Linda Lu is a Taiwanese-American researcher + artist living in Oakland. She creates research + art projects that push the boundaries at the intersections of empirical and creative inquiry.
About
Her research + art is fluid, participatory, and multidimensional. Her work lives at the intersection of intellectual inquiry and imagination, where data is not only collected but felt, sensed, and shared. Each act of participation alters the outcome, making the art itself a living methodology. She also draws on expansive understandings of knowledge-making practices that existed long before research became colonized, institutionalized and professionalized.
Her influences include Yoko Ono, Chandra Mohanty, Hilma af Klint, Calder, Nam June Paik, John Cage, Foucault, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, and other powerful artists and thinkers who have pushed, disrupted, expanded our worlds. She sees art as instrumentation: a way to disrupt linear thinking, manifest the abstract, and tell stories that awaken collective memory and future possibility.
art + research is rupture and unlearning,
Art + Research