Selected Lectures and Conference Presentations

"Interruption of Hierarchies: The Academy and the Gallery," Intervene! Interrupt! Rethinking Art as Social Practice, University of California, Santa Cruz, CA, 2008

"Love/Sick," 17th Annual Matrilineage Symposium, Syracuse University, Syracuse, NY, 2008

"Opening Interruptus," Clark and Getty Symposium "Art History and the Present," Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles, CA, 2008

"Love/Sick," College Art Association Conference, New York, NY, 2007

"Mourning, Malady, Memoirs of Björk-Geisha"
Trans: A Visual Studies Conference, University of Wisconsin-Madison, WI, 2006
Reni Celeste Memorial Lecture, University of Rochester, NY, 2006

"Performing Language, Speech, Gesture: Theresa Hak Kyung Cha", Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, 2005

"Rock, Scissors, Paper: Art School Orientalism," American Studies Association, Washington DC, 2005

"Looking Matters: Visual Culture, Pedagogy, and Asian American Studies," Association for Asian American Studies, Los Angeles, CA, 2005

"Sick, Exotic, and Outta Control: Ecstasies of Queer Performance"
Gender, Technology, and Performativity Conference, Lancaster University, UK, 2005
InterseXions: Queer Visual Culture, CUNY Graduate Center, NY, 2005
Joshibi University of Art and Design, Tokyo, Japan, 2004
Kyoto University of Art and Design, Kyoto, Japan, 2004
Performance Studies international, Singapore, 2004

"Art as Subversive Imagination," keynote address, Department of Art Graduation Ceremony, University of California, Berkeley, 2004

"Miming the Old Masters"
Sexuality After Foucault, University of Manchester, England, 2003
Association for Theatre in Higher Education, New York, NY, 2003
Association for Asian American Studies, San Francisco, CA, 2003

"Traumatic Repetition," Center for Gender Studies, University of Chicago, IL, 2002

"eFORUM: A Pilot Project in Interactive Multimedia for Asian Pacific American Studies," Association for Asian American Studies, Toronto, 2001

"Performance Art Pedagogy," Performative Sites: Intersecting Art, Technology, and the Body, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, 2000

"Open Wounds," Matters of Representation: Feminism, Theory, & the Arts, State University of New York, Buffalo, NY, 2000

"If I Had A Hammer: The Spectacle of Pain in Performance" Performance Studies international, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ, 2000

"Three on a Match: Race, Trauma, Collaborative Performance"
Testimonial Culture & Feminist Agendas, University of Lancaster, England, 1999
Oral Fixations, George Washington University, D.C., 1999
College Art Association, Los Angeles, CA, 1999

"Pain as a Symptom of (Not) Dying: Sick: The Life and Death of Bob Flanagan, Supermasochist"
Modern Languages Association, San Francisco, CA, 1998
Visible Evidence: Documentary Film, San Francisco State University, 1998

"Performing Illness as/and Collaboration"
Conference on Social Theory, Politics & the Arts, UC Santa Barbara, CA, 1995
Conference of the Association for Integrative Studies, Phoenix, AZ, 1995
Society for Cinema Studies, New York, NY, 1995

"Self-Portraiture as De-Facement"
Interstitial Spaces: A Conference with Homi Bhabha, Dartmouth College, NH, 1994
Viewpoints Lecture Series, Memorial Art Gallery, Rochester, NY, 1994
Spring Lecture Series with Coco Fusco, Colgate University, NY, 1994
College Art Association, New York, NY, 1994

"Double Bind: Cultures in Surgery/Cultural Insurgency" Console-ing Passions: Television, Video & Feminism, Tucson, AZ, 1994

"Face as Locality: Site/Sight of Identity & Difference," Space Matters: Interdisciplinary, Rutgers University, NJ, 1993

"Political Correctness: What’s Feminism Got To Do With It?" Feminist Art and Art History, Barnard College, NY, 1993