Art that Moves
Lucía I. King is Curator of Art that Moves, the third edition of a yearly networking & curation project - 2024 to 2026. Art that Moves focus is on migration, mobilities and citizenship in flux. The project explores the increased impact in conditions of global migration and interdependence, addressing how this is continually reshaping art history and criticism, art practices, and their dissemination. Exploring approaches to the processes of making artworks and exhibitions through a translocational, and intersectional lens, we ask questions around the more complex framing of identities and artist communities that are hard to pin down.
The programme consisted of a curated artists’ talk series, film screenings and workshops delivered by leading international artists and curators who live and work in Asia, Europe and the UK. Art that Moves was held at Central Saint Martins, UAL, in 2024 to 2026, and University of Brighton in 2026.
King also commissioned the supporting curators, Reem Acason and Ruohan Yu, to research and produce an exhibition of artworks on the theme of migration, made by a group of twenty MA and PhD Fine Art students and alumni from the two hosting Universities. The exhibition was produced over a 5-month period (under King's mentorship) and coincided with the week of presentations by the international art professionals giving public talks. The talks were delivered by: Isaac Leung (Curator, Hong Kong); Clare Chun-yu Liu (Artist, UK/Taiwan); Whiskey Chow (Artist, UK/China); Parwana Haydar (Artist, Afghanistan/UK); Alessio Antoniolli (Curator, international); Jeannette Ehlers (Artist, Trinidad/Denmark); Lu Etienne (Curator, UK/Southeast Asia); Anke Hennig & Ganka Tretiak (Germany and Ukraine) and Lucia I. King.
In the London context, Art that Moves was curated within a larger event called Apparitions, led by Alex Schady (Art Programme Director, Central Saint Martins, UAL). The project anticipates further editions in 2027/28.
The Art that Moves Artists and Curators, 2026 Edition, included:
Top left to bottom right: Anke Hennig, Lu Etienne, Alessio Antoniolli, Whiskey Chow, Isaac Leung, Parwana Haydar, Clare Chun-yu Liu, and Jeannette Ehlers.
Installation view: Art that Moves at Central Saint Martins, UAL, 2026
Apparitions
Image credit: Still from the film Schuld | Guilt by Gonzalo Egurza, 2022 (21´14”)
Art that Moves 2024, co-curated with Rashmi Devi Sawhney, had a focus on Artist-led International Networks. The 2025 edition, working with co-curators, Isaac Leung and Javier Olivera (artist/filmmaker), explored Citizenship, Kinship and the Making of Belonging. The focus was on artistic methods in the context of fragile, precarious and mobile citizenship in the artists’ countries of production, and a Latin American film sub-programme.
Some of the artists/filmmakers/curators featured include Gigi Scaria, Avijit Mukul Kishore, Isaac Leung, Yarli Alison, Whisky Chow, Subasri Krishnan, also screening the works of Liao Jiaming, Wang Jun-Jieh, Kayla Nicole Pun and Rob Crosse, as part of a queer Southeast-Asia-focused sub-programme.
Lucía I. King (based in London) and Rashmi Devi Sawhney (based in Bangalore) have co-run the curatorial network, VisionMix since 2014, bringing together artists, filmmakers across India, Southeast Asia, the UK and beyond. The network has produced over 10 major projects which include exhibitions with a focus on moving image, artists’ laboratories and film programmes taking place in India, Taiwan and the UK. For an archive of our projects and associate partners, see visionmix.info.
Devi Sawhney and King also guest edited the journal edition “MIRAJ 7.2, a special issue on South Asian Moving Image”, offering a critical review of artists' moving image produced in South Asia. It covers experimental documentary film histories in India and Pakistan, and their impact on contemporary art practices in and beyond the region; a collection of articles and reviews with contributions from Nancy Adajania, Behroze Gandhy, Avijit Mukul Kishore, Adnan Madani, Khaushik Bhaumik, Shai Heredia and Nicole Wolf, among others.
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ISSN: 20456298
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