gallery, London; and Tyneside Cinema, Newcastle. She has also been an Editor of the Journal of Visual Culture 2006.
Languages spoken
Cantonese
