YEN YI LEE

Such an honor to join the presidential dinner celebrating our strong and prosperous Taiwan-United State friendship with President Tsai in New York! Thanks to Taipei Cultural Center of TECO in New York and @moc_taiwan 🥰🇹🇼🇺🇸💞

⚡️⚡️⚡️moving fragments: visualizing your inner message- Feminist poster workshop is coming to Rotterdam at your friendly neighbor Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam) on labours day 📚✂️✨ · Date: Friday 1 May 2026
· Time: 14:00–17:00
· Location: Varia (Gouwstraat 3, Rotterdam)
· To Join: Register via email to [email protected] with subject title [Moving Fragments] //// Moving Fragments: Visualising your inner message through collage making is a feminist poster making workshop by Yen Yi Lee （member of @afsar_asianfeministstudio ). The workshop began as a response to Asia Art Archive’s 2005 exhibition, In Our Own Backyards that featured South Asian artists, Lala Rukh and Sheba Chhachhi. During the workshop, Yen Yi Lee will give a visual analysis presentation about two South Asian artists, Lala Rukhand Sheba Chhachhi, who have not only created artworks but developed tools and sites to mobilise women in their communities to assert their right through visual languages of their own. This will be followed by a collage making activity where participants create their own posters, and culminate with a moment of sharing of the collage and reflections. Basic materials will be provided but participants are encourage to bring their own printed materials, papers, and magazines that can be used for collage. There will be snacks. This event falls within Varia’s Counter-Coloniality Seed research thread and is supported by the Creative Industries Fund NL, and also sponsored by National Culture and Arts Foundation. Special thanks to Chaeyoung @tsjeejong , Asian feminist studio of art and research, Asia Art Archive Hong Kong and Maryam Rahman @_maryam_rahman from Estate of Lala Rukh.

Shifting Frames: Taiwan in Berlin 🧸 Special additional film added for Berlin screening 💕 Taiwan’s layered colonial history has produced multiple, often conflicting ways of understanding the past. As part of The Currency Lab – Law & Order, originally exhibited in Filmfest Dresden, with a special addtional artist film added to the screening. This screening programme curated by Yen Yi Lee brings together six moving-image works by Taiwanese artists, who grew up in the post-Martial Law era, during Taiwan’s process of democratization, this program examines how everyday people negotiate history from perspectives outside political power, and how these negotiations are carried within bodies and memories, shaping the ways people live, endure, and work to build stable lives. Positioning Taiwan’s experience within an international context, the project speaks to global concerns around democracy, inclusion, and social stability in times of uncertainty. 🩵Screening artists’ films: ☉Liang Hsuan Chen, Taipei Hours (2017, 21 mins 16 secs) ☉Kagaw Omin, The Mother’s Voice (2025, 15 mins 51 secs) ☉Esther Yi-Chun Lin, Mental Alertness and Diagramming: Atmospheric (2023, 7 mins 33 secs) ☉Tzu-An Wu, Nocturnes of New Formosa Vol.1: Taste of Exile (2026, 10 mins 47 secs) ☉Cetus Chin-Yun Kuo, Cartographer (2020–2022, 28 mins 32 secs) ☉Li Hui Huang, Abandoning the Garden (2022, 19 mins 3 secs) 🗺️Screening Information Venue: Impression Taiwan (Prinzenallee 60 13359 Berlin) Date: April 22, 2026 Time: 4PM – 6:30 PM Ticket: this is a ticketed screening, due to venue capacity, please purchase tickets in advance. In collaboration with Impression Taiwan Special thanks to Musquiqui Chihying(artist), Sybille Neumeyer(artist) Cover photo: Taipei Hours (2017) by Liang Hsuan Chen. Courtesy of the artist.

Filmfest Dresden - International Short Film Festival Screening Program of The Currency Lab – Law and Order Shifting Frames: Taiwan | curator: Yen Yi Lee 📍 GEH8, Gehestraße 8, 01127 Dresden 🗓 April 17, 2026, 19:00–21:00 🎟 Admission：€5 🔗 Tickets & Program Info: link in bio Democracy is not a story of singular heroes — it is a collective process shaped by many voices. Shifting Frames: Taiwan will be presented on April 17, 2026 at GEH8, Dresden, as part of the 38th Filmfest Dresden. Curated by Yen Yi Lee, the program brings together five Taiwanese artists whose works navigate Taiwan's layered colonial histories and democratic transformations through the perspectives of women, Indigenous peoples, migrants, and queer communities. Artists 1. 陳亮璇 Chen Liang Hsuan｜Taipei Hours 2. 林怡君 Esther Yi-Chun Lin｜Mental Alertness and Diagramming: Atmosphere 3. 吳梓安 Tzu-An Wu｜Nocturnes of New Formosa Vol.1: Taste of Exile 4. Kagaw Omin｜The Mother's Voice 5. 郭敬耘 Cetus Chin-Yun Kuo｜Cartographer This programme is supported by the National Culture and Arts Foundation, TSMC Education & Culture Foundation, and the Taipei Representative Office in Germany (media support). . . 〈流變框架：臺灣〉｜Shifting Frames: Taiwan 第38屆德勒斯登國際短片影展 × 策展放映單元 📍 GEH8, Gehestraße 8, 01127 Dresden 🗓 2026年4月17日 19:00–21:00 🎟 票價：€5 🔗 購票與詳細資訊：link in bio 民主不是單一英雄的敘事，而是由無數聲音共同形塑的集體歷程。 〈流變框架：臺灣〉將於2026年4月17日在德國德勒斯登GEH8空間放映，作為第38屆德勒斯登國際短片影展節目之一。本單元由策展人李彥儀策劃，集結五位臺灣青年藝術家的影像作品，從女性、原住民、移民與酷兒等不同社群視角出發，探問臺灣多重殖民歷史與民主轉型的複雜現實。 參展藝術家 1. 陳亮璇 Chen Liang Hsuan｜〈臺北時光〉 2. 林怡君 Esther Yi-Chun Lin｜〈醒腦與製圖：氣層〉 3. 吳梓安 Tzu-An Wu｜〈新寶島夜曲之逐留汁味〉 4. Kagaw Omin｜〈母語〉 5. 郭敬耘 Cetus Chin-Yun Kuo｜〈製圖者〉 本計畫獲國家文化藝術基金會國際交流補助、台積電文教基金會支持，並獲駐德國臺北代表處提供媒體支持。 #ShiftingFramesTaiwan #FilmfestDresden #Dresden #TaiwanFilm #ShortFilm

Shifting Frames: Taiwan in Filmfest Dresden 2026 #ffdd26 ! Taiwan’s layered colonial history has produced multiple, often conflicting ways of understanding the past. As part of The Currency Lab – Law & Order, this screening programme curated by Yen Yi Lee brings together five moving-image works by Taiwanese artists, who grew up in the post-Martial Law era, during Taiwan’s process of democratization, this program examines how everyday people negotiate history from perspectives outside political power, and how these negotiations are carried within bodies and memories, shaping the ways people live, endure, and work to build stable lives. Positioning Taiwan’s experience within an international context, the project speaks to global concerns around democracy, inclusion, and social stability in times of uncertainty. 🩵Screening artists’ films: • Liang Hsuan Chen, Taipei Hours (2017, 21 mins 16 secs) • Kagaw Omin, The Mother’s Voice (2025, 15 mins 51 secs) • Esther Yi-Chun Lin, Mental Alertness and Diagramming: Atmospheric (2023, 7 mins 33 secs) • Tzu-An Wu, Nocturnes of New Formosa Vol.1: Taste of Exile (2026, 10 mins 47 secs) • Cetus Chin-Yun Kuo, Cartographer (2020–2022, 28 mins 32 secs) 🗺️Screening Information Filmfest Dresden @filmfestdresden Venue: GEH8 @geh8kunstraum Date: April 17, 2026 Time: 7:00 PM – 9:00 PM Supported by: National Culture and Arts Foundation and TSMC Education & Culture Foundation Cover photo: Taipei Hours (2017) by Liang Hsuan Chen. Courtesy of the artist.

今天上午（2026/3/9）參與了由衛武營所舉辦的〈臺灣表演藝術進軍北美市場攻略：國際年會實戰X經紀制度分享〉活動，對於表演藝術圈的共同支持與分享感到非常的佩服，每個分享的人眼睛都閃閃發光，還有看到紐文中心，以及駐外單位的加入與經驗分享，還有觀察，都非常的寶貴。因為獲益良多，我會後簡單整理了幾個自己特別有共鳴的takeway，跟大家分享。 This morning I participated in the event “Strategies for Entering the North American Market for Taiwanese Performing Arts: International Conference Practice × Agency System Sharing,” organized by National Kaohsiung Center for the Arts (Weiwuying). I was truly impressed by the spirit of mutual support and openness within the performing arts community. Everyone who shared spoke with such enthusiasm and passion. It was also very valuable to hear perspectives and observations from Taiwan Cultural Center in New York and other overseas cultural offices. Because I gained so much from the event, I briefly organized a few takeaways that particularly resonated with me and would like to share them with everyone.

𓇽event𓇽 MOVING FRAGMENTS: Visualising Your Inner Voice Through Poster-Making A big thank you to everyone who joined this poster-making workshop facilitated by curator Yen Yi Lee @_notesoncurating at the Asia Art Archive! It was truly inspiring to witness each of you shine through your ideas. Thanks @asiaartarchive @ozgeersoy @manling_lily @rebecca_hlt for your warmest hosting 💗 Yen Yi Lee’s workshop is supported by Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government and National Culture and Arts Foundation. Check out more information about AAA’s current exhibition “In Our Own Backyard “ ➡️ .hk/en/programmes/programmes/in-our-own-backyard 📻Also AFSAR’s radio station “Moving Hums” is waiting for you 👀 ➡️/movinghums

RePosted @asiaartarchive 【Visualise Your Inner Voice Through Poster-Making】 Join us for a poster-making workshop facilitated by curator Yen Yi Lee from AFSAR (Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research). @_notesoncurating The workshop dialogues with Lala Rukh and Sheba Chhachhi’s posters on display in AAA’s current exhibition “In Our Own Backyard.” Participants explore the instrumental role of poster-making on mobilising and creating reproducible visual language for feminist histories around Asia. The event is free and open to the public with fifteen spots available on a first-come, first-served basis. Register now via our link in bio! Yen Yi Lee’s workshop is supported by Department of Cultural Affairs, Taipei City Government and National Culture and Arts Foundation. — Image 1: Poster collaged by Lala Rukh at a screen printing workshop organised by Simorgh Women’s Resource and Publication Centre, 1987–88. Courtesy of the Estate of Lala Rukh. Image 2: Portrait of Yen Yi Lee, 2022. Courtesy of Yen Yi Lee. Photo: James Lin.

𓇽moving hums𓇽 💜The second episode of Moving Hums <Say yes to your inner voice> edited by Yen Yi Lee is out! You can listen it from AFSAR spotify channel: /episode/37f6SXHxC8B9mpG6vkxubd?si=-dRFGWv1QuyTEiGXg977dA&nd=1&dlsi=a88d9e0ffeb64e42 (link in bio) 💜About AFSAR Radio Moving Hums: Resonating with Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh whose creative expressions were shaped by their political engagement and grassroots activism, AFSAR Radio or Moving Hums presents a series of audio episodes and on site performances. This project will bring together a playlist of protest songs, voice memos, field recordings, interviews, and readings of stories/letters/poetry. 💜About the exhibition: Asia Art Archive’s exhibition, In Our Own Backyard, explores the creative impulses and forms of gathering within the women’s movements in South Asia from the 1980s onward. Engaging with the personal archives of artists Sheba Chhachhi and Lala Rukh—who played vital roles as organisers and documenters—the exhibition showcases their archival materials and artworks alongside contributions from a diverse community of feminist practitioners and organisations in the region. @asiaartarchive @asiaartarchiveinindia 💜Yen Yi Lee explores the intersections of failure, risk management, and trust through curatorial research and writing. She curates exhibitions, designs immersive events, and organizes participatory workshops that engage audiences in experiential dialogues. As the founder and editor-in-chief of HAGAI 花開, she fosters creative discourse through art writing and publication. She recently curated CURRENT/Y (Taipei, 2022), co-curated Taipei Digital Art Festival (Taipei, 2020), and co-founded Synergy Festival (Taipei, 2022), integrating exhibitions, performances, and collective experiences. @_notesoncurating 💜Graphic by @christina_yuna_ko @tsjeejong 💜Sound mixed by @coco____

𓇽discord study𓇽 𝐦𝐚𝐜𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐬𝐨𝐯𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐭𝐲 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐚 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐧𝐞𝐭𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐤𝐢𝐧𝐠 (book description) What is “planetary thinking” today? Arguing that a new approach is urgently needed, Yuk Hui develops a future-oriented mode of political thought that encompasses the unprecedented global challenges we are confronting: the rise of artificial intelligence, the ecological crisis, and intensifying geopolitical conflicts. Machine and Sovereignty starts with three premises. The first affirms the necessity of developing a new language of coexistence that surpasses the limits of nation-states and their variations; the second recognizes that political forms, including the polis, empire, and the state, are technological phenomena, which Lewis Mumford terms “megamachines.” The third suggests that a particular political form is legitimated and rationalized by a corresponding political epistemology. The planetary thinking that this book sketches departs from the opposition between mechanism and organism, which characterized modern thought, to understand the epistemological foundations of Hegel’s political state and Schmitt’s Großraum and their particular ways of conceiving the question of sovereignty. Through this reconstruction, Hui exposes the limits of the state and reflects on a new theoretical matrix based on the interrelated concepts of biodiversity, noodiversity, and technodiversity. Arguing that we are facing the limit of modernity, of the eschatological view of history, of globalization, and of the human, Hui conceives necessary new epistemological and technological frameworks for understanding and rising to the crises of our present and our future. 📚𝐌𝐚𝐢𝐧 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐲 𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥: machine and sovereignty for a planetary thinking, Yuk Hui ★𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐭𝐨 𝐌𝐞𝐞𝐭: AFSAR discord “machine and sovereignty“ voice channel (AFSAR discord link in bio) ★𝐇𝐨𝐰 𝐨𝐟𝐭𝐞𝐧, 𝐖𝐡𝐞𝐧: Once every week, Start from 16th April, 10am CET/ 9am London/ 4pm Taipei ★𝐂𝐥𝐮𝐛 𝐎𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐨𝐫: Musquiqui Chihying, Jooyoung Hwang, Yen Yi Lee, Sun Park, Mooni Perry 🧚𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐝𝐞𝐬𝐢𝐠𝐧𝐞𝐝 𝐛𝐲 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐡𝐲𝐞𝐨𝐤 𝐒𝐡𝐢𝐧 @gongchoon

𓇽exhibition𓇽 Repost from @asiaartarchive 【Announcing AAA’s upcoming March exhibition】 We are thrilled to present “In Our Own Backyard,” a new exhibition for Hong Kong’s art month, that explores the creative impulses and forms of gathering within the women’s movements in South Asia from the 1980s onward, through the archives of artists Sheba Chhachhi (b. 1958) and Lala Rukh (1948–2017)—who played vital roles as organisers and documenters. Opening on Thursday, 20 March, the exhibition showcases the artists’ extensive photo documentation, capturing small-scale workshops, seminars, street actions, as well as regional and international gatherings. Displayed alongside three artworks by Chhachhi and Rukh, ephemeral materials such as posters, booklets, and songs articulate demands for gender justice, highlighting how feminist practitioners claimed the means of production and proposed new representations of the female subject. 📻𝐅𝐮𝐫𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐢𝐧𝐯𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚𝐧 𝐅𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐀𝐫𝐭 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 (𝐀𝐅𝐒𝐀𝐑), 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐦𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐫𝐲 𝐜𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐯𝐢𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐚𝐥 𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐭𝐟𝐨𝐫𝐦 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐟𝐫𝐨𝐦 𝐚𝐜𝐫𝐨𝐬𝐬 𝐀𝐬𝐢𝐚 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐢𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐢𝐚𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐫𝐚𝐬, 𝐭𝐨 𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐨𝐧𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐩𝐥𝐚𝐲. 𝐑𝐞𝐠𝐢𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐮𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐞𝐬, 𝐬𝐡𝐢𝐟𝐭𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐝𝐞𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐬 𝐢𝐧 𝐟𝐞𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐢𝐬𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐬𝐜𝐨𝐮𝐫𝐬𝐞𝐬, 𝐀𝐅𝐒𝐀𝐑 𝐦𝐞𝐦𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭 𝐌𝐨𝐯𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐇𝐮𝐦𝐬 (𝟐𝟎𝟐𝟓), 𝐚𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐞 𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐨 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐮𝐧𝐟𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐬 𝐭𝐡𝐫𝐨𝐮𝐠𝐡𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐞𝐱𝐡𝐢𝐛𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧, 𝐟𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐬𝐨𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐢𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰𝐬, 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐟𝐢𝐞𝐥𝐝 𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐨𝐫𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬, 𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐢𝐧 𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐭𝐞 𝐠𝐚𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐬. The working group members of “Moving Hums“ are: Chaeyoung Kim, Christina Yuna Ko, Eugene Hannah Park, Mooni Perry, Sun Park, Yen Yi Lee @tsjeejong @christina_yuna_ko @eugenehannahpark @mooniperry @coco____ @_notesoncurating More information about “Moving Hums“: /movinghums/ (Also in Bio)

Always a pleasure to attend Taiwan Environmental Lighting Award hosted by Coretronic Art foundation! Thanks for having me 😊❤️🫶🏻