Monique Yim

Artist, educator and curator who received MA from Central Saint Martins, UK. She mainly engages with performance, mixed media, public and community art, as well as film and theatre. Her works largely concern social, cultural, gender and minorities issues. She has participated in over 200 exhibitions, festivals and residency programmes in over 30 cities across Asia, Europe and Americas. She was awarded the "Visual Art Performance in Public Space" international prize at Kassak Centre, Europe and was named the finalist for "Hong Kong Human Rights Arts Prize". She curated "Performance Art Marathon" in West Kowloon Cultural District. She has been a consultant, guest lecturer, workshop instructor, talk and conference speaker at various overseas and local universities, schools and organizations. She has collaborated with or commissioned by numerous worldwide organizations.

In the past ten years, she has been dedicated to performance art education for young artists, universities, schools and the public. She has also combined her performance art pedagogy with life education and positive psychology. She created a mindful art workshop methodology that integrates mindfulness with her performance art pedagogy, concerning body-mind-spirit and mental health. She pioneered expressive arts workshops in the form of performance art, and has repeatedly collaborated with expressive art therapists. All of the above are invited to institutions, organizations, professional training (eg. teachers, social workers, counsellors), art and cultural festivals, inclusive arts projects, etc.

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