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Shu Lea Cheang
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01

* 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

02

* 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.

03

* 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.

04

* 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.

05

* 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

06

* 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

07

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

08

* 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.

09

* 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)

10

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]

11

* screening FRESH KILL with National Film and Television School students, Rio Cinema, London.
* UKI screening at Beijing Queer Film Festival, panel "Queer Futurism, Fantastic Nowness"
* FRESH KILL screening at THE NORM THEATRE, Belkin Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada.
* Production in Munich and Berlin for KI$$ KI$$ exhibition at Haus der Kunst, Munich, opening 14/02/2025.

12

* Hagay Dreaming rehearsal at Dowmung, Hualin and Taipei Performance Arts Center, Taipei for Van Cleef & Arpels Dance Reflections at Tate Modern, London, March 13-15, 2025.

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

RECENT ARTICLES

The Power of Art Lies in Hacking Technology and Science, Interview with Jana Putrle Srdić for Manufacturing Life Systems by Kersnikova Institute 2023.
Interview
Virus Becoming: Shu Lea Cheang on Viral Love Biohack published at Makery.info
On the Basis of Face: Biometric Art as Critical Practic its History and Politics Devon Schiller, Institute of network cultures
The Digiarchitextual Body – or: Brandon’s Corporeal Virtualities, Jeppe Ugelvig, Parallax 91 Routledge
sex, prison and digital surveillance, Ewen Chardronnet for MAKERY.
Society Has Become the Biggest Panopticon, Zach Blas for Frieze.
You are. They is. *neo ultra punk*, warehouse industries.
A Network of Spores, Jenna Sutela for transmediale Berlin.
Cyphersex pioneer: Shu Lea Cheang, Jill Blackmore Evans for Exberliner, Berlin.
Bodies are packaged made to be opened , B. Ruby Rich re-published at rhizome, New York
Compost your orgasm trash, Matthew Fuller for Mute, London.
BRANDON, Yin Ho for Rhizome, New York.
interactive mythologies, Maxence Grugier for Digitalarti Paris.
Shu Lea Cheang art reseau au femininsingulier @rtek for Culture Mobile Orange Paris

WORK SAMPLE

Portfolio 1992 -2023
Compiled presspack 2023
works 2000s - 2000 to 2014
works 1990s - 1990 to 1999
dated 2030 - published at a minima in 2005

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