Public Programme – Asymmetry

Asymmetry’s Public Programme engages both the arts community and broader publics through thoughtfully conceived, thought-provoking formats and projects worldwide. We host talks, screenings, workshops, reading groups, performances, seminars, and symposia that reflect our core activities and mission to foreground Chinese and Sinophone perspectives within a global context, often working closely with major partner institutions. Programmes feature contributions from our fellows alongside collaborating artists, scholars, writers, and curators from around the world.

AnnouncementAsymmetry HQ09.2025Our Library Now Open by Appointment

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ2 – 4.30pm, 5 – 6.30pm, 21.06.2025Librarians-in-ResidenceTowards a Shared Language: Magazine-making as Response

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ01.05 – 12.06.2025Interest, Disinterest, and the Space BetweenOrganised by Weitian Liu

Talk & PanelOnline via Zoom3 – 5pm BST, 27.05.2025Librarians-in-ResidenceReading Asia, Elsewhere: Diasporic Reading Rooms in ActionOrganised by te editions

Publication LaunchAsymmetry HQ7 – 9pm, 21.05.2025Librarians-in-ResidenceGet Low, Like Bumpkin Cannon 土炮之书Ye Funa and Lu Williams

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 14.05.2025The Intelligence of VanishingOrganised by Yuhang Zhang

SymposiumThe Courtauld Institute of Art9.30am – 6.45pm, 25.04.2025The Asymmetry International Symposium 2025Subsea Signals: Maritime Histories, Digital Currents

WorkshopVarious Locations13.02 – 19.03.2025Field NotesFostering Learning and Networks for Aspiring Curators

OutcomeChisenhale Gallery7 – 8pm, 11.02.2025Documenting Time, Countering FormOrganised by Rachel Be-Yun Wang

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 7.30pm, 24.01.2025Who’s in TownHyunjin Kim

OutcomeAsymmetry HQ2 – 4.30pm, 07.12.2024Build Where You Stand 就地取材: Symposium and Vitrine PresentationOrganised by Li Jia

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 7.30pm, 08.11.2024Who’s in TownMichelle Yeonho Hyun

OutcomeAsymmetry HQ31.07 – 27.09.2024A Diachronic Record: Expanded ProgrammeOrganised by Rachel Be-Yun Wang

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 9pm, 26.07.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceFan の Blog 迷妹の部屋Organised by Ye Funa

Lecture PerformanceAsymmetry HQ2 – 5.30pm, 13.07.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceA Wanderer on the Science IslandLecture Performance and Printmaking WorkshopZijie

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ16.05 – 12.07.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceOpen-Lib, Open-Co Organised by Ye Funa

OutcomeAsymmetry HQ2 – 4.30pm, 06.07.2024A Diachronic RecordA Screening, Discussion, and Vitrine Presentation on ‘Writing the Time Lag’ (2014–ongoing) by Lee Tzu TungCurated by Rachel Be-Yun Wang

Publication LaunchAsymmetry HQ7 – 9.30pm, 02.07.2024Bitterness & WitEugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Sanja Grozdanić and Mira Mattar

Public ProgrammeCCA Berlin24.04 – 29.06.2024Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien: Offerings for EscalantePublic ProgrammeOrganised by Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ5 – 8pm, 14.06.2024Copying and Creation: Film Screening and Panel Discussion on Dafen VillageFeixuan Xu, Tian Jiayi and Kiki Tianqi Yu

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ3 – 5pm, 18.05.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceCopy Machine:DIY Culture, Zine Making, and the Underground Music Scene

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art11.03 – 14.05.20242024 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series on Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone ArtCritical Habitats

Talk & PanelThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 7.30pm, 14.05.20242024 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldOfferings for EscalanteEnzo Camacho and Ami Lien

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 10.05.2024Give/Given/VoiceJason Wee, Will Harris and Nicholas Y. H. Wong

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 7.30pm, 30.04.20242024 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldEspionage and Disposable Lives Lee Kai Chung

Assembly Fondazione Querini Stampalia10am – 6pm, 20.04.2024A World of Many WorldsOne Day Assembly2024 Venice Biennale

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 05.04.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceAnartist Book Club: Art, Labour, and ‘tǔ’Ye Funa, Feixuan Xu and Linzhi Zhang

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 8pm, 11.03.20242024 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldSolar Wheels and Other StoriesShen Xin

PerformanceAsymmetry HQDoor opens at 6.30pm, 23.02.2024A Night of Performances:Body Tongue, Chúc Mừng Năm Mới!bones tan jones and Will Pham

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 31.01 – 21.02.20242024 Screening ProgrammeFellows’ Choice

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 7.30pm, 15.12.2023Topography of Decay: Panel DiscussionHang Li, Yuhang Zhang and Shuyi Cao

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ1 – 5pm, 08 – 13.12.2023Topography of Decay: Open LibraryHang Li, Yuhang Zhang and Shuyi Cao

SymposiumThe Courtauld Institute of Art9.30am – 5pm, 01.12.20232023 Asymmetry International SymposiumMapping Intimacy Across Art, Science and Ecology

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ3 – 5PM, 25.11.2023This Is China of a Particular Sort, I Do Not KnowYuhang Zhang and Clare Chun-yu Liu

Public ProgrammeOne Marylebone10am – 1pm, 13.10.2023Asymmetry Rituals: Day Rituals2023 Frieze LondonUte Meta Bauer , Michele Chu and Amiko Li

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ4 – 6pm, 16.09.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceFlitting, Missing, Landing…An Afternoon Reading With Minying Huang , Travis Jeppesen and Eric Yip

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ20.04 – 31.08.2023Librarians-in-Residence2023 Open Library

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ29.06 – 06.08.2023Summer ProgrammeGrowing Gills

Lecture PerformanceAsymmetry HQ3 – 5pm, 06.08.2023Summer Programme VPenumbra Asks Umbra: Digital Feminism in Post-rice Bunny China

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6.30 – 8.30pm, 27.07.2023The Stream and Its Source IIReading Group

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ12 – 7.45pm, 22.07.2023The Stream and Its Source IScreening

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ3 – 5pm, 15.07.2023Summer Programme IV(re)productive Subjects: Collectivity and Economy

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ12 – 7pm, 08.07.2023Summer Programme III:All Day Film Screening and Conversations

WorkshopAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 07.07.2023Summer Programme IIOne Night Stand With Lo Ting

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 29.06.2023Summer Programme INot Your Remittance Heroine!

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 21.06.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceReading Group #3 Wildness Part II

Lecture PerformanceAsymmetry HQ6pm, 16.06.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceCoral Dictionary Vol.1: 2019-2022Performative Lecture and Conversation With Alvin Li Chang Yuchen

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 30.05.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceReading Group #2 Wildness Part I

Public ProgrammeThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 7.30pm, 23.05.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldIntimate SystemsTrevor Yeung and Qu Chang

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art10.02 – 23.05.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldEnergies of Attachment: Rethinking Intimacy in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Art

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 8pm, 05.05.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldPorous BeingsLotus Laurie Kang and Xiaowen Zhu

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 20.04.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceReading Group #1 Pleasure

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ2 – 3.30pm, 16.04.2023Proxy Conference: Collaborative Research Through Gameplay

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6.30 – 8pm, 09.03.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldGravity Is the Momentum of Feeling: Xin Liu and Joni Zhu

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 8pm, 10.02.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldIntimate TetheringsAlvin Li and Xinyi Cheng

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 13.12.2022Animals Far and NearFeixuan Xu and Rosie Benn

OutcomeWhitechapel Gallery2 – 5pm GMT, 10.12.2022Polyphonic BodiesCurated by Erin Li

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ12 – 3.00pm BST, 14.10.2022Open Afternoon Asymmetry HQ Frieze 2022

Publication LaunchChisenhale Gallery2 – 5.30pm BST, 21.05.2022Kua 跨 01: Re-integrationPublication LaunchYu’an Huang

Talk & PanelGoldsmiths, University of London17.02.2022Live Zoom Q&AIn conversation with Weitian Liu and Irit Rogoff

Talk & PanelChisenhale Gallery18.09.2021Local/Translocal: the Reproduction of Technological PromiseRoundtableOrganised by Hang Li

Talk & PanelChisenhale Gallery1 – 2.30pm BST, 18.09.2021Local/Translocal: the Reproduction of Technological PromisePanelOrganised by Hang Li

Talk & PanelChisenhale Gallery3 – 4.30pm BST, 21.08.2021Curating Online:Sustaining Technological Optimism or Approximating Alternatives? Hang Li

Talk & Panel3 – 4.30PM BST, 21.08.2021Curating Online: Sustaining Technological Optimism or Approximating Alternatives? Hang Li, With Raqs Media Collective, Shama Khanna and Donatella Della RattaOrganised by Hang Li