Annie Jael KWAN

Profile

Annie Jael Kwan is a curator and researcher working at the intersection of contemporary art and activism, with an interest in interrogating the scope of South/East Asia both in the UK and internationally. Graduated with MA History of Art and Archaeology, SOAS, University of London in 2018. She contributes to Art Asia Pacific and ArtReview Asia, and teaches at Central St Martins, University of the Arts.


Recent activities
"Asia-Art-Activism" (an interdisciplinary, intergenerational research network) administer
"Being Present" performance program at Speech Acts, curation, Manchester Art Gallery, Manchester, 2019
"Southeast Asia Performance Collection" co-curation, Haus der Kunst, Munich, 2019
"UnAuthorised Medium" curation, Framer Framed, Amsterdam, 2018
"M.A.P. (Movement x Performance x Archive)" co-curation, Venice / London, 2017

"Taking Space for Asian Diaspora Narratives", contribution to the Paul Mellon Centre's British Art Studies Issue 13, 2019
"Archive," Southeast of Now: Directions in Modern and Contemporary Art in Asia Volume 3, Number 2 (2019), Co-editor

Awards
UK Live Art Sector's Diverse Actions Leadership Award (2019)
Outset/ACE Contemporary Art Research & Travel Award (2017)
Tate Research Centre Travel Fellowship (2017)

About works / performance

My curation and research are focused on contemporary and live art produced in relation to South / East Asia, with an interest in issues related to archives, histories, feminist, queer and alternative knowledges, collective practice and solidarity. Currently, I am exploring emergent and experimental methodologies in curation-as-organising, and am intending to explore further feminist/queer artistic practices that respond to and reconcile with planetary eco-anxieties and climate-tragedies.