Denise Kwan





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︎︎︎Writing


  1. Essays
  2. Experimental & Editorial
  3. Writing on Art


︎︎︎In-Conversations




︎︎︎Talks




︎︎︎Teaching





About Denise Kwan

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Dr. Denise Kwan (she/her) is an artist-writer, researcher and educator of Chinese heritage and raised in Wales. Her interest in crafting alternative and speculative cultural narratives informs her working methods as she collaborates with communities and artists and this work informs her academic and experimental writing.



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If you would like to discuss a future collaboration, project, speaking engagement or writing commission, please email denise_kwan09@hotmail.com
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TALKS



Guest speaker at ‘Decolonising Chinese Studies Seminar Series’ at University of Manchester    |    2023 

Chair and Speaker for online roundtable for ‘Crafting research methods of joy-making in East and Southeast Asian communities’    |    2023
Conference paper at The Hepworth Centre, Wakefield titled ‘Countering the Hyper-visibility of Chinese Aesthetics in Britain through the Object Stories of British Chinese Women’ for conference entitled Differencing the Methods of Researching and Archiving Women’s Sculptural Practices    |    2022

Conference academic presentation paper “A Zine of Collective Care: An Analysis” at Zine and Self-Publishing in Chinese Cultures conference organised by Dr. Carwyn Morris    |    2022

Conference academic presentation paper at Association of Critical Heritage Studies 5th Biennial Conference, London    |    2020

Chair Discussant for Camden People’s Theatre titled ‘Does British Chinese Identity Exist?’    |    2019

In-conversation with director Kiki Yu for the film ‘China’s Van Gogh’ at Wimbledon UAL    |    2019

BBC Radio North East interview on British Chinese women research    |    2017

Conference paper “An Intergenerational Analysis of First and Second Generation British Chinese Women Through Materiality and Art Making” at International Symposium on Transnational Migration and Qiaoxiang Studies from a Gendered Vantage Point, organised by Prof. Liu Jin, Wuyi University: Jiangmen    |    2018

Conference paper “Materiality, Embodiment for Second Generation British Chinese Women” Embodied Senses organised by Dr. Georgia Wall at Warwick University: London    |    2018

Conference paper “The Object-Stories of British Chinese Women: A Methodological View” HOMElands Annual Lecture organised by Dr. Cangbai Wang at University of Westminster: London    |    2018

Poster Presentation ‘Dressing Practices of Second Generation British Chinese women for Language Acts and Worldmaking, Senate House, London    |    2018

Conference paper “Material Objects of Second Generation Women: An In-depth Case Study” Language Acts and Worldmaking Conference organised by Prof. Debra Kelly at Senate House: London    |    2018

Academic presentation titled ‘Visual ethnography and Migratory Chinese Female Subjectivities’ for Embodied Senses at Warwick University    |    2017

Chair discussant for architectural art panel discussion for CIVIC Exhibition, Swansea    |    2014

Guest gallery talk at Oriel Myrddin, Carmarthen discussing collaboration of Karla Black and Karin Ruggaber    |    2012


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