Invisible Hours Project Apr 28, 2025

I invited Malaysian-born artist Yee I-Lann to speak at Invisible Hours because her work epitomises our show’s concerns with women’s unseen labour and time deprivation. As a leading artist from Sabah, Yee interrogates colonial and patriarchal power in Southeast Asia…. Continue Reading →

Lin Tianmiao’s practice literally weaves feminist critique into its materials. Her signature installations wrap household objects in thread, linking tradition and modernisation. As AWARE notes, “using thin threads, Lin interweaves gender awareness” with everyday sewing and weaving. In this way,… Continue Reading →

I evaluated each artist against three key criteria: embodied awareness (how their work engages the body and senses), spatio-temporal structure (how they shape and perceive time and space), and cultural-contextual fit (how their practice resonates with our themes of gendered… Continue Reading →

Paper Routes—Women to Watch 2020 translates paper’s materiality into commentary on hidden toil. As the curatorial project Invisible Hours asserts, time is a commodity that can be “squeezed and taken away“, and women’s private time is subsumed by “overtime work,… Continue Reading →

Jo Ho describes herself as an explorer of “digital corporeality”, dedicating her practice to studying the increasingly intertwined existence of the digital and physical body. Her work reveals how individuals in highly technological societies seek identity and time perception between… Continue Reading →

This week, together with Yinuo and Ruoyun, I co-organized a group visit to the Collective Gallery’s Jerwood Survey III exhibition., I revisited my notes from Week 7 on Maud Sulter’s You Are My Kindred Spirit. This prompted me to reflect… Continue Reading →

Professor Kirsteen Macdonald’s lecture this week offered a new perspective on a question I raised in Week 7: “How can we reconstruct female experiences that have been erased by time and history through archives and voice?” Hal Foster’s concept of… Continue Reading →

This week, I began to re-examine the audience segmentation of my curatorial project.My mentor reminded me that audience segmentation must be specific and precise, with particular attention to the intersection of gender and culture. Building meaningful connections between different audience… Continue Reading →

Recently, I revisited the historical activities of Womanifesto, a female art organisation in Thailand, particularly the retrospective exhibition “Archiving Womanifesto: An International Art Exchange, 1990s–Present” held by the Asian Art Archive (AAA) in Hong Kong in 2020. These materials have… Continue Reading →