RECENT INVITED TALKS, CONFERENCE PARTICIPATION AND PODCASTS
May 2024 [Accepted] Re-connecting with Trees in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art. In ‘From Forests to Heritage’, Aalto University, Finland.
Apr 2024 [Accepted] Transcultural Aesthetics and Agencies of Contemporary Japanese Art. In ‘Rethinking Transcultural Interactions in Visual Art’, University of Copenhagen, Denmark.
Apr 2024 [Accepted] Botanical mediations of Agro-Extractivism: (Counter-)Aesthetics of Violence in Contemporary Southeast Asian Art. In ‘The Aesthetics of Geopower: Imagining Planetary Histories and Hegemonies’, University of Amsterdam
Mar 2024 Public Art and Social Transformation. Carlos Garrido Castellano in Dialogue with Minna Valjakka. The Glucksman, University College Cork.
Mar 2024 Visual Creativity as Research. An Open Conversation with Minna Valjakka. At Cork Printmakers, Cork.
Mar 2024 Urban Encounters: Renegotiating Memoryscapes in East and Southeast Asia. University College Cork.
Jan 2024 Gendered reverberations: women, artistic practices, and resilience in the urban environment. Gender in the City course, Yale-NUS college, Singapore.
Dec 2023 Transcultural Conjunctions: The Politics of Identifications in Contemporary Japanese Art. In HKF and IIAS symposium, ‘New Perspectives on (the Presentation of) Japanese Art,’ Leiden.
Nov 2023 Artistic Diaspora: Creating for (Trans)National Rights of Existence. In Rethinking Art Historical Narratives and Canons, University of Helsinki.
Oct 2023 Sustaining Seashores: Contemporary Arts within and for Coastal Ecologies. In ‘Exploring An Urban Blue Humanities’ workshop at Environmental Humanities, University of Bristol.
July 2023 Resilient Reverberations: Artistic Encounters and Engagements. In Urbancreativity.org conference, Lisbon.
Mar 2023 “Polite Subversiveness:” Arts and Its Uncertainties in the Tumbling Environments of Indonesia. In ‘Public Art, Ecological Crisis, and Environmental Activism in East and Southeast Asia’ panel in AAS 2023, Boston.
Oct 2022 Artistic Engagements for Earth Day in Singapore. In Summit Art: Art and Political Events since the 1970s. Humboldt-Universitaet zu Berlin.
July 2022 From Contested Heritage to Participatory Heritage. In ‘Contested Heritage’ panel. In EuroScience Open Forum, Leiden.
Aug 2021 Co-convenor for the double panel ‘Affective Ecologies: Reconnecting arts and environments’, with a presentation Farming, Art and Activism in Hong Kong. In the ICAS 12, Kyoto [online].
May 2021 Cultivating Ecological Imaginations: Farming as Craftsmanship and Artistic Practice. In ‘Artisanship and the Pearl River: Ecology, Creative Practices and Global Networks’ workshop [online]. Hosted by kaitak, Centre for Research and Development in Visual Arts at the Academy of Visual Arts of Hong Kong Baptist University.
Apr 2021 Contesting and Gendering Civic Futures through Urban Creativity. Keynote in Contested 'That': Creative conflict in theory and practice. International conference [online] Organized by Created and Contested Territories Research Group at Norwich University of the Arts, UK.
Mar 2021 Co-convenor and the chair for the double panel ‘Boundaries of Sites of Resistance and Resilience’, with a paper From Homeless to Homefull: Activism and Art by and for Women in Tokyo. In Association for Asian Studies (AAS) Annual Conference 2021.
Mar 2021 Transcribed Flows and Arrhythmias: Chinese Writing Cultures from Stone Inscriptions to Contemporary Graffiti. Talk in Scratched, Scrawled, Sprayed: Towards a Cross-Cultural Research on Graffiti workshop. Centre for the Study of Manuscript Cultures, University of Hamburg.
Feb 2021 - May 2022 Kirjoituksia kungfutselaisuudesta [Primary Writings of Confucianism]. At YLE Areena.
Nov 2020 Creative Engagement in Urban Spaces of East Asia with Minna Valjakka. The Nordic Asia Podcast.
Nov 2020 Ways of Working and Sustainability workshop, co-convened with Ayos Purwoaji for Forces of Art initiative.
Nov 2019 Modes of Collaboration and Participation for co-creation of the public space. Talk at the Southeast Asian Studies, NUS, Singapore.
Aug 2019 Modes of Collaboration and Participation for co-creation of the public space. Paper in Sharing and Participating—the ‘Commons’: Art Social Aesthetic Education Summit 2019. Organized by the China Academy of Art, Qianfenxi village, Pingan County, Fujian Province, China.
Aug 2019 Moderator for the workshop ‘We Started Something!’, with a paper Agencies and modalities for collaboration and participation. In the Awakenings Symposium, the National Gallery of Singapore.
July 2019 Convenor and Chair for the panel Planetary interconnectedness with nature: Transcultural aesthetics, ecologies and landscapes, with a talk ‘Immaterial Ecology’: Contingencies of Environmental Experience and Ethics through New Media Art. In the ICAS 11, Leiden.
July 2019 Urbanized Interface: The Power of Artistic and Creative Practices Transforming Cities in Mainland China. Book presentation. In the ICAS 11, Leiden.
July 2019 Chair for the panel Gender and Writing II. In the ICAS 11, Leiden.
Feb 2019 Convenor and Chair for the panel “Impartial Integration: Decolonizing artistic and creative practices in Asia,” with a talk Spectacles and social engagement of The Street Art World Ltd. In the College Art Association 107th Annual Conference, New York.
Feb 2019 Urbanized Interface: The Power of Artistic and Creative Practices Transforming Cities in Mainland China. Talk in the York University, Toronto.
Oct 2018 Urbanized Interface: The Power of Artistic and Creative Practices Transforming Cities in Mainland China. Talk in the ARI Seminar Series.
June 2018 Emerging Street Galleries in East and Southeast Asia: Challenges and Contingencies of Transcultural Practices. Talk in the Thirteenth International Conference on the Arts in Society: How Art Makes Things Happen—Situating Social Practice in Research, Practice, and Action. Emily Carr University of Art + Design, Vancouver.
June 2018 Translocal Urban Creativity: Worlding Hong Kong Cityscape from Below. In the workshop Movement as Interregnum: People, Technologies, Goods, and Ideas, funded by the University of Amsterdam, Netherlands, and hosted at the Asia Research Institute, Singapore.
Apr 2018 Re-envisioning the city through pop-up street galleries. Talk in the Cultures of Participation 2018, international conference, Aarhus University, Aarhus, Denmark
Jan 2018 Co-convenor with Prof HO Kong Chong for the panel “Community Farms, Gardens and Ponds in the City,” with a talk Green Empowerment: Activism, Aesthetics and Engagement in Hong Kong. In the 14th International Asian Urbanization Conference: Sustainable Development Goals in Asia, Bangkok
July 2017 Convenor and Chair for the panel “Taking the Right to Engage: Alternative Artistic and Creative Practices for Urban Public Space in Hong Kong,” with a talk Urban Hacking as Creative Resilience for Hong Kong. In ICAS 10, Chiang Mai.
July 2017 Discussant for the panel “Urban Lanes and Neighbourhoods II: Art, Heritage, and Creative Industries.” In ICAS 10, Chiang Mai.
Jan 2017 Hacking Hong Kong: Urban Creativity for Dissidence and Social Engagement. In Imagining the Future: Community Innovation and Social Resilience in Asia, international conference, Chinese University of Hong Kong.
Feb 2016 Umbrellas, Universal Suffrage and Urban Public Space: artistic and creative practice during the Occupy Movement in Hong Kong. CAA Annual Conference, Washington.
Mar 2016 Co-Convenor for the panel “Intervention, Engagement and Transition: The New Artistic and Creative Practices in East Asia,” with a talk Engagement with Urban Public Space: from Unauthorized Interventions to Institutional Commissions. In AAS Annual Conference, Seattle.
Mar 2016 Taiteilijoiden kaupungit: julkinen tila, estetiikka ja yhteisöllisyys. [The Cities by the Artists: Public Space, Aesthetics and Communities.] Talk in the Art, Nature and City series, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland.
Jan 2016 Creativity, Color and Communities: Re-creating the City Across the Borders. Talk in IIAS, Leiden University.
Nov 2015 Present’s Disjunctive Unity. Constructing and Deconstructing Histories of Contemporary Cultural and Aesthetic Practices, international conference, kick-off event for the Research Network for Transcultural Practices in the Arts and Humanities (RNTP), Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin.
Sep 2015 Interaction with the City: Site-responsive Urban Creativity in China. Talk in the Cross Currents in the Humanities Lecture Series at New York University Shanghai.
Aug 2015 Transcultural Urban Creativity and Activism in Hong Kong. Talk in the international summer school: Urban Culture in Theory and Action at the Copenhagen University.
July 2015 Urban Art Images and the Concerns of Mainlandization in Hong Kong. In ICAS 9 Adelaide.
June 2015 Aesthetics, Agencies and Affect: Art and Creativity in Support of the Umbrella Revolution. In RE:Public Cultural Typhoon, Osaka.
(Since 2006 around one hundred invited international talks).