<aside> Hi there, I am clar, a cultural worker based in Hong Kong via Kuala Lumpur & Penang critically thinking through collective arts practice via visual culture, architecture and urbanism.
I produce, curate and navigate the internet to manage art and cultural projects.
hallo，我係 Clar，一個文化工作者，喺香港生活，之前住過在吉隆坡同檳城。我主要透過視覺文化、建築同城市研究，去批判性思考集體藝術實踐。
我平時會製作、策劃 / 展，興創作藝術同文化項目。
🟢 projects 項目
🔴 people 人
🟡 programmes 計劃 | 活動
🔵 institutions 機構
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Portrait of me by Jason Li
I am also part of ERTI Collective working on in cultural policy in Malaysia, consulting with The Goethe Institute, The Asia Foundation, British Council and UNESCO.
I am currently a PhD Candidate in Architecture at the Chinese University of Hong Kong ****supervised by Dr. Cecilia Chu and Prof. Inge Goudsmit. I am funded by the Hong Kong PhD Fellowship Scheme and the CUHK Vice-Chancellor’s PhD Scholarship.
I am a Regenerative Practitioner, certified from the Regenesis group cultivating awareness and circulating placed-based connectedness between different communities.
Soon I will be embarking on a journey between the rivers of Klang River and Chao Praya with Future Positive, and Chiang Khong with Monsoon School.
I was funded by another CCA, the Canadian Council of Arts to work with Karie Liao to research about Malaysian contemporary artists and collective arts ecologies.
I was the 2022-2023 Emerging Curator at the Canadian Centre of Architecture, working on Making Mamak, a project mapping the urban influence of arts collectives.
I previously project coordinated at the Public Arts team at the Hong Kong Arts Centre
I previously was the inaugural China Residencies (now Yao Collaborative) Researcher-in-Residence, reporting from front lines of the art and cultural scene of Hong Kong.
I was also one half of Inven_tory projects. We recently completed ‘A Good(s) Log’ funded by Design Trust . I was a partner of BAO (*Beyond Architecture Outlet).*
I previously taught the first cohort of Design+ and History and Theory II at the Department of Architecture, HKU.
I previously was a scholar from the Hubs for Good program and a lecturer of Interior Architecture at Malaysia Institute of Art.
I also wrote a piece in 2024 ago for the recently published the third Process magazine. They shared a snip-it on Instagram.
I wrote a Field Notes in between islands, peninsular and the Island of Tiohtià:ke in Kanien'kéha, and Mooniyang in Anishinaabemowin, or Montreal
A conversation with Yap Sau Bin on the CCA platform titled ‘Connecting Collectivity’
I published an article in Shifting the Angle of Shine, the 10 year anniversary book for Yao Collaborative
I published a chapter of the recent PAM 100-year anniversary tome, Arch-volution
I usually am a freelance arts writer for BASKL.
I also finished editing the a volume by Suburbia Projects.
I edited for the exhibition catalog for May We, curated by Rebecca Yeoh
I also published on Lanaizine, a Malaysian based architecture publication
Sometimes I am thinking about the ecology, hypnotherapy and relaxation on Lensa Seni, 2020
or declaring that Twenty-Three By-Laws and Multicoloured banners for Paprika!, 2020
also always asking Where has the common world gone? BLANK II, Crisis 2020
Re- BLANK, 2018
All of the ERTI social media and design
Exhibitions at PMQ x HKU initiative
I designed with BAO the visual identity for ...Or Silence and the exhibition spaces.
I was also an architectural assistant designing the TheBookshop at the Hong Kong Museum of Art.
at ERTI we curated a conversation, ‘From the Valley to the Coast’ with East Coast arts collectives in Kuala Terengganu
I also curated in conversation with Yip Kai Chun for 「浮線日誌」 How to draw a line across the sea? at the Peng Chau Cinema
I just completed a Making Mamak presentation at the CCA in Montreal
My newest curatorial project with the CCA has a website now: Making Mamak
Producer of Kombucha-cha, Seoul Architecture and Urbanism Biennale, Seoul, South Korea, 2021
Co-curator of Constructing Worlds, online exhibition, 2021, with Rebecca Yeoh
Designer of The Impossible Order: Europe, Power and the Search for a New Migration Regime, Berlin, Germany, 2017 (exhibited at BOX Freiraum)
Designer of Living on the Water & Youth Square, 2017, Living on the Water & Very Aberdeen, 2016, and Living on the Water Stanley Community Centre, 2016
Making Mamak talk at KLABF 2025
Making Mamak talk at Klang River Festival 2025
Making Mamak talk at COEX 2024 with Ali Alasri
Arts of the Working Class article on Making Mamak
Dusts Institute 2nd Year Anniversary Sharing
R+ talked to me about Creative Hubs, Gary Yeow interviewed me with Edwin Seng on xyzpodcast. I was also on a Happy Accidents! by Howay Hose.
I also was a podcast host for Cultural Masseur Talking Heads Podcast Series (in Cantonese!!)
After joining an ANCER Workshop, I joined the 6th ANCER Conference titled: Shaping Asia’s Creative Futures: Cultural Relations, Technologies, and the Commons, ****I presented a paper in the emerging scholars panel titled ‘Cultural Infrastructure in Malaysia - When Hardware met software in Collective Arts Practice as Network’ 2025
Sometimes I do conferences, I presented a paper on Material and Multicultural Histories of Arts Collectives in urban centers of Malaysia at IASTE, Alexandria, Egypt 2025
Urban Mediations Conference, CUHK, Hong Kong - Stage 1: The search for shared materials ecologies to build Arts Collectives in Malaysia
or a paper at IPHS (International Planning History Society) in 2024 on Arts Collectives in High Density Environments Mapping relationships for the future KongsiKL
I presented at the ‘DocTalks x MoMA with Clarissa Lim Kye Lee as part of the Ambasz Institute’ in June 2024 under a topic, “Stage 1: The Search for Shared Materials Ecologies to Build Arts Collectives in Malaysia”
or else I am also presenting a Hong Kong Studies Symposium titled ‘Hong Kong and Elsewhere’ on A Good(s) Log 2020
to pair with the tea practice, is my cooking
I used to stream my rural living on twitch to encourage all to drink tea together.
📧 clarissa.kl.lim [at] gmail.com
📸 @cl44r