JournalWhitechapel Gallery28.10.2022

Research Trip: Alternative Ways to Contemporaneity2022 Curatorial FellowErin Li

Erin Li

Erin Li is a London-based curator currently working at Delfina Foundation, where she is leading the delivery of residencies, exhibitions, and public programmes. Erin’s practice centres around liveness, from street dance and live art to fermentation cultures, transforming everyday relations and vulnerabilities into interdisciplinary projects. Her research manifested in Polyphonic Bodies, performances at Whitechapel Gallery, and Polyphonic Bodies II, a communal tasting co-curated with L. Sasha Gora. She contributed to Action, Gesture, Performance: Feminism, the Body and Abstraction (2023) and Out of the Margins: Performance in London's Institutions 1990s–2010s (2022). Previously Associate Curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, Erin curated Sipping Dreams (2023), emo gym (2022) and co-curated trust & confusion: Tino Sehgal (2021).

Erin Li was the 2022 Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at Whitechapel Gallery.

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