EUGENIA LIM CV
Through my work, I explore race, identity and representation. Like many Australians, I am the product of multiple cultural influences – this tension is often implicit or explicit in my work. For the past ten years, I have explored cultural mythologies of East and West through video, photography and increasingly installation, referencing the languages of cinema and popular culture. I am equal parts infuriated and intrigued by cultural stereotypes or depictions of “the other” in popular media and it is this dual sense of anger/wonder that I channel into my own performances on screen or camera. Often the central character in my videos and photographs, I “perform identities”. Of Chinese-Singaporean descent, my simultaneous ‘Australian-ness’ and ethnicity provide the departure point for my video and photographic performances, in which I attempt to portray varying shades of ‘white’ or ‘asian-ness’. From Picnic in Hanging Rock’s Miranda to the infamous Japanese cannibal and minor celebrity Issei Sagawa, I don a dead-pan demeanor and ill-fitting wigs (sometimes) in order to reflect the tensions between the individual and their society, the multicultural and monocultural and the marginalised versus the status quo.
Solo and collaborative
Oasis, upcoming solo exhibition at Dianne Tanzer + Projects, 2011
The Fraternity of the Aurumic Order, performance and installation with Tape Projects at Sugar Mountain Festival, Forum Theatre, 2011
Territorial, solo survey of videos and photographs at Manningham Gallery, 2010
Lazy Slum, collaboration with Tape Projects and Six_A, Blindside ARI, 2010
100 Proofs the Earth is Not a Globe, cross-media installation and performance with Tape Projects, Next Wave Festival 2010
NOWHERELAND: the Paris Human Flesh Incident, media installation at Blindside ARI, September 2009
Loose lips sink ships, collaboration with Nic Whyte at Platform ARI, April 2009
Australian Landscapes, video and photomedia installation at KINGS ARI, 2008
A-LURE Locative Media Game, artist/producer on six interconnected public artworks using interactive media-based formats and locative sms game 2006-2008
Either/Auteur, video homage to Senses of Cinema's Top 10 Film Directors, City Library, 2006
Young American, video installation and photographs at Alice Euphemia and Barberella Hair, 2005
Mixed Drinks , performance involving video screenings, traditional Chinese instruments, hanging roasted ducks and chickens, Next Wave Festival, Loop Bar, 2004
Tulle Love, Performance, video installation and 'mock wedding'at Clubs Project Inc., 2004
Group
Dr. Jekyll and Ms. Flowerface, video works by Melbourne artists curated by Eugenia Lim, 24HrArt Darwin, 2011
Studio Apartment, S.O.S. performance and installation at C3 Contemporary, 2011
Figuring Landscapes, 'Young American' video selected for inclusion in touring exhibition featuring single-channel video works by Australian & UK artists to be shown at galleries including the Tate Modern and Queensland Gallery of Modern Art, 2008-09
Arab Telephone, group show at Platform ARI, 2008
HUN Gallery International 2006, video work 'Gravity' selected, HUN Gallery, New York, 2006
The Harries International Digital Art Prize, finalist in Emerging Artist category for video work 'Makeshift', QUT Brisbane, 2006
Pet Cemetery, video work, Seventh Gallery, 2004
Personal Space, video and photographic installation, RMIT First Site Gallery, 2004
The Book Show, digital animation and artist book, RMIT First Site Gallery, 2004
Screenings/performances
Spacecadet Lullabies, live visuals with musician Matt Lewin, 2010-ongoing
Electundra, VJ performance Loop, 2008
Melbourne Big Day Out VJ (Boiler Room), 2008
Melbourne International Arts Festival, Outpost residency at Beck's Artist Bar, 2007
NOISE Onscreen, featured young artist screened nationally on ABC Television, 2006
Girls Boys Machines, screening of 'Young American', Australian Centre for the Moving
Media Conductor, live audio visual performance with Yo Yo Ma's Silk Road Ensemble, 2005 Image Cinemas, 2005
Quickflick World, Barcelona 2005
FAV Junior Show, screening and installation of 'Makeshift', Providence, USA, 2005
Rage, ABC Television, 2003
Digital Allsorts, Noise online
Prizes/awards/grants
Australia Council for the Arts Inter Arts Projects, Grant Recipient for development of Stay Home Sakoku: The Hikikomori Project, 2011
SOYA Visual Arts Category Shortlisted entrant for 2009
Australia Council for the Arts Visual Arts New Work – Emerging grant for NOWHERELAND installation, 2009
Next Wave Kickstart grant for the development of new artistic collaboration by Tape Projects, currently
Australia Council for the Arts Inter Arts RUN_WAY Grant Recipient for art/professional development residency to Share NY and the Experimental Television Centre in 2009
City of Melbourne Young Artist Grant 2008 Recipient for Australian Landscapes, 2008
John Storey Travel Scholarship and semester exchange at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD), USA, 2005
Noise Digital Allsorts grant/mentorship with artist David Rosetzky, 2003
Dean of Art Award, University of Melbourne, 2001
Express Media Poetry Mentorship with poet Alicia Sometimes, 2000
Education
Bachelor of Media Arts, First Class Honours (Media Arts) RMIT, 2003-2007
Bachelor of Creative Arts VCA/University of Melbourne, 2000-2002
Grade 8 AMEB Certificate in Violin, 1998