Conrad Cheung is an artist and educator working across installation, performance, architecture, video, VR, and more. Their practice asks what spatial and affective conditions are needed to realize anarchic, queer, and interspecies forms of flourishing and communing. In the face of our various civic and ecological crises, what material infrastructures and reconfigurations of care, desire, and normativity might allow for the emergence of eclectic new publics, reimaginings of resistance and refusal, and experiments in alternative sociality, particularly where sociality exceeds what is comprehensible or what is human? Cheung’s practice is driven by participatory, collaborative, and parafictional strategies and is committed to transdisciplinary work with practitioners across creative and academic fields. They are currently an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and affiliate faculty in the Environmental Thought and Practice program at the University of Virginia. They also work under the corporate alias The Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures (III) with a rotating cast of collaborators, under several fictional identities for intervention in far-right and conspiracist circles, and as the artist collective nonhumanities with Anna Hogg and Katie Baer Schetlick.
You can find Cheung’s CV here, and you can reach them at conradcheung@virginia.edu.