https://clarechunyuliu.com 2026-03-24T17:37:39+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/R2127426591677347662728603742068/PhD-thesis.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2127435948364003938203341270900/The-curious-question.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/J2127471363050465944306658422644/Bunker-talk-close-up.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2296098045840519419511706070900/interview.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2366411270250719750469433274228/-2025-05-21-19.16.22.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2366413344992919208730122628980/-2025-05-21-19.18.32.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q2366415569983849147355109896052/-2025-05-21-19.19.52.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2617784326620097016891900800884/Alternative-Roots-Festival.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/S2855651264655076849860028510068/page.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2855653852069187604656576376692/page-2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/K2855661137407845331433182048116/page-3.jpg https://clarechunyuliu.com/becoming-and-becoming 2025-11-28T10:47:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/P2479615493996767408657413812084/Becoming and becoming https://clarechunyuliu.com/provenance-and-current-location 2025-11-28T10:47:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2318334874535236257867616333684/Still_Basin-with-floral-decoration.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/G2318335043618092437489366445940/Still_Scent-bottle.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/D2318335134800348393835680083828/Still_lLidded-jar.jpeg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2318335725096158752541331795828/Still_Vase-one-of-a-pair.jpeg https://clarechunyuliu.com/another-beautiful-dream 2025-11-28T10:47:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg <h1 style="line-height: 1.1; --font-scale: 0.75;"> Another beautiful dream 2022 14 minutes colour digital video, sound Another beautiful dream is a postcolonial response to chinoiserie, questioning the representation of Chineseness in the visual style. Filmed in-situ, this work revisits the Chinese wallpaper from the 18th century at Harewood House, an English stately home. Integral to the culture of taste, exotic artefacts such as Chinese wallpaper then furnished houses of the landed gentry and enabled them to closely experiment with the foreign. And so, through exploring the other and thus establishing the self, modern British identity took shape in the heyday of maritime commerce. Across the film, there are four monologues by ‘Chinese’ Chippendale - the designer sourcing and hanging the wallpaper, Chinese Emperor Chien-lung, the artist herself and Ang, the artist’s childhood neighbour in Taipei with Chinese Ching royal, Manchurian and Taiwanese background. The four characters critique the Chinese wallpaper in relation to self and other from their perspectives informed by their lived experience. The artistic strategy of juxtaposing chinoiserie with the artist’s personal and familial photography serves to further explore self and other. As the wallpaper was made in China for export purpose, self-representation is at stake. The use of personal photos questions how one represents oneself in the present and how that negotiates self-representation from the past. Another beautiful dream is sequel to This is China of a particular sort, I do not know (2020). Both are part of the artist’s practice-based fine art PhD, revisiting English chinoiserie from a postcolonial and personal/Taiwanese/Chinese diasporic perspective through re-interpreting English chinoiserie collections at cultural heritage sites. credits composer Ian Costabile violin Lyarah Live piano Raquel Costabile camera directing editing script Clare Chun-yu Liu This film was made with financial assistance from PAHC Research Degree Fund, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.</h1> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2126985383817651739127559073652/Another beautiful dream <h1 style="line-height: 1.1; --font-scale: 0.75;"> Another beautiful dream 2022 14 minutes colour digital video, sound Another beautiful dream is a postcolonial response to chinoiserie, questioning the representation of Chineseness in the visual style. Filmed in-situ, this work revisits the Chinese wallpaper from the 18th century at Harewood House, an English stately home. Integral to the culture of taste, exotic artefacts such as Chinese wallpaper then furnished houses of the landed gentry and enabled them to closely experiment with the foreign. And so, through exploring the other and thus establishing the self, modern British identity took shape in the heyday of maritime commerce. Across the film, there are four monologues by ‘Chinese’ Chippendale - the designer sourcing and hanging the wallpaper, Chinese Emperor Chien-lung, the artist herself and Ang, the artist’s childhood neighbour in Taipei with Chinese Ching royal, Manchurian and Taiwanese background. The four characters critique the Chinese wallpaper in relation to self and other from their perspectives informed by their lived experience. The artistic strategy of juxtaposing chinoiserie with the artist’s personal and familial photography serves to further explore self and other. As the wallpaper was made in China for export purpose, self-representation is at stake. The use of personal photos questions how one represents oneself in the present and how that negotiates self-representation from the past. Another beautiful dream is sequel to This is China of a particular sort, I do not know (2020). Both are part of the artist’s practice-based fine art PhD, revisiting English chinoiserie from a postcolonial and personal/Taiwanese/Chinese diasporic perspective through re-interpreting English chinoiserie collections at cultural heritage sites. credits composer Ian Costabile violin Lyarah Live piano Raquel Costabile camera directing editing script Clare Chun-yu Liu This film was made with financial assistance from PAHC Research Degree Fund, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK.</h1> https://clarechunyuliu.com/this-is-china-of-a-particular-sort,-i-do-not-know 2025-11-28T10:47:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg <h1 style="line-height: 1.1; --font-scale: 0.75;"> This is China of a particular sort, I do not know 2020 34:01 minutes colour digital video, sound This is China of a particular sort, I do not know is an artist film in response to chinoiserie, a European visual style of materiality imitating Chinese motifs popular in the eighteenth century. It is set and entirely filmed at the Royal Pavilion Brighton, a British pleasure palace built by George IV based on the idea of illusion, and hence its exterior being Indian Mughal and interior chinoiserie. Across five dialogues and one monologue, the artist herself and relevant historical individuals - that are George IV the British King, Chien-lung the Chinese Emperor who received the Macartney Embassy, George Macartney who led the first British embassy to China, William Alexander the draughtsman from the Embassy, and Ang a Ching Dynasty royal family member and also the artist’s childhood neighbour in Taiwan – question, miss, argue and disagree with each other over the representation of Chineseness in chinoiserie at the Pavilion. This film is one of the three case studies as part of the artist’s practice-based fine art PhD titled Reinterpreting English Chinoiserie from a Postcolonial and Personal/Taiwanese Perspective: Creating New Narratives through Art Practice. credits composer Ian Costabile camera directing editing script Clare Chun-yu Liu This film was made with financial assistance from PAHC Research Degree Fund, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. screenings/exhibitions: 2024 Clare Chun-yu Liu, Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania 2024 An Inverted Journey of Counter Archiving, esea contemporary, Manchester, UK 2024 Between the personal and historical: the Chinese diaspora, chinoiserie and photography, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK 2023 Asymmetry Foundation, London, UK 2023 Asia Pacific Film Festival, Preston, UK 2022 New Art Exchange Open, Nottingham, UK [exhibition] 2022 Clare Chun-yu Liu artist films screening, de Art Center, China 2021 Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey 2021 Busan International Video Art Festival, South Korea [exhibition] 2021 SMIF: Asian Film and Video Festival, Spain 2021 EX-IS, Seoul, South Korea 2021 Image Forum Festival, Tokyp and Nagoya, Japan 2021 Experimental Forum, USA [Honourable Mention] [collection] Asian Film Archive, Singapore </h1> https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/L2127548889753633589724231085940/This is China of a particular sort, I do not know <h1 style="line-height: 1.1; --font-scale: 0.75;"> This is China of a particular sort, I do not know 2020 34:01 minutes colour digital video, sound This is China of a particular sort, I do not know is an artist film in response to chinoiserie, a European visual style of materiality imitating Chinese motifs popular in the eighteenth century. It is set and entirely filmed at the Royal Pavilion Brighton, a British pleasure palace built by George IV based on the idea of illusion, and hence its exterior being Indian Mughal and interior chinoiserie. Across five dialogues and one monologue, the artist herself and relevant historical individuals - that are George IV the British King, Chien-lung the Chinese Emperor who received the Macartney Embassy, George Macartney who led the first British embassy to China, William Alexander the draughtsman from the Embassy, and Ang a Ching Dynasty royal family member and also the artist’s childhood neighbour in Taiwan – question, miss, argue and disagree with each other over the representation of Chineseness in chinoiserie at the Pavilion. This film is one of the three case studies as part of the artist’s practice-based fine art PhD titled Reinterpreting English Chinoiserie from a Postcolonial and Personal/Taiwanese Perspective: Creating New Narratives through Art Practice. credits composer Ian Costabile camera directing editing script Clare Chun-yu Liu This film was made with financial assistance from PAHC Research Degree Fund, Manchester School of Art, Manchester Metropolitan University, UK. screenings/exhibitions: 2024 Clare Chun-yu Liu, Nida Art Colony, Nida, Lithuania 2024 An Inverted Journey of Counter Archiving, esea contemporary, Manchester, UK 2024 Between the personal and historical: the Chinese diaspora, chinoiserie and photography, Bloc Projects, Sheffield, UK 2023 Asymmetry Foundation, London, UK 2023 Asia Pacific Film Festival, Preston, UK 2022 New Art Exchange Open, Nottingham, UK [exhibition] 2022 Clare Chun-yu Liu artist films screening, de Art Center, China 2021 Istanbul Experimental Film Festival, Istanbul, Turkey 2021 Busan International Video Art Festival, South Korea [exhibition] 2021 SMIF: Asian Film and Video Festival, Spain 2021 EX-IS, Seoul, South Korea 2021 Image Forum Festival, Tokyp and Nagoya, Japan 2021 Experimental Forum, USA [Honourable Mention] [collection] Asian Film Archive, Singapore </h1> https://clarechunyuliu.com/a-homeland-story-across-the-strait 2025-11-28T10:47:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg https://clarechunyuliu.com/a-love-story-between-the-strait 2025-11-28T10:47:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg https://clarechunyuliu.com/a-complete-story-between-the-strait 2025-11-28T10:47:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg https://clarechunyuliu.com/sumatra 2025-11-28T10:47:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg https://clarechunyuliu.com/cv-contact 2026-03-24T17:49:26+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Q1515376351823325515705315491841/horizontal.svg https://clarechunyuliu.com/nav-—-desktop 2025-11-28T11:00:02+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/N2296095813267977666592093089652/CSM-event.png https://clarechunyuliu.com/nav-—-mobile 2025-11-28T10:47:32+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/X2133951674950130520738591256436/Clare-Chun-yu-Liu_portrait.JPG https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/I2366421237579945097951457947508/-2025-05-21-19.19.52.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/Z2366421351470143009034229624692/-2025-05-21-19.16.22.png https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/A2366422894687858727427898716020/-2025-05-21-19.27.08.png https://clarechunyuliu.com/header---mobile 2026-03-24T17:40:51+00:00 always 0.5 https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/V2855666252708423715165554716532/page.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/F2855666815629265868486231830388/page-2.jpg https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/T2855667199911838412003611094900/page-3.jpg