June 15,2013
269 Kent Ave, Brooklyn
Yau Ching is an independent film/videomaker who has made more than fifteen films and videos, including Ho Yuk (Let’s Love Hong Kong), I’m Starving, Diasporama: Dead Air (Silver Award, Hong Kong Independent Film and Video Awards), The Ideal/Na(rra)tion (Best 20, International Video Art Prize, Germany) and Flow (Special Jury Prize, Image Forum, Japan).
Known in Hong Kong as a queer activist, Yau Ching is a founding member of Nutong Xueshe in Hong Kong, a LBGTIQ organization for cultural advocacy and public education, and serves as Board Member for Midnight Blue, a male sex workers’ support network in China and Hong Kong. She was also the co-founder and curator of “Hong Kong’s Sex Workers’ Film Festival” (organized by Ziteng), “The 1st Hong Kong Tongzhi Art Exhibition” (organized by Nutong Xueshe), “Taiwan Asian Lesbian Film Festival” (organized by G/SRAT), “Girl Play: Hong Kong Women’s Performance Art Festival” and “She Makes Movies, Too: Hong Kong Women’s Film Festival” (both organized by Hong Kong Arts Centre). In the 1990s, she has worked for Gay Men’s Health Crisis and Dyke TV (New York).
Currently Associate Professor in Cultural Studies at Hong Kong Lingnan University, she is the author of seven books including Sexing Shadows: a study of representation of gender and sexuality in Hong Kong Cinema (Hong Kong Film Critics Society, 2005), Sexual Politics (edited) (Cosmos Books, 2006), As Normal As Possible: Negotiating Sexuality and Gender in Hong Kong and China (edited) (HKU Press, 2009), and The Impossible Home (Hong Kong: Youth Literary Press, 2000) which won the Hong Kong Chinese Literary Biennial Award. Recipient of grants from Astraea Foundation, Jerome Foundation, Japan Foundation, New York Foundation for the Arts, Asian Cultural Council, and Rockefeller Humanities Fellowship, she has recently been awarded a Lucas Artist-in-residence Fellowship at Montalvo Arts Center in California in 2013-2014.
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