Linda Lai Chiu-han, also known as Linda Chiu-han Lai, is a Hong Kong-based academic, artist, curator and art historian working at the intersections of experimental video art, interactive media and cultural history. Lai is Associate Professor at the School of Creative Media at the City University of Hong Kong. She is the founder and artistic director of the Writing Machine Collective and runs a self-funded art space called Floating Projects and works as an independent curator of moving image. Lai's artworks are primarily experiments with various forms of video and installation, based on her research in experimental historiography. Themes of her artistic work include Hong Kong cultural identity and gender. Her works have been exhibited widely in Hong Kong and worldwide in cities including Shanghai, Torun, Paris, Barcelona, Kuala Lumpur, London, Taipei, Seoul, New York City and Montreal, and several times in International Competition at the International Short Film Festival Oberhausen. Lai received her B.A. in English Language & Literature at the Chinese University of Hong Kong and pursued her M.A. and Ph.D. in the USA.
2007: "Whither the Walker Goes: Spatial Practices and Negative Poetics in 1990s Chinese Urban Cinema,” anthologized in , ed. Zhang Zhen, 205-37 :
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2004: with Theresa Junko Mikuriya, a 288-page documentation of their 8 rounds of dialogues via photography and text :
2001: “Film and Enigmatization: Nostalgia, Nonsense, and Remembering,” anthologized in , ed. Esther C.M. Yau,, 231-50 :
2000: "HK Cinema in the 1930s: Docility, Social Hygiene, Pleasure-seeking & the Consolidation of the Film Industry," in , issue #11. Officially Upload on 1 November 2000.
Selected artworks
; Installations
PUSH: the Quest for a Voice, In Search of a Body, an interactive, digital installation in collaboration with Theresa Mikuriya, Official Selection for the Hong Kong Art Biennial Exhibition, November 20, 2003 to March 1, 2004.
One Take ; a looping video, at Para Site, Hong Kong, 20 Feb to 10 Mar 2002; and the , an installation exhibition on water, CoCA, Turen, Poland, 2 March to 29 April 2012.
1906-1989-2012/ Guangzhou-Hong Kong-Shanghai-Anji " 2012, a mixed media installation, commissioned for the themed exhibition, in theme section “Revisit” curated by Qiu Zhijie at the 9th 2012 Shanghai Biennale, Oct 2, 2012 to Mar 31, 2013.
Door Games, Window Frames: Near Drama, an automated multi-window projection using found images from Hong Kong Cantonese melodrama from the 1960s.
; Video art Lai's video work has been collected by the Asia Art Archive.
Door Games Window Frames: Near Drama ; 2012, 11m 30s. Screened at festivals in South Korea and the Netherlands.
Voices Seen, Images Heard ; 2009, 28m. Screened at thirteen festivals and art events around the world.
Non-place, Other Space ; 2009, 3m 35s. Screened at seven festivals around the world. and 9 art spaces
Shanghai Saga: Other Skies, Other Lands ; 2009, 32m. Entry in the International Competition at 55th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2009.
Trespassing World Cities ; 2005, 28m. Juror's selection for Women Make Waves Film Festival 2006.
Door Game ; 2005, 26m. Screened at four festivals in Asia.
I Told Them My Camera Was On ; 2004/2005, 24m. Screened at three festivals in Europe, including the 51st International Short Film Festival Oberhausen 2005 and the .
