Tiffany Sia

[often thinks of what Pavle Levi said in response to her recent artist talk at Stanford of her film "A Child Already Knows": "And what the child really knows when it comes to images already is that images are, to use your own terminology or language from the film, images are pried up, open only once. And it’s that initial experience of encountering a film or films for the first time or any kind of powerful image at a young age, very impressionable age, which then, throughout the rest of your life, you hopelessly and without success try to recreate, because these images will never, ever strike you the same way. And that’s what I think this film is also about––and this is why I think it’s so beautiful that the personal narrative and personal history is fed through––this problematic of impossible to recreate encounter with images. And thus the endless substitutes. Cartoons, puppets, puppetry, locomotion. There’s something very uncanny about all this because they are and are not working as substitutes." She just finished reading Paul Ginsborg's book "Silvio Berlusconi: Television, Power and Patrimony."]

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    2025

    INTRODUCTION, SUMMER MOVIES FOR SENIORS, Light Industry – New York, NY

    VISITING ARTIST LECTURE IN PHOTOGRAPHY: TIFFANY SIA, Yale School of Art, Yale University – New Haven, CT

    DISTINGUISHED LECTURE IN ASIAN ART IN HONOR OF THE LIJIN COLLECTION, Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University – Stanford, CA

    GUEST LECTURE, Columbia University – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, University of Virginia – Richmond, VA

    GUEST LECTURE, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School – New York, NY

    MODERATOR & RESPONDENT, KARIN CHIEN: TOWARD AN ANALYSIS OF POWER IN STRUCTURES OF NONFICTION AND FILM FINANCING, NEW PUBLIC FORUM, Cooper Union – New York, NY

    ON AND OFF-SCREEN IMAGINARIES, BOOK LAUNCH, ARTIST TIFFANY SIA AND GUEST SPEAKER JEAN MA, The Cube Project Space – Taipei, Taiwan

    2024

    ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Fall Semester, "Language and Cinema," Cooper Union – New York, NY

    WORKSHOP, AFTER HOURS: JORDAN LORD AND TIFFANY SIA "ACCESS, MEDIA LITERACY, AND THE IMAGINABLE," Wendy's Subway – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, NYU Tisch School of the Arts – New York, NY

    READING, OUR BAD PARTY, Triple Canopy – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, UnionDocs Early Production Lab, UNIONDOCS Center for Documentary Art – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, Martin Scorsese Department of Cinema Studies, NYU Tisch School of the Arts – New York, NY

    READER, Chris Marker: Eternal Current Events, Light Industry – New York, NY

    THESIS REVIEW, Institute of American Indian Arts (IAIA) – Santa Fe, NM

    ON AND OFF-SCREEN IMAGINARIES: A CONVERSATION WITH TIFFANY SIA AND AN-MY LÊ, Dia Chelsea (Co-organized with Primary Information and Printed Matter) – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, The Cooper Union – New York, NY

    2023

    GUEST LECTURE, Stanford Department of Art & Art History, Stanford University – Stanford, CA

    GUEST LECTURE, School of Architecture, New Jersey Institute of Technology – Newark, NJ

    GUEST LECTURE, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts, The New School – New York, NY

    THE SOJOURN: AN EVENING WITH TIFFANY SIA, Stanford University – Stanford, CA

    TIFFANY SIA ON AN-MY LÊ, Dia Chelsea – New York, NY

    RESPONDENT WITH SPEAKER LEO GOLDSMITH, OVERSHARING: APPROPRIATION AFTER AI AND THE INTERNET, Sites of Cinema, Columbia University – New York, NY

    FAN HO WEEKEND, Light Industry – New York, NY

    HOW CAN WE GATHER NOW?, Washington Project for the Arts – Washington, DC

    VISITING ARTISTS LECTURE SERIES, UCI CRITICAL THEORY AND UCI ILLUMINATIONS PRESENT | HONG KONG OPEN: TIFFANY SIA IN CONVERSATION WITH SIMON LEUNG, University California, Irvine – Irvine, CA

    SEGUE READING SERIES: NATALIE DIAZ & TIFFANY SIA, Artists Space – New York, NY

    2022

    TIFFANY SIA: DO NOT CIRCULATE, Conversations at the Edge, School of Art Institute of Chicago – Chicago, IL

    ARTISTS ROUNDTABLE, TAKEOVER: ONLINE DISCUSSION WITH MAY ADADOL INGAWANIJ, EPHRAIM ASILI, TIFFANY SIA, AND SRIWHANA SPONG, e-flux – Online

    VISITING ARTIST, ENTANGLED BONDS: WORKING WITH FAMILY IN DOCUMENTARY FILM, UnionDocs, Center for Documentary Art – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, The Institute of Fine Arts, New York University – New York, NY

    티파니 샤와 출라얀논 시리폰의 대화 ARTIST TALK WITH TIFFANY SIA AND CHULAYARNNON SIRIPHOL, Seoul Museum of Art – Seoul, South Korea

    ARTIST TALK, IMU UR2: ART, AESTHETICS, AND ASIAN AMERICA SYMPOSIUM (PANEL ON ART ACTIVISMS WITH GORDON CHANG, HOWIE CHEN, NANCY HOM, ARLAN HUANG), Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University – Stanford, CA

    ARTISTS ROUNDTABLE, FILM COMMENT LIVE: ON THE CRITICAL ATTITUDE (WITH LAURA POITRAS AND ELVIS MITCHELL), New York Film Festival – New York, NY

    ADJUNCT PROFESSOR, Spring 2022 Semester, The Cooper Union – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, Bard College – Annandale-on-Hudson, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, Hong Kong University – Hong Kong

    ARTIST TALK, MARXISM AND MATERIALISM PRESENTS TIFFANY SIA, Rutgers University – New Brunswick, NJ

    GUEST LECTURE, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School – New York, NY

    2021

    ARTISTS ROUNDTABLE, CYNESPOSIA, Anthology Film Archive – New York, NY

    INTRODUCTION, TWO WORKS BY HONG KONG DOCUMENTARY FILMMAKERS, Light Industry – New York, NY

    ARTIST TALK, HOW CAN WE GATHER NOW?, Washington Project for the Arts with support from the Goethe Institute and Eaton Workshop – Washington, DC + online

    GUEST LECTURE, Parsons School of Design – New York, NY

    BOROBAR JAGTANA: THREE FILMS BY SUNEIL SANZGIRI, Pioneer Works x Asia Art Archive in America – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, Harvard University, Department of Art, Film, and Visual Studies – Cambridge, MA

    GUEST LECTURE, Eugene Lang College of Liberal Arts at the New School – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, CCS Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson – New York, NY

    GUEST LECTURE, Hong Kong Baptist University – Hong Kong

    GUEST LECTURE, Cooper Union – New York, NY

    ARTIST TALK, AND BESIDES, IT’S TRUE, SCREENING AND DISCUSSION WITH PAIGE K.B., Triple Canopy x Spectacle – New York, NY + online

    ARTISTS ROUNDTABLE, FOLDING HORIZONS, soft/WALL/studs – Singapore + online

    ARTIST TALK, TOO SALTY TOO WET 更咸更濕 WITH TIFFANY SIA, Printed Matter – New York, NY

    ARTIST TALK, HONG KONG LAUNCH OF TOO SALTY TOO WET: TIFFANY SIA, Tai Kwun Contemporary Art – Hong Kong + online

    ARTIST TALK, AAWW LUNCH, Asian American Writers’ Workshop – Online

    2020

    ARTIST TALK, 更咸更濕 TOO SALTY TOO WET [LEAKED], Printed Matter – New York, NY + online

    ARTIST TALK, SALTY WET 咸濕: A READING BY TIFFANY SIA, Tai Kwun Contemporary Art – Hong Kong

    ARTIST TALK, THE FORUM, The Lab – San Francisco, CA + online

    ARTIST TALK, PROPOSITIONS: TIFFANY SIA IN CONVERSATION, Berwick Film & Media Arts Festival – Berwick-upon-Tweed, UK + online

    ARTIST TALK, ¶ STUDY OBJECT ROOM: TIFFANY SIA, Studio Voltaire London – London, UK + online


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