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Ka Lai Chan

Postdoctor

The Crafts and Fine Art Unit
Telephone
+46 31-786 30 68
+46 766-18 30 68
Mail
ka.lai.chan@gu.se
Visiting address
40530 Göteborg
Postal address
Kristinelundsgatan 6-8
Göteborg

Postdoctor

The Crafts and Fine Art Unit
Telephone
+46 31-786 30 68
+46 766-18 30 68
Mail
ka.lai.chan@gu.se
Visiting address
Kristinelundsgatan 6-8
Göteborg
Postal address
Box 131
40530 Göteborg

About Ka Lai Chan

I am a visual ethnographer, documentarian and educator. I am a Postdoctoral Researcher working on the ERC-funded artistic research project Things for Politics’ Sake: Aesthetic Objects and Social Change (ERC, THINGSTIGATE, 101041284, 2023-2028), led by artist/ researcher Dr Tintin Wulia.

My research focuses on art, activism and urban space; subjectivity and post-coloniality; and displacement and social justice. I specialise in arts-based and digital methods for transdisciplinary research and education.

I completed my practice-based PhD, entitled Artist-Activists in Protest Hong Kong (2018-2023), at Creative Agency Research Lab, Digital Ethnography Research Centre, and Care-full Design Lab at the College of Design and Social Context at RMIT University in Australia.

I was Lecturer at Hong Kong Academy for Performance Arts and Hong Kong Art School between 2012-2018.