Welcome
9.30–9.45am
Dr Feixuan Xu (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Keynote Lecture 1
9.45–10.45am
Eco Queer Intimacy, Dr Zheng Bo (City University of Hong Kong)
Break
10.45–11.00am
Panel A: Bonding with Land and Earth
11.00am–12.45pm
Chair: Dr Wenny Teo (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
- In the Distant Embrace of the Changbai Mountains: Drone as a Sentient Being, Mia Yu (Independent curator)
- From ‘Human Mine’ to ‘Energy Battle’: Extractivist Capitalism and Relationality in Post-Reform China, Dr Loretta Lou (Durham University)
- Soilkin: Relational Exercises with Soil and Stones, Dr Alexandra R. Toland (Bauhaus University Weimar)
Lunch
12.45–1.45pm
Panel B: Microbial, Vegetal and Animal Kin
1.45–3.30pm
Chair: Nick Yu (Asymmetry Art Foundation)
- Contemplating with Viruses, Pei-Ying Lin (Artist)
- Pious Intimacy, Dr Franklin Ginn (University of Bristol)
- Violent Intimacy: A Postcolonial Semiotics of Contamination in the Work of Jes Fan, Sophie Guo (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Break
3.30–3.50pm
Screening
3.50–4.10pm
羽化 (wings becoming), 2022, 6'20'', 16mm colour film, silent, Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien
Introduction by Michèle Ruo Yi Landolt (Asymmetry Art Foundation)
Keynote Lecture 2
4.15–5.15pm
Guddling About: An Intimate Artistic Practice with Rivers, Lakes, Drains, Puddles, Sewage Works, and Other Watery Bodies, Prof Minty Donald (University of Glasgow)
Closing Remark
5.15–5.30pm
Dr Feixuan Xu (The Courtauld Institute of Art)
Wine Reception
till 7.00pm