Chương-Đài Võ
Chương-Đài Võ is a researcher, curator, and current lauréate du programme de résidences Ville de Paris aux Récollets. She is interested in the migration and transformation of ideas and practices; the legacy of colonialist systems; and the relationship between art history and contemporary practices.
She is working as a co-editor with Charles Esche of a forthcoming book from the Van Abbemuseum about the process of demodernizing and decolonizing its collection and programming approaches. Based in Paris, she is a member of the advisory board on Southeast Asia for AWARE (Archives of Women Artists, Research and Exhibitions), and an advisory member of an international digital humanities project called Mobile Subjects about artists who came to Paris from Africa, Asia and Latin America in the 20th century.
She has curated exhibitions in Hong Kong, Saigon, Phnom Penh, Paris, Los Angeles and New York City. Her essays have appeared in Afterall Journal and publications from the Albertinum Museum (forthcoming), Muzeum Sztuki Nowoczesnej w Warszawie (forthcoming), Institut national d’histoire de l’art (INHA), Moderna galerija, and Taipei Fine Arts Museum. She has been a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow at MIT, Fulbright Scholar, Chercheuse Invitée at INHA, Chercheuse Invitée at Institut Giacometti, and Chercheuse-en-résidence at Cité internationale des arts.
She lived in Asia for nearly a decade and has been working there for two decades. She was a Researcher at Asia Art Archive in Hong Kong (2016-2022), supervising the collections on modern and contemporary art in Southeast Asia. While at AAA, she curated the following exhibitions and commissions:
In living we draw out the light: For MOMA's C-MAP platform, S. Yi Yao Chao and Poklong Anading's response to three archives
Indecisive Intuition: S. Yi Yao Chao’s response to the Lee Wen Archive
Form Colour Action: Sketchbooks and Notebooks of Lee Wen
Ho Tzu Nyen, The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia, Vol. 1: G for Ghost(writers)