Body Politics & Purity: A Screening and Conversation with Poyen Wang and Amiko Li

June 12, 2025
6:30 pm – 8:00 pm
Asia Art Archive in America
23 Cranberry St. Brooklyn, NY

Asia Art Archive in America (AAAinA) and Triangle Arts Association are pleased to present a screening and conversation on Thursday, June 12th from 6:30 – 8pm. This program will share recent films by Triangle Residency artist alumni, Poyen Wang and Amiko Li. The two artists will be joined by writer and curator Jungmin Cho for a conversation following the screening. The discussion will explore their practices through the lens of purity—questioning how notions of purity are constructed around the body, race, and gender within socio-political systems while giving rise to attempts, negotiations, and struggles.

Poyen Wang will be sharing Night Stroll (2023-2024, 22 minutes). Amiko Li will be sharing excerpts from Passaggio (2023, 13 minutes) and Singing Glass (2024, 12 minutes).

Poyen Wang is an artist and filmmaker born and raised in Taiwan, currently based in New York City. His recent work approaches image-making as a theatrical endeavor, staging scenes of psychological tension to explore themes of intimacy, power dynamics, and the relationship between the self and the world. His work has recently been shown at VIDEONALE, Kassel Dokfest, Kasseler Kunstverein, the Wassaic Project, Essex Flowers, and the Bronx Museum of the Arts in New York, among others. He is a recipient of LMCC’s Manhattan Arts Grants (2025/2023) and has participated in residencies and fellowships at Triangle Arts Association, the AIM Fellowship, Bamboo Curtain Studio, 18th Street Arts Center, and Flux Factory. He teaches in the Department of Film and Media Studies at Hunter College. 

Amiko Li (b. 1993, Shanghai) is an interdisciplinary artist who translates everyday stories and encounters into film, installation, and performance, to explore and contextualize the underlying complexities and themes, such as intimacy, waiting, and value.

Li’s recent Exhibition and performance include Center for Art, Research, and Alliance, New York; The Shed, New York; Ulster Museum, Ireland; Haus der Elektronischen Künste, Switzerland; UCCA Center for Contemporary Art, China; Power Station of Art, China; and Flat Earth Film Festival, Iceland. Li’s work has been supported through fellowships and residencies at Delfina Foundation, London; Triangle Arts Association, New York; and Kunstlerhaus Dortmund, Germany.

Jungmin Cho is an independent curator and writer based between Seoul and New York. She is the founder and director of WHITE NOISE—an art space and platform in Seoul dedicated to fostering artistic experimentation and building global art communities since its establishment in 2018. 

Through WHITE NOISE and her independent practice, Cho has worked with a wide range of international organizations, including Brief Histories, Canal Projects, Frieze Seoul, GYOPO, Hessel Museum, Montez Press Radio, NOISE Istanbul, Space NN in Munich, and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, among others. Their work has been featured in publications such as The Art Newspaper, Artsy, Hyundai Art Lab, The New York Times, and Spike Art Magazine. Recently, Cho served as a guest curator for Untitled Miami 2024, exploring the theme “East Meets West” and studied in the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College.