https://www.yanikong.com/welcome daily 1.0 2025-01-14 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d98dee2874ae165c1581846/1623359720633-YB3T5SW9OZ2DCN0CFNC7/0461C2FA-A08A-464B-9741-F621C7B3DFA2.jpeg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d98dee2874ae165c1581846/1623361013498-EPJ25WTRYNIH04T5SFZV/IMG_6134.jpeg Welcome In my academic practice, I develop a methodology for viewing contemporary art that utilizes Spinozan Ethics to centre the powers of the viewing body as it encounters an artwork. Thinking about these encounters as singular events. I theorize how we combine with the art we see, learn from it, and move these capacities elsewhere. Drawing from philosophies of vitalism and other theories of interconnection and dynamism, I see these practices of viewing as staging the ground for enchantment in an otherwise disenchanted world. When I look at art, I begin with the research questions, What does this work do to me? Does it increase or diminish my capacities, and in what ways? This forms the ground for my arts writing and criticism, where I use my body as an affective guide to explore art, and what it can reproduce in the world. I am a mixed race person of Asian descent. My aim is to centre non-white artists, and feminist and queer perspectives in my work. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d98dee2874ae165c1581846/1623360082411-JOJC2DJ5VMJEPIFESDXI/IMG_6720.jpeg Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58d00f106b8f5b01c8e73f52/1491858366054-VN3632LUL8YNY0SH4RCQ/color-3.png Welcome https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d98dee2874ae165c1581846/1623360567483-PUDNSJQORU154D07WBFH/IMG_3190.jpeg Welcome