Shu Lea Cheang

  • Shu Lea Cheang’s practice combines artistic concerns with social issues, and is highly acclaimed as a leading figure in post-porn feminist art, becoming a crucial player that resonates with present-day subjects of queerness and trans discourse. She has worked in a variety of mediums—film, video, installation, web spaces—and her output is as varied as cyberspace itself. Cheang is considered a pioneer in media art, with work encompassing film, performance, net art, and public art. In her work she seeks to expose and disrupt the social, geographical, and political restrictions placed around issues of gender and sexual expression. Cheang draws on science-fiction narratives, but infuses them with her own visual and creative sensibilities, creating a genre of queer cinema that she terms eco-cybernoia (Fresh Kill, 1994), soft cyberpunk (IKU, 2000) and scifi-cypherpunk (Fluidø, 2017).

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Shu Lea Cheang’s practice combines artistic concerns with social issues, and is highly acclaimed as a leading figure in post-porn feminist art, becoming a crucial player that resonates with present-day subjects of queerness and trans discourse. She has worked in a variety of mediums—film, video, installation, web spaces—and her output is as varied as cyberspace itself. Cheang is considered a pioneer in media art, with work encompassing film, performance, net art, and public art. In her work she seeks to expose and disrupt the social, geographical, and political restrictions placed around issues of gender and sexual expression. Cheang draws on science-fiction narratives, but infuses them with her own visual and creative sensibilities, creating a genre of queer cinema that she terms eco-cybernoia (Fresh Kill, 1994), soft cyberpunk (IKU, 2000) and scifi-cypherpunk (Fluidø, 2017).