Lin Keshi (Karen)

Independent Curator, Writer, Video Practitioner
Guangzhou, China
 

Lin Keshi (Karen) explores themes of migration, identity, history, and social change. She holds a master’s degree in design history from the China Academy of Art (2019) and spent nearly three years working in art institutions before shifting her focus towards experimental artistic practices.

Since 2022, she has been involved with the Social Practice Lab (SPL), where she focuses on socially engaged art and alternative artistic forms, approaching art as a form of resistance. Currently based in Guangzhou, Lin’s research centers on domestic and overseas migration in China and the legacy of socialist industrialization. Through video, photography, and oral history–often drawing on her own family’s experiences–she examines the power dynamics behind grand narratives and challenges how history is constructed and remembered.

 

LOST CONTACT

A cross-city and online program that explores the shifting nature of love, connection, and solitude in contemporary life. Through personal narratives, public gatherings, and experimental practices, LOST CONTACT opens space for reflection on how relationships are formed – and fractured – amid changing bodies, politics, and technologies.