Cheung

Conrad Cheung is an artist and educator working across installation, performance, architecture, video, VR, and more. Their practice proposes conditions of alternative spatiality, sociality, and affect as commons for flourishing and communing. In the face of our various crises, what material and affective infrastructures might allow for the emergence of eclectic new publics and ways of living differently with others, particularly socially illegible and nonhuman subjects? Cheung's interventions are typically driven by strategies of parafiction, collaboration, participation, and site-specificity, and bear ethical commitments to enactment at the scales of architecture and body.

Cheung is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Art and affiliate faculty in the Environmental Thought and Practice program at the University of Virginia. They currently work under several aliases for parafictional and collaborative purposes — as the architectural firm The Institute for Improvisational Infrastructures, with a rotating cast of collaborators; as the artist collective nonhumanities, with Anna Hogg and Katie Baer Schetlick; and as the experimental home-goods company front door = back door, with Jess Robbins of Haptic; and as various performed personae in public spaces.