For the new episode of “Mai Ling Speaks”, we invite three artists, Serena Lee, Aya Momose, and Hyeji Nam, who are exploring the somatic practice and its relationality to movement, sound, and technology, touching on power dynamics, recuperation, and trance-like state.
How can we explore pleasure and resistance under precarious situations within artistic practices? By gathering and sharing together with the guests, “Mai Ling Speaks #9” connects and activates voices to foster communal ways of being, becoming, living, resisting, and surviving.

Serena Lee
Serena Lee works via polyphony to map how things come together and apart. She plays across cinematic and martial practices, tracing dao through aesthesis. Born and raised in tkaronto/Toronto, Canada, Serena collaborates and practices close to home and internationally; she is currently based in Vienna as a PhD-in-Practice candidate at the Akademie der bildenden Künste Wien.
http://www.serenalee.com/

Aya Momose
By employing a self-referential methodology that reconsiders the structure of moving image via moving image itself, Momose’s work deals with the multi-layered complexity of communication with the others. Focusing on bodies appearing in moving images, her recent practice further questions sexuality and gender. Momose received an MFA in Oil Painting from Musashino Art University in 2013. She lives and works in Tokyo.
http://ayamomose.com/

Hyeji Nam
Vienna-based Korean artist Hyeji Nam is a composer, musician and visual artist whose work spans around performance art, experimental music and digital media. She mainly works with multimedia projects which deal with subjects like body, mind and technology.
https://hyejinam.org/

“Mai Ling Speaks” was initiated in 2020 as an online series of talks and interviews connecting the active voices that are dealing with the escalation of anti-Asian xenophobia triggered by the outbreak of Covid-19. It is a subversive format aiming to diverge the discourse towards the individuals and communities affected while, at the same time, creating a discursive platform that bridges artistic practices and theory by inviting artists, activists, scholars and cultural workers. ​After several lockdowns in Vienna, “Mai Ling Speaks” has moved to offline space.

This event is supported by BMKÖS