Bio
Ruo Mu is an independent researcher and cultural worker from China whose practice combines oral history, participatory art, archival work and advocacy organising. She documents queer community memories that circulate outside official records and co-leads a long-term project on queer women’s place-based histories in Chinese cities. Trained in social anthropology at the University of Oxford, her research focuses on resilience and affective politics in LGBTQ movements, platform censorship, digital surveillance and the infrastructures that sustain social movements.
Project Description
During her residency at The
ArQuives in Toronto, Ruo Mu will investigate the ethics of anonymity in archiving. Drawing on the archive’s collections, she explores anonymity as protection, as a form of erasure, and as a question of archival justice: how anonymous labour can be acknowledged, cared for and reintegrated into community memory. The project takes the form of a three-part installation comprising an interactive quiz, a collaborative zine-making station and a short film reflecting on the censorship of queer community documentation.
