Curatorial
Beijing East Village: Intimate Collaborations
Tate Modern, London
through fall 2023
Liquid Ground 溢流地
Liquid Ground is a proposal for a future commons, still up in the air, that will one day be underwater.
Co-conceived with Julian Junyuan Feng
Para Site, Hong Kong Fall 2021
UCCA Dune, Beidaihe Fall 2022
Artforum | ArtReview | Ocula
Breathing Through Skin
Antenna Space, Shanghai
Nov 7 2020—Jan 16 2021
with works by Mire Lee, Yong Xiang Li, Pedro Neves Marques, and Issy Wood
Heichi | Artforum China | Artviewer | Contemporary Art Daily | Mousse
We Came to Linger
A gift, an homage, a love letter to Club ALL, Shanghai
May 13—14, 2020
With works by: Julian Charrière, Tianzhuo Chen 陈天灼, Club Ate (Justin Shoulder & Bhenji Ra), Ip Wai Lung 葉惠龍, Shuang Li 李爽, Shuwei Liu 刘树伟, Victoria Sin, Kenneth Tam, and Tao Hui 陶辉
Read exhibition booklet here
D.E.E.P. in The Mesh
chi K11 art museum, Shanghai
8 Nov—13 Dec 2019
D.E.E.P. (Disaster of Extra Epic Proportios), a moving image installation section within The Mesh, an exhibition co-presented by chi K11 art museum and NOWNESS. With works by: Julian Charrière & Julius von Bismarck, Chia-Wei Hsu, Liu Shiyuan, Nicholas Mangan, Farah Al Qasimi, Timur Si-Qin, Tao Hui, Yi Xin Tong, and Zheng Yuan
Read exhibition booklet here
In My Room
Antenna Space, Shanghai
24 May—7 July 2019
Taking its title from the late French writer Guillaume Dustan’s 1996 erotic classic, Dans ma Chambre, In My Room considers autofiction as a queer form, and explores its permutation in contemporary practices. With works by Jes Fan, Lewis Hammond, Juan Antonio Olivares, Tao Hui, Evelyn Taocheng Wang, and Bruno Zhu.
Ephemera
Tainted Love
A reading of my autofiction Tainted Love on a bench outside the Portman Ritz Hotel in Shanghai, China, 20 Feb 2020. On the occasion of Nancy Lupo’s exhibition “Scripts for the Pageant” at MOCA San Diego.
A revised version of this text was published under the new title, “My Own Private Whorantine,” in Spike.
Notes from a Bench
A reading of my autofiction Teeth on Pershing Square, Los Angeles, on Oct 5 2019, as part of the program alongside Nancy Lupo’s new sculptural ensemble, Open Mouth, in CURRENT LA Public Art Triennial
Alvin Li 