Wednesday Walkthrough with Annie Jael Kwan
Join us for a Wednesday Walkthrough – a gallery tour where artists, experts, researchers and academics give short talks in their field of expertise relating to the concepts explored in our current exhibition. This season, we are presenting Feels Strangely Good, Ya? - the first international institutional solo exhibition of the late Balinese artist I Gusti Ayu Kadek Murniasih “Murni”.
Murni (1966 – 2006, Bali) was a prolific and uncompromising artist whose vivid and acutely personal works emerged as an exploration of her subconsciousness, dreams and psyche, acting as a form of therapy or diary. Largely self-taught, Murni gained recognition in the 1990s for her striking depictions of female sexuality, addressing themes of pleasure, sex, power dynamics, trauma, and desire with humour, absurdity and unflinching honesty. Murni's fearless commitment to self-expression has cemented her reputation as one of the most transgressive and vital contemporary figures in Southeast Asian art, whose work continues to inspire others.
Join Annie Jael Kwan, an independent curator and researcher, with particular interest in archives, feminist, queer and alternative knowledge, collective relations, solidarity and radical spirituality, for a walkthrough exploring Feels Strangely Good, Ya? through the lens of her research and practice.
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This event will be held in the Galleries. Meet at Reception.
Speakers will use microphones.
This event is wheelchair accessible.
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Annie Jael Kwan is an independent curator and researcher based in London. Her practice is located at the intersection of contemporary art, cultural and pedagogical activism with an interest in archives, feminist, queer and alternative knowledge, collective relations, solidarity and radical spirituality.
She is the Director of Something Human, a curatorial initiative that launched the largest Southeast Asia Performance Collection in Europe at the Live Art Development Agency in 2017, where she also leads Asia-Art-Activism, which is an interdisciplinary and intergenerational network of artists, curators and academics investigating ‘Asia’, ‘art’ and ‘activism’ in the UK. She is the founding council member of Asia Forum for the contemporary arts of Global Asias. This was co-presented with the Bagri Foundation during the opening of the 59th Venice Biennale, and Asymmetry Art Foundation for the 60th Venice Biennale in 2024, and has since presented events in London, Lahore, and Rotterdam in collaboration with the Wereldmuseum.
Her curatorial projects include UnAuthorised Medium in 2018 at Framer Framed in the Netherlands, Future Ages Will Wonder, when she was the Curator-in-Residence at FACT in Liverpool (2020-2022), and Noguchi Resonances for the Barbican Center (2021). She was associate curator for Pera+Flora+Fauna, the collateral project for Perak, Malaysia programme advisor for the 12th Seoul Mediacity Biennale (2023), and is Curator of the Brent Biennial (2023-2025). She is a techne scholar at CREAM (Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media), University of Westminster. As co-editor, her publications include Asia-Art-Activism: Experiments in Care and Collective Disobedience(2022), Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia’s guest issues: Archives (2019), Pathways of Performativity (2022), and Thinking Collectives: Collective Thinking (2025)