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Liu Mankun
writer; doctoral researcher at the school of creative media, city university of hong kong
Mankun is an author of contemporary art history and criticism based in Hong Kong. Her doctoral research looks into visual and performance arts in Asia that engage with the lived realities and present futures of the Anthropocene from indigenous animist perspectives. Currently, she is doing fieldwork in multiple indigenous communities in East and Southeast Asia to learn from the artists and their surrounding more-than-human worlds. In particular, she attends to how contemporary art projects draw from and critically intervene in longer indigenous histories of cosmological practices, gender schemata, economy of emotions, politics of aesthetics, and eco-media environment. Priorly, she researched Hong Kong socially engaged art for her Mphil at the Academy of Visual Arts, Hong Kong Baptist University. Having presented and organized panels at multiple conferences, she is working on calling together and foregrounding Asian scholarly perspectives in environmental humanities and indigenous studies. More broadly, she has been writing about arts and society/ecology since 2017. Her articles are seen in Artlink, Ocula, The Art Newspaper China, LEAP, and Art Basel Stories.
Recent publications:
“Decolonising Aesthetics: Natasha Tontey’s Queer Futurism and Indigenous Cultural Politics of Minahasa,” Artlink 43:1 | Parnati–Kudlila/Autumn–Winter (Apr–Jul 2023) Indonesia Focus, April 2023.
“Confronting Land Politics at Art Basel Hong Kong,” Art Basel Stories, February 2023.
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“Ghost 2565: Conjuring Spirits in Bangkok,” Ocula, November 2022.
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“The Genealogy of Jealousy, Difficult Indigeneity: On the Karrabing Film Collective,” LEAP, December 2021.
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“A Non-Species’ Discourse,” Multiple/Species Encounters, Hong Kong: Wanwu Practice Group, 2021.
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Recent conference participation/organization:
Panel organization “Eco-mediating Indigeneities: Arts, Spiritual Practices, and Community Resilience in the Anthropocene Asia,” and paper presentation “Queering Mythistories as Decolonial Practices: On Visual and Performance Arts from An Emerging Austronesian Indigenocene” ASLE + AESS 2023 Conference, Portland, Oregon, 9-13 July 2023.
Paper presentation “Natureculture and Supernature: Fluidity, Entanglement, and Ecospiritual Loss in Ban Mae Ngud Amidst the Yuam/Salween River Diversion Project,” 2022 AAS-in-Asia Symposium, Chiang Mai University, Thailand, 2022.
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Paper presentation “Narrating Extinctions for Survivance: A Rice and Human Indigenes’ Perspective from Mao Chenyu’s Moving Image Works,” The 2nd International Environmental Humanities Conference, Cappadocia University, Turkey, 2022.
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Panel organization “Art, Ecology, and Contested Indigeneity” and paper presentation “Cosmological Fabrics of Relations: Vecik From Within to Beyond the Tjavadran World,” Art and Critical Ecologies: Multiscalar Engagements Conference, Taiwan National University of The Arts and City University of Hong Kong, 2021.
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