Film screening: Keren Cytter, Middle of Beyond
In conversation with Jen Liu and Kathy Noble

Jen Liu is a New York-based artist working in video, painting, performance, and sculpture/biomaterial centered on diasporic Asian experiences, postcolonial economies, feminist techno-biopolitics, and re-motivating archival objects. In her most recent work, she used genetic engineering and dark encryption to find alternative ways of preserving firsthand accounts of electronics workers - and in her videos, collaged scripts and custom AI language models are used to combine corporate and industrial publications with firsthand accounts of factory workers and labor activists. Liu is a recent recipient of the Hewlett 50 Arts Commission, Creative Capital, LACMA Art + Technology Lab, Cornell Tech \Art Award, and the Guggenheim Fellowship among others. She has presented work at MoMA, The Whitney Museum, The New Museum, Sculpture Center, Kunsthaus Zurich, Kunsthalle Wien, MUSAC Leon, KW Berlin, multiple Berlinale Forum Expanded exhibitions, Royal Academy and ICA in London, and was included in the 2019 Singapore and 2023 Taipei Biennials.

Kathy Noble is a curator and writer based in New York, currently working as Senior Curator at Performa. There she previously served as Senior Curator and Head of Curatorial Affairs to oversee the program and curated numerous commissions including Ed Atkins, Kevin Beasley, Ericka Beckman, Kia LaBeija, Paul Pfeiffer, Yvonne Rainer, Bunny Rogers, Tschabalala Self, and Samson Young. As Curator, Interdisciplinary, at Tate Modern she co-curated Tate Modern Live, The Long Weekend Festival, and Art in Action, the first program in The Tanks spaces, including Ei Arakawa, Tania Bruguera, Anthea Hamilton, Anne Teresa de Keersmaeker, Sung Hwan Kim, Rabih Mroué and Hito Steyerl, Haegue Yang, and Suzanne Lacy. In 2016 she launched the inaugural Art Night festival with the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, presenting ten site-specific projects at venues across Westminster including Koo Jeong A, Alexandra Bachzetsis, Joan Jonas and Jason Moran, Laure Prouvost, and Xu Zhen/MadeIn Company. She has published numerous essays in books and magazines such as Artforum, frieze, and Mousse Magazine.