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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]
[We Ate a Sheep. We Lost the Plot: Shu Lea Cheang, Lauren Cornell, and Tiffany Sia in conversation]
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.
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*
Special Screenings in relation to Connecting Bodies: Asian Women Artists Shu Lea Cheang, MMCA, Seoul, Korea.
*
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.