Mi You. Photo: Dorfmeyster I Can Wagener Mi You
Mi You is a curator and a professor of Art and Economies at the University of Kassel / documenta Institut. Her academic interests lie in new and historical materialism and performance philosophy, as well as the history, political theory and philosophy of Eurasia. She also leads research on alternative value systems, the social value of art and ideological regroupings in art and culture. Previously, she was a research associate at the Academy of Media Arts Cologne (2014-2021), where she explored the use of Silk Roads as a figuration for anti-nationalist, de-centralised and nomadic imageries.
You has curated exhibitions and performative programmes at Asian Culture Center in Gwangju, South Korea, Ulaanbaatar International Media Art Festival, Mongolia (2016), Zarya Center for Contemporary Art, Vladivostok (2018), and leads the longterm research/curatorial project Unmapping Eurasia (2018 – ) with Binna Choi. As a curator of Sci-(no)-Fi at the Academy of the Arts of the World, Cologne (2019) and of Lonely Vectors, at the Singapore Art Museum (2022), she explored the social impact of new technologies and ‘actionable speculations’.
She was one of the curators of 13th Shanghai Biennale (2020-2021). On the social front, she serves as chair of committee on Media Arts and Technology for the transnational NGO Common Action Forum. She was named one of the 40 under 40 of the Asia Pacific by the international art magazine Apollo in 2022. Together with David Garcia, she curated the exhibition Really? Art and Knowledge in Time of Crisis (2024) at Framer Framed.
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