Please join us for Ph.D. candidate, Christina Yuen Zi Chung's, defense of her dissertation titled “At the Seams of the World: Gender and Decoloniality in Hong Kong Contemporary Art.”

At the Seams of the World examines the overlooked relationship between gender and decoloniality in Hong Kong that is visualized through transcultural and translingual examinations of contemporary art. Countering the marginal status of gender-related discourse in Hong Kong, this project unearths its political centrality by relating gender to Hong Kong’s colonial conditions and articulates how contemporary art visualizes decolonial practices of gender—illuminating alternative horizons for a city at the heart of global, competing capitalisms.

Committee Members: 

• Sasha Su-Ling Welland (Chair) - GWSS
• Kemi Adeyemi (Member) - GWSS
• Cricket Keating (Member) - GWSS
• Kim England (GSR) - Geography