Erin Li is a London-based curator currently working at YDP as Curator (Public Programmes and Residencies). Erin’s practice centres around liveness, from street dance and live art to fermentation cultures, transforming everyday relations and vulnerabilities into interdisciplinary projects. Her research manifested in Polyphonic Bodies, performances at Whitechapel Gallery, and Polyphonic Bodies II, a communal tasting co-curated with L. Sasha Gora. She contributed to Action, Gesture, Performance: Feminism, the Body and Abstraction (2023) and Out of the Margins: Performance in London's Institutions 1990s–2010s (2022). She was previously Curator at Delfina Foundation, London. Before relocating to London, she was Associate Curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary, Hong Kong, where she curated Sipping Dreams (2023), emo gym (2022) and co-curated trust & confusion: Tino Sehgal (2021).
Erin Li was the 2022 Asymmetry Curatorial Fellow at Whitechapel Gallery.