Repatriate:00

Repatriate:00 is a debut of Kalen Wing Ki Lee’s artistic practice on notion and experience of emotional migration in the thick of movements of body, desire, human geography, sovereignty and ideology through visual and textual critique of identity politics.  Through image and text, sound and speech, and micro-narratives from personal archive, public sphere and in-situ experiences, Kalen would like to speak to you a double-colonised hence aspiring decolonial personal call.

About the presenter

Kalen Wing Ki Lee is an independent curator, artist and researcher based in London and Hong Kong. His recent artistic and research interests include protest culture and disobedient imageries, queer politics and curatorial practice, and personal work troubled by emotional migration. He founded LOVE in 2021 to support public appearances of queer and queer-friendly artists and/to our communities.

Lee was formerly the Associate Dean, School of Creative Arts, and Acting Director, Academy of Visual Arts at Hong Kong Baptist University; and was engaged in the management board of the Shared Campus project to promote transcultural and international pedagogy, research and production established by world-leading art academies in the UK, Europe, Asia, and Australia. With Jennifer Dorothy Lee, they are co-editing Long March to Care, an in-depth companion volume in arts and activism in contemporary Sinophone.