Performance Curators Academy

Florence Lam (b.1992 Vancouver, Canada) is a performance artist and curator based in Hong Kong. She is the co-founder of Per.Platform, Hong Kong-based independent live art platform founded in 2021. She obtained her MA Fine Art from Iceland Academy of the Arts in 2017 and her BA Fine Art from Central Saint Martins in 2014.

Lam has performed around Asia and Europe, including M+ (Hong Kong, 2023), Tai Kwun Contemporary (Hong Kong, 2022), Para Site (Hong Kong, 2021), Nanhai Gallery (Taipei, Taiwan 2019), Kling & Bang (Reykjavík, Iceland 2018), Manifesta 11 (Zürich, Switzerland 2016) etc. Performance festivals include IMPORT/EXPORT (Livorno, Italy 2023), Movement Festival (Hong Kong 2022), Black Market International - Exploring 2021 (Frankfurt, Germany 2021), A! Performance Festival (Akureyri, Iceland 2019), ZABIH Performance Festival (Lviv, Ukraine 2019), Reykjavík Arts Festival (Reykjavík, Iceland 2019), Performance Platform Lublin (Lublin, Poland 2017) etc. She has been holding live and online performance art workshops since 2020. She worked as a re-performer for “The Cleaner” Retrospective of Marina Abramović at Bundeskunsthalle, Bonn, Germany (2018) and a workshop facilitator for “A Different Way of Hearing - The Abramović Method for Music” at Alte Oper, Frankfurt, Germany (2019), facilitating “The Abramocić Method” workshop with audiences.

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