Wen Yau

'As a cross-media artist, researcher, curator and writer, Wen Yau has been concentrating on performance/live art and social practices in the last few years.  Her works often grapple with cultural difference and intimacy in public space. Recent projects include Homage to All Peaceful Revolutionaries (cross-media, 2014-), Painting like an Artist (conceptual painting, 2010-), I am a Grade D Artist (mixed media, 2009-2013), Seeing is Existing (pinhole photographic series, 2008-), cop.ied (cross-media, 2008-), Civil Left/Right (video & performance, 2007-), i-(s)wear (one-to-one performance, 2007-), TengSeWong/Voice-Writer series (media & live art, 2005-), I pledge (not) guilty (live art, 2004-05), etc.  Her work has been shown in Hong Kong, Macau, Mainland China (Beijing, Chengdu, Xi’an & Guangzhou), Taiwan, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Burma, USA, Sweden, Finland, UK, Germany, France, Italy, Slovakia, New Zealand, Bolivia, etc.  She is also actively engaged in various creative and arts educational projects and curated “Talkover/Handover 2.0” (2017), “See Through” (2009-2011), “Talkover/Handover” (Hong Kong, 2007), “i-D Generations – Living Art Expo” (Hong Kong, 2005), “LIVE+MAY” (Hong Kong, 2003), etc.  She is also actively engaged in various creative and arts educational projects and co-founded Woofer Ten, a community arts space in Hong Kong.

Working as Researcher for Hong Kong (2005-2010) at Asia Art Archive, she has conducted several research projects including the first-ever Hong Kong Performance Art Research (2005-06), Talkover/Handover – research on post 1997 Hong Kong art (2007); commissioned by Hong Kong Arts Development Council (2004-06), she carried out research on Interdisciplinary Arts in Hong Kong.  She has just completed her thesis Performing Identities: Performative Practices in postcolonial Hong Kong Art and Activism at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. In 2015-2016, she served as Fulbright Visiting Scholar at the Performance Studies Department at the Northwestern University, USA.  She contributes frequently to various periodicals in Hong Kong and Asia.'*

In 2005–06, Wen contributed to the Womanifesto project No Man's Land. Her Contribution was titled Journey to Nomansland.

* '關於魂游 who’s wen yau', https://www.wenyau.net/wp/whoswy/, accessed February 2025.