© 2020 CLARE CHUN-YU LIU
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Clare Chun-yu Liu 劉純聿 is an artist filmmaker and a PhD Candidate at Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University. Funded by the Vice-Chancellor Scholarship, Clare is currently undertaking a practice-based fine art PhD on re-interpreting chinoiserie from a perspective informed by postcolonial thinking and her personal context of coming from the Chinese diaspora and Taiwan. There are three case studies of cultural heritage sites and three artist films as part of the doctoral research. Outside of the PhD, she has been making moving image work on the Chinese diaspora informed by her familial background.
Email: clareliu.uk@gmail.com; chun-yu.liu@stu.mmu.ac.uk
PhD Research Profile: http://news.harts.online/postgraduates/chun-yu-liu-clare/
Education
2017~ PhD Practice-based Fine Art
Manchester School of art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
[working thesis title: Revisiting English Chinoiserie from the Perspective of
Postcolonialism: Embedding New Narratives into Cultural Heritage Sites
through Art Practice]
2015 MFA Fine Art
Wimbledon College of Arts, University of the Arts London, UK
2012 MA Art and Design Studio Practice
School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK
2010 BA English Literature
Soochow University, Taipei, Taiwan
Lecturing
2018-9 Associate Lecturer
Contextualising Practice: BA Filmmaking, Photography and Animation
Manchester School of art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
2019 Visiting Artist
Workshop at the Experimental Film Laboratory (4 March)
BA Film Production, Regent's University, UK
Teaching Qualification
Associate Fellowship with Higher Education Academy, UK
Presentations
2020 Opening up Spaces: Heterotopia as a Postcolonial Strategy
Winter Symposium, Nordic Summer University at Wrocław University, Poland
2019 Challenges and Experiences in Reinterpreting Cultural Heritage Sites
Contemporary Art in the Heritage Experience, Newcastle University, UK
2018 Self-representation in chinoiserie: an investigation
Decolonising the Self: Representations of the Self in Art Theory and Practice
across Cultures, SOAS, University of London, UK
Work on the Chinese and Southeast Asian Diasporas
Research/Sharing/Gathering, ‘Here’…’There” / East & Southeast Asia Diasporic
Act, Central Saint Martins University of the Arts London, London, UK [a
collaboration between Central Saint Martins and Asian/Pacific/American Institute
at New York University] [along with a student crit with BA Fine Art students from
across UAL]
2016/7 The Nationalists' relocation to Taiwan: staying, going and diaspora
• International History of East Asia Seminar, China Centre, University of Oxford,
Oxford, UK [along with screening of A love story: between the strait and A
complete story: between the strait)
• Engagement and Identity, American Association of Chinese Studies 2016
Conference, Pepperdine University, California, USA
• Joint East Asian Studies Conference, SOAS, University of London, London, UK
2016 Chinese diaspora, oral history and video art
Routes of Difference: Migration in Artistic, Academic and Media Discourses,
Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal
2016 Britain's New Town plan through artist moving image: the landscape of Milton
Keynes
Land Dialogues Conference:Interdisciplinary Research in Dialogue with Land,
Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, Australia
Publications
[Academic journal - peer reviewed]
2016 MK Boogie Woogie: Milton Keynes in six parts
Fusion Journal. Issue 10: LAND DIALOGUES: Interdisciplinary Research in
Dialogue with Land (ISSN 2201-7208)
[Exhibition catalogue]
2017 Closing the Distance
Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Australia (ISBN 978-0-9943919-4-0)
Professional Experience
2020 Conference responder, Call and Response - Research Student Presentations,
RCA, Greenwich University and the NAFAE network
2019-20 Mentor, Professional Mentoring Scheme, University of the Arts London, UK
2019 Panel Chair, Interdisciplinary Imaginations, Critical Confrontations: New Voices in
Postcolonial Studies Symposium, University of Leeds, UK
2018 Panel Chair, Creative Images Conference, University of Manchester, UK
Organizing Committee, 6th Annual Postgraduate Arts & Humanities Centre
Symposium, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK
Panel Chair, 10th Manchester Metropolitan Postgraduate Research Conference,
Manchester, UK
2014 Education Coordinator, Park 14, Wimbledon College of Arts, London, UK
Workshop Facilitator, October Gallery, London, UK
Grants/Scholarships
2020 Research Support Award, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
PAHC Research Degree Fund, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
2019 PAHC Research Degree Fund, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
Conference Fund, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
2018 PAHC Research Degree Fund, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
2017 Vice-Chancellor Scholarship, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK
2016 Junior Scholar Travel Grant, American Association of Chinese Studies, USA
2015 Travel Grant, Milton Keynes Community Foundation, UK
2012 Departmental Scholarship, School of the Arts, Loughborough University, UK
Awards and Residencies
2018 Creative Image: Ways of Seeing, Representing and Reshaping Reality, Visual
Research Network Residency, Yorkshire, UK
2016 Bloomberg New Contemporaries, London, UK – shortlisted
2015/6 Graduate Residency, Westbury Arts Centre, Milton Keynes, UK
2015 neo:artprize, Bolton, UK – finalist
Bloomberg New Contemporaries, London, UK – shortlisted.
Selected Screenings and Exhibitions
2019 DOBRA Festival Internacional de Cinema Experimental, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Filmfest Bremen, Bremen, Germany
Leiden International Short Film Experience, Leiden, the Netherlands
2018 Constellations: Screenings from the ‘archive’ and beyond, Asia-Art-Activism
Research Network, Raven Row, London, UK
The Research Stomach, KARST, Plymouth, UK
2017 3rd Minikino Film Week, International Short Film Festival Bali, Bali, Indonesia
Migration Film Festival, The Front, New Orleans, USA
Closing the Distance, Bundoora Homestead Art Centre, Melbourne, Australia
OverFlow, 23rd Annual Performance Studies International Conference,
Kampnagel, Hamburg, Germany
2016 Routes of Difference – Migration in Artistic, Academic and Media Discourses,
Goethe Institut, Lisbon, Portugal
Both Sides Now III: Final Frontiers, British Council Hong Kong, Hong Kong,
China; Boom Art Gallery Bar, Hong Kong, China; Oi!, Hong Kong, China; Fabrica,
Brighton, UK; Exeter Phoenix, Exeter, UK; Institute of Contemporary Arts,
London, UK; Phoenix Leicester, Leicester, UK; Taipei International Video Art
Exhibition,Taipei, Taiwan; Song Eun ArtSpace Seoul, Seoul, South Korea; Ray
Art Center Shanghai, Shanghai, China; Minsheng Art Museum Beijing, Beijing,
China; VAFA International Video Festival, Macau, China
Land Dialogues: Delegate Exhibition, HR Gallop Gallery, Charles Sturt University,
Wagga Wagga, Australia
Qifang Overseas Chinese Filmmakers Screening Touring Project - London
programme, various venues, China
Neo: artprize 2015, neo: gallery, Bolton, UK
Artist Video Screenings, Charing Cross Library, London, UK
2015 Art Parlour: On Tour, MK Gallery, Milton Keynes, UK
Chelsea Salon, Penarth Studios, London, UK
2014 UK Young Artist Leicester Festival, Leicester, UK
When Arts Meet, Jockey Club Creative Arts Centre, Hong Kong, China
2012 East Midlands Graduate Show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham, UK
Workshop Participation
2019 Interdisciplinary Autumn School - Asia and Europe: Discourse, Circulation and
Representation, Asien-Orient-Institut, Zürich University, Switzerland
Summer Academy Hordaland Kunstsenter, Bergen, Norway
2018 Artistic Research Will Eat Itself Research Workshop, Plymouth, UK
2016 Forum for Young Professionals Europe Lab, Zagreb; Vukovar, Croatia
Oberhausen Seminar: Exploring Contemporary Artists’ Moving Image Practice,
Oberhausen, Germany
2015/6 LUX London Critical Forum 15-16, London, UK
Interviews
2017 MFA Fine Art graduate Chun-yu Liu explores Chinese diaspora in A complete
story: between the strait, Wimbledon College of Arts Blog
2016 Artist Liu Chun-yu explores Chinese diaspora, China Information Center
2015 Chun-yu Liu, Stigmart VideoFocus Special Issue NKT
Collection
VIDEOTAGE Media Art Collection, Hong Kong, China