Title: The Spinning Worlds of Angela Su 
Speaker: Angela Su (Artist)
Moderator: Prof. Yongwoo Lee (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Date: 2022. November 23. 8:00pm ~ 9:30 pm (Hong Kong time) including Q&A 
Venue: Chen Kou Bun Building UG03, CUHK & Zoom meeting

Abstract
We live in a changed world that is radically different from what it was 3 years ago. There is a global awareness that we are in a world of continuous crisis but there is no resolution and no reconciliation of all the conflicts at the moment. What can be done when our world is falling apart? How can an artist respond to the conditions of precarity?

In this presentation, artist Angela Su will speak about her practice and her exhibition at 2022 Venice Biennale. Titled ARISE, the exhibition revolves around a speculative story that gives us a lens to look at the current state of events in the world. Weaving together fact and fiction, the artist creates a space where she explores ideas that cannot be confronted directly, and thereby points to a way of survival in this broken world.

About the Artist
Angela Su’s works investigate the perception and imagery of the body, through metamorphosis, hybridity and transformation. Her research-based projects materialize in drawing, video, hair embroidery, performative, and installation works. Central to these projects are video essays and texts where she embodies different alter-egos, merging reality and fantasy. Frequently reimagining and metamorphosing the female mind and body to create sites of resistance against the injustices in our social system, Su pushes the capacity of bodies to withstand violence and bear pain, to be possessed and taken over, and thus to transform and bear witness.

In 2022, Su represented Hong Kong at the 59th Venice Biennale. In 2019, she was commissioned by Wellcome Trust to present a new project in “Contagious Cities”, an international program about the global challenges of epidemic preparedness. She has also participated in exhibitions in museums and institutions internationally, including The first Helsinki Biennial (Helsinki, 2021); Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo (Mexico City, 2020); The Drawing Center (New York City, 2020); Whitechapel Gallery (London, 2019); The 2nd CAFAM Biennale (Beijing, 2014); and the 17th Biennale of Sydney (Sydney, 2010). In 2013, she published an artist novel Berty, and, in 2017, a science fiction anthology Dark Fluid, where she uses science fiction as a tool for social justice.
https://blindspotgallery.com/artist/angela-su/

Angela Su: Arise, Hong Kong in Venice Biennale 2022 (徐世琪:悬浮,香港在威尼斯)
https://2022.vbexhibitions.hk

Registration: https://cloud.itsc.cuhk.edu.hk/mycuform/view.php?id=1772403

Enquiry: haoqianyu@cuhk.edu.hk