Public Programme – Asymmetry

Asymmetry’s Public Programme engages both the arts community and broader publics through thoughtfully conceived, thought-provoking formats and projects worldwide. We host talks, screenings, workshops, reading groups, performances, seminars, and symposia that reflect our core activities and mission to foreground Chinese and Sinophone perspectives within a global context, often working closely with major partner institutions. Programmes feature contributions from our fellows alongside collaborating artists, scholars, writers, and curators from around the world.

WorkshopAsymmetry HQ03 – 05.2026Editor Wannabes’ ClubQilu Criticism

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art28.10.2025 – 12.02.20262025 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldPsychedelic Reason

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 7.30pm, 12.02.20262025 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldWing above Wing, Flame above Flame 翼覆翼，光覆光: The Pataphysics of Sensing Penny Yiou Peng

WorkshopAsymmetry HQ2 – 5pm, 31.01.2026Errant ListeningThe House of Onomatopoeia: A Sound Workshop, Lecture and PerformanceYang Yu-Chiao

WorkshopAsymmetry HQ22 – 24.01.2026Archiving in Community: Workshops in Collaboration with An Việt Archives

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 17.12.2025Winter Curatorial GatheringPresentations and Panel by Our Fellows and Scholars

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 15.12.2025Errant ListeningSounding Spaces: Documenting Sound Practice in Chinese Mainland and Hong Kong Since the 1990s Edward Sanderson and Zhongwei (Mabu) Li

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 7.30pm, 25.11.20252025 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldThe power, the joy and the destruction: Journeys through ModernityRicardo Yui

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 7.30pm, 28.10.20252025 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldOn Parasocial Media: The Shoggoth and the SkeuomorphGary Zhexi Zhang

AnnouncementAsymmetry HQ09.2025Our Library Now Open by Appointment

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ2 – 4.30pm, 5 – 6.30pm, 21.06.2025Librarians-in-ResidenceTowards a Shared Language: Magazine-making as Response

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ01.05 – 12.06.2025Interest, Disinterest, and the Space BetweenOrganised by Weitian Liu

Talk & PanelOnline via Zoom3 – 5pm BST, 27.05.2025Librarians-in-ResidenceReading Asia, Elsewhere: Diasporic Reading Rooms in ActionOrganised by te editions

Publication LaunchAsymmetry HQ7 – 9pm, 21.05.2025Librarians-in-ResidenceGet Low, Like Bumpkin Cannon 土炮之书Ye Funa and Lu Williams

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 14.05.2025The Intelligence of VanishingOrganised by Yuhang Zhang

SymposiumThe Courtauld Institute of Art9.30am – 6.45pm, 25.04.20252025 Asymmetry International SymposiumSubsea Signals: Maritime Histories, Digital Currents

WorkshopVarious Locations13.02 – 19.03.2025Field NotesFostering Learning and Networks for Aspiring Curators

OutcomeChisenhale Gallery7 – 8pm, 11.02.2025Documenting Time, Countering FormOrganised by Rachel Be-Yun Wang

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 7.30pm, 24.01.2025Who’s in TownHyunjin Kim

OutcomeAsymmetry HQ2 – 4.30pm, 07.12.2024Build Where You Stand 就地取材: Symposium and Vitrine PresentationOrganised by Li Jia

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 7.30pm, 08.11.2024Who’s in TownMichelle Yeonho Hyun

OutcomeAsymmetry HQ31.07 – 27.09.2024A Diachronic Record: Expanded ProgrammeOrganised by Rachel Be-Yun Wang

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 9pm, 26.07.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceFan の Blog 迷妹の部屋Organised by Ye Funa

Lecture PerformanceAsymmetry HQ2 – 5.30pm, 13.07.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceA Wanderer on the Science IslandLecture Performance and Printmaking WorkshopZijie

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ16.05 – 12.07.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceOpen-Lib, Open-Co Organised by Ye Funa

OutcomeAsymmetry HQ2 – 4.30pm, 06.07.2024A Diachronic RecordA Screening, Discussion, and Vitrine Presentation on ‘Writing the Time Lag’ (2014–ongoing) by Lee Tzu TungCurated by Rachel Be-Yun Wang

Publication LaunchAsymmetry HQ7 – 9.30pm, 02.07.2024Bitterness & WitEugene Yiu Nam Cheung, Sanja Grozdanić and Mira Mattar

Public ProgrammeCCA Berlin24.04 – 29.06.2024Enzo Camacho and Ami Lien: Offerings for EscalantePublic ProgrammeOrganised by Eugene Yiu Nam Cheung

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ5 – 8pm, 14.06.2024Copying and Creation: Film Screening and Panel Discussion on Dafen VillageFeixuan Xu, Tian Jiayi and Kiki Tianqi Yu

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ3 – 5pm, 18.05.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceCopy Machine:DIY Culture, Zine Making, and the Underground Music Scene

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art11.03 – 14.05.20242024 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldCritical Habitats

Talk & PanelThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 7.30pm, 14.05.20242024 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldOfferings for EscalanteEnzo Camacho and Ami Lien

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 10.05.2024Give/Given/VoiceJason Wee, Will Harris and Nicholas Y. H. Wong

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 7.30pm, 30.04.20242024 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldEspionage and Disposable Lives Lee Kai Chung

Assembly Fondazione Querini Stampalia10am – 6pm, 20.04.2024A World of Many WorldsOne Day Assembly2024 Venice Biennale

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 05.04.2024Librarians-in-ResidenceAnartist Book Club: Art, Labour, and ‘tǔ’Ye Funa, Feixuan Xu and Linzhi Zhang

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 8pm, 11.03.20242024 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldSolar Wheels and Other StoriesShen Xin

PerformanceAsymmetry HQDoor opens at 6.30pm, 23.02.2024A Night of Performances:Body Tongue, Chúc Mừng Năm Mới!bones tan jones and Will Pham

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 31.01 – 21.02.20242024 Screening ProgrammeFellows’ Choice

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ6 – 7.30pm, 15.12.2023Topography of Decay: Panel DiscussionHang Li, Yuhang Zhang and Shuyi Cao

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ1 – 5pm, 08 – 13.12.2023Topography of Decay: Open LibraryHang Li, Yuhang Zhang and Shuyi Cao

SymposiumThe Courtauld Institute of Art9.30am – 5pm, 01.12.20232023 Asymmetry International SymposiumMapping Intimacy Across Art, Science and Ecology

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ3 – 5PM, 25.11.2023This Is China of a Particular Sort, I Do Not KnowYuhang Zhang and Clare Chun-yu Liu

Public ProgrammeOne Marylebone10am – 1pm, 13.10.2023Asymmetry Rituals: Day Rituals2023 Frieze LondonUte Meta Bauer, Michele Chu and Amiko Li

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ4 – 6pm, 16.09.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceFlitting, Missing, Landing…An Afternoon Reading With Minying Huang, Travis Jeppesen and Eric Yip

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ20.04 – 31.08.2023Librarians-in-Residence2023 Open Library

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ29.06 – 06.08.2023Summer ProgrammeGrowing Gills

Lecture PerformanceAsymmetry HQ3 – 5pm, 06.08.2023Summer Programme VPenumbra Asks Umbra: Digital Feminism in Post-rice Bunny China

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6.30 – 8.30pm, 27.07.2023The Stream and Its Source IIReading Group

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ12 – 7.45pm, 22.07.2023The Stream and Its Source IScreening

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ3 – 5pm, 15.07.2023Summer Programme IV(re)productive Subjects: Collectivity and Economy

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ12 – 7pm, 08.07.2023Summer Programme III:All Day Film Screening and Conversations

WorkshopAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 07.07.2023Summer Programme IIOne Night Stand With Lo Ting

ScreeningAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 29.06.2023Summer Programme INot Your Remittance Heroine!

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 21.06.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceReading Group #3 Wildness Part II

Lecture PerformanceAsymmetry HQ6pm, 16.06.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceCoral Dictionary Vol.1: 2019-2022Performative Lecture and Conversation With Alvin Li Chang Yuchen

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 30.05.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceReading Group #2 Wildness Part I

Public ProgrammeThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 7.30pm, 23.05.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldIntimate SystemsTrevor Yeung and Qu Chang

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art10.02 – 23.05.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldEnergies of Attachment: Rethinking Intimacy in Contemporary Chinese and Sinophone Art

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 8pm, 05.05.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldPorous BeingsLotus Laurie Kang and Xiaowen Zhu

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 20.04.2023Librarians-in-ResidenceReading Group #1 Pleasure

Talk & PanelAsymmetry HQ2 – 3.30pm, 16.04.2023Proxy Conference: Collaborative Research Through Gameplay

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6.30 – 8pm, 09.03.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldGravity Is the Momentum of Feeling: Xin Liu and Joni Zhu

LectureThe Courtauld Institute of Art6 – 8pm, 10.02.20232023 Asymmetry Distinguished Lecture Series at The CourtauldIntimate TetheringsAlvin Li and Xinyi Cheng

Reading GroupAsymmetry HQ6 – 8pm, 13.12.2022Animals Far and NearFeixuan Xu and Rosie Benn

OutcomeWhitechapel Gallery2 – 5pm GMT, 10.12.2022Polyphonic BodiesCurated by Erin Li

Public ProgrammeAsymmetry HQ12 – 3.00pm BST, 14.10.2022Open Afternoon Asymmetry HQ Frieze 2022

Publication LaunchChisenhale Gallery2 – 5.30pm BST, 21.05.2022Kua 跨 01: Re-integrationPublication LaunchYu’an Huang

Talk & PanelGoldsmiths, University of London17.02.2022Live Zoom Q&AIn conversation with Weitian Liu and Irit Rogoff

Talk & PanelChisenhale Gallery18.09.2021Local/Translocal: the Reproduction of Technological PromiseRoundtableOrganised by Hang Li

Talk & PanelChisenhale Gallery1 – 2.30pm BST, 18.09.2021Local/Translocal: the Reproduction of Technological PromisePanelOrganised by Hang Li

Talk & PanelChisenhale Gallery3 – 4.30pm BST, 21.08.2021Curating Online:Sustaining Technological Optimism or Approximating Alternatives? Hang Li

Talk & Panel3 – 4.30PM BST, 21.08.2021Curating Online: Sustaining Technological Optimism or Approximating Alternatives? Hang Li, With Raqs Media Collective, Shama Khanna and Donatella Della RattaOrganised by Hang Li