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Liang-Kai Yu studies contemporary art, critical museology, and queer theory, focusing on queer artistic and curatorial productions. He is currently conducting on-site ethnographic research at the Van Abbemuseum, where his doctoral research explores contemporary LGBT+ curatorial artistic interventions in Dutch and international art museums. By interpreting contract workers, curators, activists, and artists as 'critical visitors', his project raises questions regarding the intersectional politics of displaying sexual minorities and the ways of collecting marginalized histories, as well as artistic fabulations within the framework of deviant museology. This project is funded by the Dutch Research Council (NWO) and is part of a consortium research project titled 'The Critical Visitor: Heritage Sector Crossroads: A Way of Intersectionality.' In 2020, he co-curated a queer feminist exhibition titled 不適者生存? Survival Exceptional at the Tainan Art Museum in Taiwan. Yu's areas of expertise intersect queer theory, contemporary art, and museum/curatorial studies, with research topics including queer feminist curatorship, intersectional politics of display, museum colonialism, the white cube, race, and sexuality in performance and installation art. He holds a MA in Arts and Culture: Museum Collections (cum laude) from Leiden University, a MA from the Graduate Institute of Studies in Visual Culture at National Yang-Ming University, and a BA from the College of Commerce at National Chengchi University.
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