Itinerant and occasional, in London.
Last updated 1104—26.
Despite better advice and fair warning, I went to an art school to study media theory. Then, I went back, to study contemporary art theory.
Somewhere between all that, I sent pleading letters about ‘gaining experience’ to every art gallery in London I knew. Of the two responses, one was from White Cube, where I’ve now been installed for the past decade.
Somewhere between all that, having organised numerous exhibitions and noting a crisis in the so-called ‘Curatorial’, I moved into research and editing instead. ‘How nice it’d be to be paid to read,’ I thought. I’d been part of Fieldnotes, a publishing project supporting ‘non-conforming creative practices’, for a few years by then, following that second time I went to Goldsmiths. Plus, I was doing spurts of theory-fiction writing as a freelancer for small galleries, artist monographs, that sorta thing – still am.
I also love to read and research widely and slowly. I’m forever part-way through some outrageous 1970s feminist literature, new poetry by a queer friend-of-a-friend, papers on institutional analysis, or a Barthes biography.
Ctrl+C Ctrl+V one-paragraph bio: ET is a writer, editor and occasional curator from Hong Kong, currently based in London. She dayjobs at White Cube, a leading contemporary art gallery, and nightjobs at Fieldnotes, a journal of experimental art and writing. At both, she works with artists and thinkers to create new forms and forums for critical engagement. Her research interests include psychoanalysis, media theory and performance writing. Her essays, short stories and poems have been published in anthologies, artist monographs and as exhibition text.