Yuki Kobayashi (ACC 2023) started his 6-month fellowship in Hong Kong. 
Kobayashi uses his own body as a neutral object and focuses on performance works that question gender, disability, and racial stereotypes. He is also a founder of Stilllive, a performance art platform starting in 2019, where he collaborates with many artists from a wide range of genres with backgrounds in bodily expression.
During this fellowship, he will conduct ongoing research for a project based on Wing Chun, a Chinese martial art for which he has been training, and will study the history of Wing Chun and its relationship to social issues, as well as acquire more advanced techniques at a local dojo to explore the construction of new forms of bodily expression that cross the boundaries between performance art and martial arts.

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Visual Artist / Performance Artist. Received MA from Royal College of Art, Performance and Painting and BA from Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design, Fine Art. His major exhibitions include: “The Vision of Contemporary Art 2024,” “Bodies in unrest feat. Yuki Kobayashi” (Solo Performance, Goethe-Institut Tokyo, 2022), “Experiment Film and Video Festival in Seoul : EX-Live” (MMCA, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2021), “Venice International Performance Art Week” (European Cultural Centre/Plazzo Mora & Palazzo Michel, Venice, 2020), “18th Asian Art Biennale Bangladesh 2018,” (Dhaka, 2018), “Dada 100th Anniversary Festival” as “Stillllive with Nigel Rolfe” (Spiral, Tokyo, 2016).