Part of the Public Program of Sensing the Ways: On Touch, Story, Movement, and Song
An accompaniment to Serena Lee’s Study Sessions on the following Sunday afternoons, and beyond:
23 March, 13 April, 4 May, and 25 May 2025 at Casco Art Institute: Working for the Commons, Lange Nieuwstraat 7, 3512 PA Utrecht
As part of Serena Lee’s contribution to our 2025 Spring program Sensing the Ways: On Touch, Story, Movement, and Song, we present the Lines and Fields Lookbook – a companion to her artistic research.
Serena’s proposal is a framework for embodied study wherein different lines of thinking and making intersect with her research on taijiquan. In this context, the Lines and Fields Lookbook gathers a constellation of texts that offer deeper insight into her study and conversational research trajectories, making them accessible to the public.
Among these materials is Serena’s dissertation How the line curves, which informs her artistic proposal at Casco – each Study Session focuses on two of the eight chapters.
Study Session #1 with Lee Su-Feh and Magdalena Górska (23 March): 氣 Process and 勁 Force
Study Session #2 with Joy Mariama Smith (13 April): 打 Play and 們 With
Study Session #3 with Rajni Shah (4 May): 無 Non- and 意 Tend
Study Session #4 with Nuraini Juliastuti (25 May): 回 Return and 理 Trace
Serena’s writings were developed within the framework of her PhD-in-Practice at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. We are sharing chapters on-site at Casco’s Library and via this link.
Within Casco’s Library, a collection of publications and textual references that shape and inform Serena’s research practice—and which gravitate around her Study Partners—is also available for consultation. These resources remain accessible throughout the exhibition period. They include:
Simpson, Leanne Betasamosake. As We Have Always Done. Indigenous Freedom Through Radical Resistance. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2017.
Hui, Yuk. Art and Cosmotechnics. Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, 2021.
Smith, Joy Mariama. “Not: Not Contact Improvisation” in Resistance and Support, edited by Ann Cooper Albright. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 2024.
Juliastuti, Nuraini. Stories of Wounds and Wonder. Amsterdam: If I Can’t Dance, I Don’t Want to be Part of Your Revolution, 2024.
Juliastuti, Nuraini. Commons Museums. Pedagogies for Taking Ownership of What is Lost. Berlin: Berlin Press, 2024.
Juliastuti, Nuraini. “Home, Food” in Domestic Notes, Volume 001. Reading Sideways Press, 2018.
Juliastuti, Nuraini. “Art, Travel, and Brief Visitations” in Domestic Notes, Volume 002. Reading Sideways Press, 2019.
Jullien, François. From Being to Living (de l’Être au Vivre) a Euro-Chinese lexicon of thought. Translated by Michael Richardson and Krysztof Fijalkowski. Los Angeles and London: SAGE.
Muñoz Galeano, Oscar. The Tree, the Tiger and the Dragon. Life Experiences in the Practice of Qigong and Taijiquan. Amsterdam, 2022.
Narayan, Kirin. Alive in the Writing. Crafting Ethnography in the Company of Chekhov. Chicago and London: The University of Chicago Press, 2012. Suggested by Nuraini Juliastuti.
Smith, Joy Mariama. “[the s̶p̶e̶l̶l̶smell of consent]” in Sensing Earth. Cultural Quests Across a Heated Globe, edited by Philipp Dietachmair, Pascal Gielen, and Giorgia Nicolau. Amsterdam: Valiz, 2023.
Yen, Yuehping. Calligraphy and Power in Contemporary Chinese Society. London and New York: Routledge, 2025.
* This is a working list, updated periodically with suggestions and restructuring.
