Engagement with Urban Public Space: From
Unauthorized Interventions to Institutional
Commissions.
AAS Annual Conference, Seattle.
3 – 6 Feb 2016
Umbrellas, Universal Suffrage and Urban
Public Space: Artistic and Creative
Practices during the Occupy Movement in Hong
Kong.
CAA Annual Conference, Washington.
Translocal Site-responsiveness in Chinese
Urban Creativity
Talk at the Asian Cities: Colonial to
Global seminar, TU Delft.
15 Sep 2015
Interaction with the City:
Site-responsive Urban Creativity in China.
Talk at the Cross Currents In The Humanities
Lecture Series at NYU Shanghai.
18 Aug 2015
Transcultural Urban Creativity and
Activism in Hong Kong.
Talk at the international summer school, Urban
Culture in Theory and Action at
the Copenhagen University.
5 –
9 July 2015
Urban Art Images and the Concerns of
Mainlandization in Hong Kong. ICAS 9,
Adelaide
13 –
14 June 2015
Aesthetics, Agencies and Affect: art and
creativity in support of the Umbrella
Revolution. RE:Public
Cultural Typhoon 2015, Ōsaka
Negotiating the Space of Creativity: Urban
Art Images for More Livable City Image in
China and Japan. Cultural
Mediation: Creativity, Display,
Performance. Annual conference
2014. Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe
in a Global Context. Heidelberg University.
Free Art Friday: Conveying the Joy of Arts
on the Streets. The
Asian Conference on Cultural Studies 2014.
Organized by IAFOR, Ōsaka
30 – 31 May 2014
Echoes of Silence–Art Against
Amnesia (video presentation) June 4th 25 Anniversary International
Conference, City University of Hong
Kong, Hong Kong.
2 May 2014
East Asian Urban Art: Self-Expression
through Visual Images in Hong Kong, Tokyo
and Seoul. Talk in the discussion event "Experimental
University of MAD City" in Fanclub, MAD City,
Tokyo.
30 Apr 2014
East Asian Urban Art: Self-Expression
through Visual Images in Hong Kong, Tokyo
and Seoul. Talk in Professor Mōri
Yoshitaka's course "Globalization" in the
Sophia University.
3 – 6 Apr 2014
Engaging the Streets: Urban Art Images for
Social Awareness. The Fifth Asian Conference of Arts and
Humanities. Organized by IAFOR, Ōsaka.
29 March 2014
Free Art Friday and Other Art Events in
Hong Kong and Tokyo. Talk at the Total Museum of Contemporary
Art, Seoul.
11 Feb 2014
Occupying the Streets: Urban Art Images
for Social Awareness in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Talk at the Department of Fine Arts,
Chinese University of Hong Kong.
14 Jan 2014
East Asian Urban Art: Self-Expression
through Visual Images in Hong Kong, Tokyo
and Seoul. Talk in the postgraduate seminar at the
Department of Musical Creativity and
Environment, Tokyo University of the Arts,
Tokyo.
4 – 5 Dec 2013
Challenges of Global Art World to Chinese
Women Artists. International seminar: Women in
Contemporary China: Facing the Challenges of
Agency. Organized by Asian Studies,
University of Helsinki, Finland.
Constructing and Circulating the Myth of
Mao Through Visual Images in the Chinese
Press.
Talk at the Department of Media and
Communication, City University of Hong Kong.
Negotiating the Site Specificity and
Transculturality of Urban Art in Hong Kong.
Presentation at the XIXth EACS Conference.
Organized by the Université Paris Diderot, the
Institut National des Langues et Civilisations
Orientales (INALCO) and the Bibliothèque
universitaire des Langues et Civilisations
(BULAC), Paris.
18 – 19 May 2012
The Significance of Site, Space
and Context in Chinese Urban Art. Presentation at the Shifting
Dialogues: The Politics of Site, Locality
& Context in Asian Performance and
Visual Arts. International symposium by
Asian
Art and Performance Consortium,
Helsinki.
20 Mar 2012
Many Faces of Mao Zedong.
Talk at the University of Toronto Art Center,
Toronto.
15 – 18 Mar 2012
AAS Annual
Conference. Discussant for the panel
Workforce: Representations of Labour.
16 Nov 2011
Many Faces of Mao Zedong.
Talk at the Turku 2011 - views on public
art seminar. Art History, University of
Turku.
6 Oct 2011
East Asian Urban Art: Graffiti in China
Talk at the Urban Studies post graduate
seminar. Department
of Social Research, University of Helsinki.
24 – 26 Aug 2011
Feminine Contemporary Graffiti in China
Presentation at the Imagining Spaces &
Places. An international
interdisciplinary conference. University of
Helsinki.
17 – 19 Jun 2011
Negotiating the Representation of Public
Space through Graffiti Images.
Presentation at the Transactions and
Transformations, the10th Biennial
Conference of NACS. University of Oslo.
2 – 4 Jun 2011
Colourfobia in Graffiti?
Presentation at the Colours, Images,
Materialities workshop of B4
Transcultural Visuality learning group. The
Cluster of Excellence "Asia and Europe in
Global Context.
31 Mar – 4 Apr 2011
Creating Transcultural Public Space
Presentation at the 70 Years of Asian
Studies, the Joint Conference of AAS and
ICAS. Honolulu.
28 – 30 Jan 2011
From Scenic Sites to Art Galleries– the Impact of Site on Graffiti in
China
Presentation at the Urban Visualities:
Sites and Sights of Street Art seminar
organized by the Madras Craft Foundation and
DakshinaChitra. Chennai.
8 –
9 Sep
2010
Visual Dialogue with the Maoist Past.
Presentation at the Annual Conference of the
British Association for Chinese Studies
(BACS). University of Bristol.
14 – 18 Jul 2010
Parodying Mao.
Presentation at the XVIII Biennial
Conference of the European Association of
Chinese Studies (EACS).
University of Riga.
17 May 2010
Many Faces of Mao Zedong.
Talk at the Department of Art History, Freie
Universität, Berlin.
10 May 2010
Western Influences in Chinese Art: from
the “Skill of Beauty” to Global Art
Marketing.
Talk at the Institute of Chinese studies,
Heidelberg University.
22 – 24 Oct 2009
Negotiating Difference. Contemporary
Chinese Art in the Global Context Conference
Freie Universitet, Berlin.
17 – 19 Sep 2009
Visual(izing) Symbols of Chairman Mao in
Contemporary Chinese Art.
Presentation at the Mind and Matter –
Nordik 2009, Conference for Art
Historians. University of Jyväskylä.
24 – 27 Aug 2009
Re-Imaging Mao Zedong.
Presentation at the Art History – Social
history. Summer School of the Finnish
National Graduate School of Art History. Åbo
Akademi University, Turku.
26 – 30 May 2009
Beijing International Conference on Art
Theory and Criticism, Beijing, China.
Organized by the School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, Central Academy of Fine Arts and
the University of Beijing.
16 – 17 May 2009
Tian’anmen in Chinese contemporary art.
Presentation at the Visualising Asian
Modernity seminar organized by the
University of Aarhus and the University of
Copenhagen. University of Aarhus.
8 May 2009
Many Faces of Mao Zedong.
Presentation at the workshop of the Popular
Culture Research Group. Institute of Chinese
Studies, University of Heidelberg.
7 May 2009
Graffiti with Chinese Characteristics?
Talk at the Institute of Chinese Studies,
Heidelberg University.
12 – 16 Nov 2008
Grassroots creativity on Chinese streets?
Presentation at the Asian Creativity in
Culture and Technology conference
organized by NIAS and NTNU. University of
Trondheim.
18 – 21 Aug 2008
Mao’s Images and Society.
Presentation at the Art, Gender and
Society. Summer School of the Finnish
National Graduate School of Art History.
University of Helsinki.
14 – 16 Aug 2008
Creating and Consuming the Visual Icon.
Presentation at the Concept and Theories
in Asian Studies seminar of the Graduate
School of Contemporary Asian Studies.
University of Jyväskylä.
6 – 10 Aug 2008
Female (Self-)Imaging against Maoist
Background.
Presentation at the XVIIth Biennial
Conference of the European Association for
Chinese Studies (EACS). University of
Lund, Sweden.
29 – 30 May 2008
Chinese Women (Self-)Imaging against
Maoist Background.
Presentation at the Dynamics of
Asia-Pacific Studies: Politics, Gender and
Culture workshop by Asia-Pacific Studies
Program, East Asian Studies Program and
Confucius Institute. Helsinki.
8 – 12 Jan 2008
Many Faces of Mao Zedong.
Presentation at the seminar of the Graduate
School of Contemporary Asian Studies and
University of St. Petersburg. St. Petersburg.
6 – 8 Dec 2007
China on Display: Past and Present
Practices of Selecting, Exhibiting and
Viewing Chinese Visual and Material Culture.
Center for Non-Western Studies, University of
Leiden.
8 – 12 Jan 2007
The Role of Chinese Contemporary Art in
Society.
Presentation at the Third Annual Graduate
Seminar on China. The Chinese University
of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China.
5 – 9 Nov 2006
Researching Chinese Contemporary Art at
a Turning Point?
Presentation at the Asian Studies at a
Turning Point seminar. Organized by
Graduate School of Contemporary Asian Studies
and NIAS. University of Turku.
29 May – 1 Jun 2006
Chinese Propaganda posters during the
Cultural Revolution (1966-76) as the means
of effective governmental control.
Presentation at the Arts and Terror
conference. University of Jyväskylä.
"Keep your hands open, and all the sands of the
desert can pass through them.
Close them, and all you can feel is a bit of
grit."
- Taisen Deshimaru -