Rachel Seah

PhD Candidate

United Kingdom

Rachel Seah is a PhD Candidate at the Centre for Chinese Visual Arts in Birmingham School of Art researching contemporary private photography in China through the gendered and material lens.

Her research is located at the intersection of contemporary art and visual activism with an interest in contemporary photography and media, feminism, care ethics and alternative histories.

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Art Review Oxford
02/10/2024
Whose Tropics Is It Anyway?

In this special issue, Seah reviewed Kent Chan’s installation at the Liverpool Biennale detailing Chan’s exploration on the future tropics and climate colonisation.

smART Magazine
08/15/2023
A Photo Oxford Retrospective

This article explores the hidden power of archives at this year’s Photo Oxford 2023 with select pop-up ‘Women and the Photobook’ and works by Anne Howeson, Ania Ready, Kaz Hakimi and artists from Magdalen Road Studios. Their myriad use and activation of archives charge us to reinvent the future as ethically and considerably as possible hope we can find it in ourselves to exact sensitivity, hope, gratitude and importantly, the community spirit in the latent archives around us.

Academic
03/12/2020
Now I See You, Now I Don’t

A curatorial proposal on Post-Museum's Bukit Brown Index #132: Triptych of the Unseen (2018)​, Wayang stage, chairs, cardboard virtual reality (VR) goggles and archival materials in joss paper construction 550 x 400 x 244 cm; duration 8:27 mins (‘Ghost’), 6:51 mins (‘Bureaucrat’), 9:43 mins (‘Activist’).

Medium, Personal Essay
05/24/2020
Reading Art: Writing Exhibitions and Exhibiting Literature

This article looks at the shift of curatorial practice in literary exhibitions by example of Wonderland travelling exhibition developed by the Australian Centre of Moving Images (ACMI) held at ArtScience Museum, Singapore from April to September 2019.

Academic
13/06/2020
The Chinese Cyborgian Futures

A curatorial project proposal that sheds light and perspective on the future of China by way of looking at forgotten late-Qing science fiction in contrast with China's current social progress and coming technological and industrial wave.