Invitation to the Defense of Serena Lee, PhD in Practice, October 10, 2024, 4pm | Academy of Fine Arts Vienna

Dear All,

the PhD-in-Practice program of the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna kindly invites you to the defense of Serena Lee´s dissertation project How the line curves. The Examination Panel is made up of: Moira Hille (chair), Renate Lorenz and Anette Baldauf (supervisors), Jiang Jiehong (external appraiser, School of Art, Birmingham City University).

Date: Thursday, October 10, 2024; 4 pm

The event will take place at Vereinigung bildender Künstlerinnen Österreichs (VBKÖ), 1010 Vienna, Austria, and online via Zoom. See Zoom link below.

How the line curves considers aesthesis through taijiquan, an internal martial art practised for both defence and nourishment. Taijiquan operates through the interplay of opposing forces — yinyang — as a form and strategy for circulating energy. Taken as a mode of aesthetic inquiry, taijiquan grounds the research question: what ways of knowing — and not-knowing — are possible by thinking through moving?

Please join us for the defense presentation.

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Serena Lee plays with different aesthetic modalities to consider relations of power, perception, and belonging. Serena’s artistic research often unfolds through embodied practices and collaborative processes, responsive to place, time, and others. Serena holds an MFA from the Piet Zwart Institute in Rotterdam, and an Associate Diploma in Piano Performance from the Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto.