Christina Yang is an independent curator, scholar, writer, and educator based in New York. A contemporary art, performance, and DEIA specialist, her work focuses on spectatorship, politics of the image, archives, experimental dance, and feminist care. She has filled curatorial roles at the Berkeley Art Museum + Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA), Williams College Museum of Art (WCMA), Guggenheim Museum, Queens Museum and The Kitchen. She served as performance reviews editor at Women + Performance, a journal of feminist theory from 2018-20 as well as on the editorial board from 2015-20. Her dissertation Performance and The Gaze: Spectatorship in The Kitchen Archive, 1974-84 is forthcoming from Tisch School of the Arts, NYU. 

Christina Yang works on topics in visual culture including spectatorship, performance and the camera, the politics of invisibility, and archive practices. She holds two MAs and a BA in art history from CUNY Graduate Center, Williams College and the University of California, Berkeley.

Why PS @ NYU?

I have a longstanding research topic on The Kitchen's Video Archive which I wanted to situate within a theoretical context specifically centered around concerns of performance and its documents as objects, duration, temporality, and subjectivity.