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Shu Lea Cheang
Vitae2025
shulea@mauvaiscontact.info
01
* Entering 2025 - Snow crash
* Virus Becoming (2022) at
FUTURE FANTASIES: INTIMACY AND FICTION, part of Hyper Functional, Ultra Healthy series at Somerset House Studios, London.
02
* An interview with
Berlin Art Link.
* KI$$ KI$$
at Haus der Kunst, Munich.
[invitation - opening 13/02/2025][introduction film]
[Shu Lea Cheang’s Art of Hacking]
hyperallergic, 07/2025.
[Shu Lea Cheang Rewires the Future in Kiss Kiss Kill Kill]
dcene, 08/2025.
03
* Hagay Dreaming at
Tate Modern, part of Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections, London.
[A Youngish Perspective review]
* Join a panel talk with Tishan Hsu and Lawrence Lek on
What are artists learning from tech and AI today?
at Art Basel Hong Kong.
04
* Virus Becoming (2022) showing at Milano Art Week's
Each and Every Gesture hosted by Istituto Svizzero and Mousse magaznine.
*In the publication of
VITAMIN V - Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art, published by Phaidon Press.
* RADIOTOPIA goes to Taiwan. A TOOLKIT OF CARE initiative
co-presented with apo33 (Nantes, France) and STWST
(Linz, Austria).
Signal+ camp at C-Lab Taiwan in association with Lacking Sound Festival.
All Performance streamed by p-node, Paris.
[Art Touch review].
05
* Publication of
Informatics of Domination by Duke Press.
* Filming Fisting Club EP2 in Berlin Wesstudio.
* Participating at
Taipei Dandai - exhibiting Uttering (2023, 36min loop)
in Pulling the Plug - Taiwanese Artists Exhibition; join the talk on Global Indigeneity
[FB posting]
; in the booth of TAEX (London) with Virus Becoming (2022, 6m30s).
* Special Screening - FRESH KILL at Uplink Tokyo.
* A dinner date with Tetsuo Kogawa in Tokyo. [Tetsuo Kogawa Writings]
06
* Showing UKI & I.K.U. in conjunction with KI$$ KI$$
exhibition at Haus der Kunst at Theatiner Filmkunst in Munich.
07
* Keynote "2X<l2Xl> My dinner date with Tetsuo Kogawa in Akihabara, Tokyo, May 17, 2025",
xCoAX 2025 - 13th Conference on Computation, Communication, Aesthetics & X, Dundee, Scotland.
*
Third Nature: On Shu Lea Cheang’s Film UKI and Nature’s Infestations of Technology by Matthew Fuller, published at
Sage Journals.
* REBORN in CODE, 美麗佳人Art Talk, July edition.
08
* Scripting
LOVER LOVE for production in Tucson, Arizona, September - October 2025.
09
* FRESH KILL launch on Criterion Channel
Rediscoveries and Restorations.
*
RED PILL (2021) and Virus Becoming (2022)
at
GLOBAL FACISMS at HKW, Berlin.
* Guest speaker at
NYU Visiting Artist Lectures series, New York.
* Join exhibition
On the Origins of the 21st Century
or the Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography
at Kunstverein in Hamburg.
* Join
17(Joy) exhibition
#3 SEASONS IN THE SUN Schleifmühlgasse 17, Vienna.
[joy3_postcards]
* Production (september 22 - October 10)
LOVER LOVE, Tucson, Arizona.
10
*
ORTX, Solo exhibition at
Contemporary Art Center (CAC), Quito, Ecuator.
* Join exhibition
TOMORROWS - FOLDING, FLEXING AND EXPANDING, Palazzo del Capitanio, Verona Italy.
*
FISTING CLUB EP2 premieres &
Open Audition for Fisting Club EP3, part of
Adult Industry Forum at
Porn Film Festival Berlin.
11
* FRESH KILL screening at
LAB 4 WEIRD FUTURES,
Matadero Medialab, Madrid.
* Join exhibition,
I AM NOT AN ORACLE, IMPAKT- Center for Media Culture, Utrecht, Netherlands.
* Join international Forum, GAYA 24x24 organized by
Elug Art Corner
at
HuaLien Art Museum, Taiwan.
* Opening KI$$ KI$$ at
Ludwig Forum, Aachen, Germany.
12
* Join the inception event of digital cultures entitled AC|DC - Aesthetics and Critique of Digital Cultures, a research platform at
Academy of Fine Arts, Vienna.
* Join
Queer Migration symposium organized by
Kobe Migration Research Centre.