Karen Yu | MetaMaps Workshop #2: Multimodal Mapping in the Arts

A sound artist and curator based in Hong Kong, Karen Yu’s interests revolve around improvisation with sound objects and bodily movement, and how artistic practices and personal contributions could weave people together in a space through collaborations. With a background in contemporary percussion performance, Yu is currently the Artistic Director of Contemporary Musiking Hong Kong, a Co-Founder of the chamber percussion group, The Up:Strike Project, and an Associate Musician of Hong Kong New Music Ensemble.

She was an artist-in-residence at the Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity and Seoul Dance Center, and commissioned recently by the Hong Kong Arts Centre & Castlefield Gallery, Axel Vervoordt Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong New Music Ensemble, and Hong Kong West Kowloon Cultural District Freespace. Karen Yu obtained a Bachelor and a Master of Music from McGill University. She is an instrumental instructor at the University of Hong Kong and part-time lecturer at the Hong Kong Academy for Performing Arts School of Theatre & Entertainment Arts.