Wei Zhang
Contact
- Email: k2269929@kingston.ac.uk
- Location: Kingston School of Art, Knights Park
- Faculty: Kingston School of Art
- School: School of Arts
- Department: Department of Fine Art
- Personal website
Research project: Hear My Speech When I Am Speechless: The Constructive Power of Language in Contemporary Filmmaking and Queerness.
Abstract
This practice-based project explores the relationship among hybrid queerness, language, and the film media to advocate for the hybridisation of queer resistance and cultural diversity within queer studies, drawing on my life experience as a migrant queer in the UK.
- Research degree: Practice-based PhD
- Title of project: Hear My Speech When I Am Speechless: The Constructive Power of Language in Contemporary Filmmaking and Queerness.
- Research supervisor: Dr Dan Kidner
- Other research supervisor: Professor Sara Upstone
Biography
Wei Zhang (born in 1991, China) currently resides and works in Glasgow, Scotland. Zhang is a PhD researcher at Kingston School of Art Zhang is a filmmaker and visual artist, proficient in the mediums of moving images, animation, and video installation. Their artistic endeavours are rooted in various disciplinary fields, including transnational queer studies, post-colonial theory, posthumanism, and transnational essay film studies. These subjects are interwoven with the Sinophone queer experience, hybrid identity and body horror. Zhang's projects aim to dismantle conventional notions surrounding traditional gender binaries, challenge patriarchal control and phallogocentric authorities, and foster cultural unity while combatting discrimination and racism towards marginalized communities.
Areas of research interest
- Queer studies
- Essay film
- Posthumanism
- Post-structuralism
- post-colonial theory
Qualifications
- BA in Directing at ChongQing University (2010 – 2014)
- MSc in Filmmaking and Media Arts at the University of Glasgow (2015 – 2016)
- Master of Fine Art in the Glasgow School of Art (2018 – 2020)