Ms Andrea Liu

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Andrea Liu is a New York/Paris/Berlin-based visual art & performance critic (and visual artist). She went to Yale University (undergrad) and received art fellowship awards from Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Award Fellowship at Banff Centre, Zurich University of the Arts, MFAH & Center for Experimental Museology (V-A-C Foundation). She wrote art criticism for e-flux, Social Text, Art Margins, Afterimage, New Museum, Contemporaneity: Historical Presence in Visual Culture, Movement Research Journal, & wrote catalogue/exhibition essays for visual artists Georgia Sagri (Deste Foundation), Kandis Williams (Soft Colony), Aditya Mandayam (Kunstverein Munich), Bob Gramsma (Edition Fink).

I often write about Post-Soviet Intermedia (within visual culture), such as:  https://contemporaneity.pitt.edu/ojs/contemporaneity/article/view/346/332  or https://schoolofcommons.org/making-public/issues/2023/post-structuralist-fun-pack, and often work with Russian (or Russophone) visual artists: https://edcat.net/events/between-the-fugue-and-the-origin/ and was a Fellow at “Museum in a Liminal State” Center for Experimental Museology (i.e. founded by acclaimed Russian visual artist Arseny Zhilyaev: https://redmuseum.church/en/museum-in-a-liminal-state-winners and my essays of visual art criticism have been translated to Russian: https://redmuseum.church/objective-spectacle-s-clap  

I often examine the distinction between postmodernism as: (A) a value-neutral indicator of a time period (B) an aesthetic category (postmodern architecture, postmodern literature) (C) a prognosis of a cultural condition (D) a postmodernism of resistance, an oppositional epistemology that destabilized the grand narratives of Enlightenment (E) a cynical ahistorical “anything goes” postmodernism disemboweled of any element of critical resistance, caricaturized as a byword for “moral relativism”. In The Anti-Aesthetic (1983), art critic Hal Foster draws a stark distinction between a postmodernism of reaction versus a “postmodernism of resistance.” I explored this in my project “Post-Structuralist Fun Pack” during my fellowship at Zurich University of the Arts: https://schoolofcommons.org/program/labs/post-structuralist-fun-pack

Artist Fellowships/Art Awards/Artists Residencies I Received:

• Zurich University of the Arts (2023-25): https://schoolofcommons.org/program/labs/post-structuralist-fun-pack
• V-A-C Foundation (Center for Experimental Museology) (2021-22) https://redmuseum.church/en/museum-in-a-liminal-state-winners
• "Counterhegemony: Art in a Social Context" - Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius: https://www.e-flux.com/announcements/107432/call-for-applications-counterhegemony-art-in-a-social-context-artist-fellowship-program
• Banff Centre - Jarislowsky Outstanding Artist Award Fellowship (2019)

Where I Gave Talks/Lectures/Panels:

(1) ”Weaponization of Soviet History” Conference, The Courtauld Institute, London, UK - June 2025 (p. 4): https://courtauld.ac.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/05/The-Weaponisation-of-History-Final-programme-3rd-June.pdf

(2) University of Southern California Film & Media Studies Dept., Los Angeles, California – Oct. 2025: https://www.zdcusc.org/2025-speed

(3) ”Enthusiasm: An Affect?” Conference, Rutgers University German Department - April 2025: https://rutgers.campuslabs.com/engage/event/11272604

(4) Carnegie Mellon “Languages, Cultures, & Applied Linguistics” Dept - March 2025 (p. 11): https://drive.google.com/file/d/1F5nUhy8EmGaAdQ1gyJDWNAwyutpET-xI/view?pli=1

(5) Université Paris 8 - Vincennes Saint-Denis (Laboratoire Arts des Images et Art Contemporain [Laboratory of Contemporary Art & Images]), Paris, France - April 2023 (p.3): https://residences.hypotheses.org/files/2023/03/LES-Re%CC%81sidences-dartistes-programme.pdf

(6) “Sticky Films” Conference, Goethe Universität, Frankfurt, Germany - May 2023:  https://calenda.org/1076264?lang=en

(7) “What is Academic Work?” Center for Humanities CUNY, New York City - April 2023: https://centerforthehumanities.org/event/where-is-academic-work/

(8)”Sonic Ties” Conference at University of Music & Performing Arts Vienna, Austria - August 2023:  https://www.isa-music.org/de/isaresearch/abstracts/?abstract=6083

(9) “Computation, Communication & Aesthetics” Conference at Bauhaus-Universität Weimar, Germany - July 2023: https://2023.xcoax.org/

(10) Goldsmiths (Univ. of London) Association for Art History ”Digital Amateurism and the Platformisation of Art” Panel, London, UK - March 2022:  https://eu.eventscloud.com/website/5317/sessions-by-day/digital-amateurism-and-the-platformisation-of-art/

(11) “Productive Image Interference: Sigmar Polke Festival” Kunstakademie Düsseldorf, Germany - Nov. 2021: https://www.anna-polke-stiftung.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/KH_Polke_Programm_105x210mm_EN_Web.pdf

(12)  Sorbonne VALE (Voix Anglophones Littérature et Esthétique [Anglophone Voices of Literature & Aesthetics]), Paris, France - June 2021: https://vale.sorbonne-universite.fr/?tribe_events=coll-vale-la-reception-4-5-fevrier-2021

(13) CARPA 7—Colloquium on Artistic Research in Performing Arts, University of the Arts, Helsinki - August, 2021: https://web.uniarts.fi/carpa/sites.uniarts.fi/web/carpa/carpa7/programme.html

(14) CTM Festival (Transmediale) Berlin - Jan 2021: https://www.ctm-festival.de/festival-2021/programme/schedule-jan/event/research-networking-day-1-posthuman-sounds  

(15) Yale University Whitney Humanities Center, Film & Media Studies Conference - February 2020: https://campuspress.yale.edu/accidentscontingencies/conference-schedule/ 

(16) "Activism & Protest in Europe,” Graduate Centre for Europe, University of Birmingham, UK - May 2020: https://gcfebham.wordpress.com/2020-conference/

(17) PIND (Punk Is Not Dead), Le Centre d’études Supérieures de la Renaissance, Paris, France – Dec. 2022: https://pind.univ-tours.fr/wp-content/uploads/2022/12/Programme.pdf  ”

(18) “Slow Symposium,” Mass MOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art) - November 2019 (p. 5): https://www.mcla.edu/_pdfs/administration/academic-affairs/minds-eye/Slow-Symposium-Final-Program.pdf

(19) “Pirate Care Conference,” Centre for Post-Digital Cultures, Coventry University, UK - June 2019: https://pirate.care/blog/2019/05/19/pirate-care-2-cpc-conference/

(20) ) “On Criticism” Conference, Royal Holloway - Royal Central School of Drama and Speech, University of London, UK – Nov. 2018: https://www.royalholloway.ac.uk/research-and-education/departments-and-schools/drama-theatre-and-dance/events/platform-symposium-on-criticism/

(21) Printed Matter, New York City - Feb 2018: https://www.printedmatter.org/programs/events/664

(22) “Cannibalism: Artistic Research Will Eat Itself” Conference, Society for Artistic Research - 2018 (p. 41): https://sarconference2018.org/ARWEI.Booklet.pdf

(23) Center for Book Arts, Los Angeles - 2018: https://centerforbookarts.org/cabc-2021-conference#CABC-NY-2017

(24) College Art Association, New York/Los Angeles - 2018 (p. 28):                    https://www.collegeart.org/pdf/call-for-participation.pdf 

(25) New York University Performance Studies/Women & Performance: A Journal of Feminist Theory Conference: “The Affect Factory” – New York City: https://affectfactory.blogspot.com/