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Shu Lea Cheang
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* Entering 2024 - Goree Island, Senegal.
* Screening FRESH KILL (1994), world premiere of remastered 4K DCP at RECLAIM, International Film Festival of Rotterdam.
* screening UKI at WdKA: Willem de Kooning Academy, Rotterdam, Netherland

* exhibiting LOVEME2030 (2005) at Amours V - Galerie espace temps, Paris.
* SHU LEA CHEANG AI UTTER published by 90antiope.
* Presenting Nature on Revolt - on Network and Networked collective sonic performance at AudioBlast Festival at APO33, Nantes.
* UTTER (2023) at State of Concept , Athens.

* Selected as 2024 LG Guggenheim award recipient. LG guggenheim art and technology initiative
reports - [Art Review] [The art newspaper] [Vogue Korea]
* Project Native Informant exhibition- Scifi New Queer Cinema, films by Shu Lea Cheang 1994 - 2023. [4 films - introduction] [4 films - trailer]
reviews - [frieze] [somethingcurated] [elephant.art] [art monthly]
* Exhibition at EEN FABRIEK Platform Voor Kunst & Industrie, Zeeland, Netherlands.
Bodies and Machines
* UKI screenings at Exhibition LUCID ECHOES Pylon Lab in cooperation with the HYBRID Biennale / EZK HELLERAU, Dresden, Germany.
* presentation at technodiversity - Beyond dataficationand digital colonialism organized by Zach Blas for The Gerrit Rietveld Academie at Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam.

* Screening FRESH KILL, New York/USA premiere of remastered brand new 35mm film print at BAM, Brooklyn. [FB-posting] reviews & interviews: [brooklyn rail review by Ayanna Dozier] [Spike Art interview by Patrick Kurth] [ Screen Slate interview by Ayanna Dozier]
* Screening UKI and FRESH KILL at Conversations at the Edge series at Gene Siskel Film Center, School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC).
* Radiotopia V.04 with p-node and STWST at La Generale, Paris.
* Exhibiting Virus Becoming (6:18, 2022) with Digital Reform TAEX at scoletta dei tiraoro e battioro, Venice Biennale 2024, Venice.
* Screening LOVEME2030 (2005) at Queer East, Glitch! Rewind, Barbican Center, London.

* Artist performative talk titled What the Heck: Shu Lea Cheang on Hacking Tactics, Virus Becoming, and Geek Farming [video documentation] at Guggenheim museum, New York.
* Honored at rhizome forever, New York.
* Scripting Hagay Dreaming full length theater version 2025 at Dowmung tribe, Hualien, Taiwan.
* As jury member for The 22nd Taishin Arts Award, Taipei, Taiwan.
juror talk:WHAT THE HECK「搞什麼」鄭淑麗談駭客謀略、變身病毒與技客田農ArtTouch report

* a special tribute to Aérea Negrot and love ones, It's Lover, Love - wake for lost ones at Xposed Queer Film Festival, Berlin.
* I.K.U. screening at TOM OF FINLAND PRESENTS ART SPEAKS THROUGH US, organized by The Queer Archive, Berlin.
* UKI screening at Hong Kong Pride Eaton HK.
* Virus Becoming exhibiting at ELEKTRA Biennale, Montreal.
* UKI screening at La Cinémathèque québécois, Montreal, Canada.
* Scifi New Queer Cinema (1994-2023) at BAM, Brooklyn, New York (June 21 -27) - [Mubi review by Katherine Franco]
* FRESH KILL (1994) screening at Through Her Vision: New Cinema Re-Imagined, TFAI (Taiwan Film and AudioVisual Institute). FB post
* UKI screening at breitenseer-lichtspiele, Vienna

* Screening LOVEME2030 and UTTER at RADICALE, SAINT-CIRQ-LAPOPIE, FRANCE.
* Screening FRESH KILL at Nitehawk cinema, Brookyn.

* Touring LIVING GAYA DREAMING HAGAY with Dondon Hounwn and Elug Art Corner - [STOP 1] Zürcher Theater Spektakel & Shedhalle, Zurich; [STOP 2] Tofu collective & Click, Denmark; [STOP 3]- Platforme10, Lausanne.
[interview with Zürcher Theater Spektakel]
* Shu Lea Cheang Takes Aim at Technologies of All Kinds to Explore Her Indefinable Identity, published at Art News, 8/22/2024.
* Screening UKI at Park Bio cinema, Copenhagen.

* Screening of FRESH KILL, An Opulence of Squander exhibition, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver.
* 10x10x10 - 10 works of STWST, 10 years of STWST48, 10 artists we know for STWST48x10, Linz.
* Participate in LEGACIES: ASIAN AMERICAN ART MOVEMENTS IN NEW YORK CITY (1969-2001), 80WSE, NYC.
* FLUIDØ showing at Electioneering film series, SINEMA TRANSTOPIA, Berlin.
* FRESH KILL (1994) remastered 35mm print roadtrip across USA. [press release]
Sept 13 - Brattle Theatre (Cambridge, Ma.) - co-presented by The Boston Underground Film Festival, Wicked Queer – Boston’s LGBTQ+ film festival, Strictly Brohibited
Sept 14 - Scribe Video Center@Ambler Theater (Ambler, Pa.)
Sept 15 - Pittsburgh Sound + Image@Harris Theater (Pittsburgh,Pa.) [Pittsburgh City Paper review]
Sept 16 - Wexner Center for the Arts (Columbus, Ohio) [Columbus Underground]
Sept 18 - Speed Art Museum (Louisville, Kentucky) [LEO weekly review]
Sept 19 - Athens Cine (Athens, Georgia)
Sept 20 – PATOIS (The New Orleans International Human Rights Film Festival) presents FRESH KILL at The Broad Theatre (New Orleans, Louisiana)
Sept 21 - Austin Film Society (Austin, Texas)- Jessica Buie interview for hyperreal film club
Sept 22 - Circle Cinema (Tulsa, Oklahoma)
Sept 24 - Ragtag Cinema (Columbia, Missouri)
Sept 25 - Music Box Theatre (Chicago, Illinois)
[interview with Joshua Minsoo Kim Tone Glow]
Sept 28 - Michigan Theater/Marquee Arts (Ann Arbor, Michigan) - interview with Neda Ulaby for NPR (broadcast on october 8, 2024)
Sept 30 – Stray Cat Film Center (Kansas City, Missouri)

The roadtrip continues-
Oct 02 - Film Streams’ Ruth Sokolof Theatre (Omaha, Nebraska)
Oct 05 - Guild Cinema (Albuquerque, New Mexico)- co-presented by WAY OUT WEST FILM FEST & ABQ SOCIAL LESBIAN NETWORK
Oct 06 – Southern Arizona Film Society@ Splinter Collective (Tucson, Arizona)
Oct 09 - Grand Illusion Cinema (Seattle, Wa.)
Oct 10 - Hollywood Theatre (Portland, Oregon)
Oct 12 - Roxie(San Francisco, Ca.)
Oct 13 - Mezzanine presents at Brain Dead Studios (Los Angeles, Ca.)
Oct 15 - Pollock Theatre, UC Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, Ca.)
* Oct 16, Screening UKI at Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive. [Katherine Franco on UKI]
* Oct 22, screening FRESH KILL at Now Instant Image Hall, LA, California.
* Oct 24, screening FRESH KILL at KASKcinema, Gent, Belgium.
* publication SHU LEA CHEANG Mousse 89, Fall 2024 [Art of The Interzone: Shu Lea Cheang by McKenzie Wark]

* Nov 6, screening FRESH KILL with National Film and Television School students, Rio Cinema, London.

SELECTED WORKS

UKI (2009-2023) a scifi viral ALT-reality cinema 2023 release [UKI 2009 - 2016]
HAGAY DREAMING (2022-) a Techno Fantasia guided theatre of Revival from Dowmong, Taiwan
SLEEP (since 2018) co-authored with Matthew Fuller
UNBORN0x9 (since 2016) with Future Baby Production initiated with Ewen Chardronnet
3x3x6 (2019) Venice Biennale 2019
GARLIC=RICHAIR (2019 remake) Rhizome.org
MYCELIUM NETWORK SOCIETY (since 2017) Post-Net nature's network
WONDERS WANDER (2017) a mobi web series for Madrid Pride 2017
FLUIDØ the movie (2017) a cypherpunk scifi movie
CRISISRUS by LAPTOPSRUS (2013) collective networked performance
SEEDS UNDERGROUND (2013) underground party for seed exchange
ACCIDENTAL LANDING (2013) accidentally the wind blows
COMPOSTING THE CITY (2012) adopt a composter
COMPOSTING THE NET (2012) biodegradable data trash
BABY WORK (2012) third part of Locker Baby Project (2001-2012)
CYCLEX (2012) make art make farm, Andes, New York
MOVINGFOREST (2008-2012) 12 hour distributed performance
LAPTOPSRUS (2009-2011) a woman live performers' network platform
AGLIOMANIA (2008-2010) garlic as post-crash currency
FISTING CLUB (2008) performance with Wendy DeLorme
MOBIOPERA (2007) collective cinema with mobilephones
BABY LOVE (2005) 2nd part of locker baby project
MILK (2004) 56K-bastard TV, Switzerland
TRAMJAM RUSH HOUR (2004 - 2007) by Mumbai Streaming Attack
TAKE2030 (2003-2006) hypermedia collective based in london
BURN (2003) burning pirated music CD
GARLIC=RICH AIR 2030 (2003) Limbo Zone, Venice Biennale 2003.
GARLIC=RICH AIR (2002) Challenge to the Fields, Creative Time, New York
KINGDOM OF PIRACY (2002-2006) curated netspace
I.K.U. (2000) Sundance Film Festival
BRANDON (1998-1999) Guggenheim Museum commission
[collection] [relaunch 2017] [netart anthology Rhizome]
BUY ONE GET ONE (1997) NTT[ICC] Biennale exhibition and collection [website recovered]

EARLY ONLINE ART

Expand, an interface (2001), commissioned by telepolis, restored in Java script (2022).
APT(2002), commissioned by xcult, shrink to fit
STOP(2002), commissioned by Amnesty International