Soft Rules: Amy Ching-Yan Lam Artist Talk

Soft Rules: Amy Ching-Yan Lam Artist Talk

3–5 pm, 7 June
Language: English

Moderated by Zian Chen

In the versatile work of Hong Kong–Canadian artist and poet Amy Ching-Yan Lam—spanning poetry, artists’ books, and exhibitions—artistry and humor arrive sideways, surfacing where they seem least supposed to exist.

In this talk, Lam will share projects from the past decade, including Looty Goes to Heaven (2023), a speculative novel and animation exploring British colonial extraction through the perspective of a Pekin dog stolen after the Opium Wars, and Acceptable Protest (2025), which satirizes the absurd logic of “approved” dissent on North American campuses following the Palestine encampments.

Moderated by her translator, Zian Chen, the conversation will explore how literary gestures fold into exhibition-making, and how institutional critique slips back into writing. After the talk, the speakers will open up an informal exchange with the audience on writing poetry, making artists’ books, and organizing exhibitions in Hong Kong.

Amy Ching-Yan Lam is an artist and writer born in Hong Kong who lives in Tkaronto/Toronto and Lenapehoking/Brooklyn. She works between what capitalism requires of life and what it feels like to be alive.

唔使講出口

林靜昕藝術家講座

6月7日｜下午3–5時

語言：英語

主持：陳璽安

若你初次接觸香港裔加拿大藝術家林靜昕的作品，你或許會被她輕描淡寫、彷彿在不應該有詩歌和藝術之處尋找到頭緒的靈巧所吸引。她寫詩、製作藝術家書，也做展覽，從日常遭遇中提煉幽默感，把它作為文學方法，也作為一種政治態度，回應那些塑造當代生活的制度與結構。

這場講座中，她將分享過去十年間的寫作與展覽實踐：包括《洛蒂上天堂》（2023）——一部以鴉片戰爭後被劫掠的京巴犬為視角，重新想像英殖民掠奪史的推想小說與動畫作品；近期的《抗議的容忍度》（2025）則拆解近年北美大學校園對學生活動重重設限的荒謬邏輯與界線。

講座將由她合作的譯者陳璽安主持對話，探討文學手法如何融入展覽創作，以及機制批判如何折疊回寫作，也歡迎大家在會後留下分享交流，關於在港寫詩，寫藝術家書，做展覽的二三事。

生於香港的林靜昕，現居多倫多（Tkaronto）和布魯克林（Lenapehoking）。她的創作遊走於「資本主義要求我們如何活」與「活著實際是甚麼感覺」之間。

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