REFLECT PRACTICE REFLECT 3 - The taxonomy of practice
This workshop explores the words, definitions, terms that define what we do as artist, makers, designers through the research process. You will develop a taxonomy of making (of sorts) to enable you to connect your thinking to your actions, explore how to speak from a situated and embodied practice, and how this leads to new discoveries. The activities are framed by an intersectional approach to centring lived experience to analyse power dynamics and structural bias often hidden and in plain site.
Facilitator: Dr Yuen Fong Ling is an artist and curator based at Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield
Free to attend, but registration is required.
Please email the team at [email protected] if you have questions about access.
REFLECT PRACTICE REFLECT, 21 May - 4 June
This session is part of the REFLECT PRACTICE REFLECT online workshop series facilitated the Decolonising Arts Institute at the University of the Arts, London (DeAI) and taking place at 12-1pm GMT on the following Thursdays:
21 May 'Articulating positionality: the invisible labour of access in academic writing' with Dr Martine Rouleau
28 May 'The occluded practice of peer review' with Dr Victoria Odeniyi
REFLECT PRACTICE REFLECT is part of BREAKING THROUGH: Support for global majority researchers and creative practitioners navigating the journey to scholarly publication, a programme co-organised by the UAL Decolonising Arts Institute (DeAI) and the Feminist Review Collective hosting weekly online workshops from 30 April to 5 June 2026. All events are free to attend, but registration is required.
Click here for the full programme and links to register.
CONTRIBUTORS
Dr Yuen Fong Ling is an artist and curator based at Yorkshire Art Space, Sheffield. He graduated from BA Fashion/Textiles Liverpool John Moores University 1994, MFA at Glasgow School of Art 2007 and completed his PhD by Practice 'A Body of Relations: Reconfiguring the Life Class' University of Lincoln 2016. He has a multidisciplinary approach to socially engaged and performance-based art practice. Recent projects explore the construction of identity through the interpretation and production of others, where historical narrative and the artist’s body and biography, (as gay, male, working class, British born, of Hong Kong heritage) playfully intersect. Ling is currently developing 'The Fold' part of 'Collections in Dialogue' Commission 2027 at Leeds Art Gallery, Henry Moore Institute and The British Library, telling his family’s migration story from Hong Kong to UK in 1960s, through the artist book and sculpture collections. Recently, 'RE/ASSEMBLE' People’s History Museum throughout 2026, curated by IAP:MCR responding to the Stop Clause 28 March in Manchester 1988, and 'We are the Monument' Grave Gallery 2024-25, part of UAL’s Decolonising Art Institute’s '20/20 Project' examining the motif of the empty plinth in Sheffield Museums Collection to consider the removal of the Colston Statue, Bristol in 2020. Ling was Senior Lecturer and Post Graduate Research Tutor at Sheffield Hallam University 2010-2016.
The UAL Decolonising Arts Institute (DeAI) seeks to challenge imperial legacies, ongoing colonial violence, and disrupting ways of seeing, listening, thinking, and making to drive cultural, social and institutional change. We imagine the Institute as a decentred, disruptive, evolving and porous space. As the Institute evolves, we aim to amplify local and global movements to decolonise and address the complex genealogies and geographies of postcolonial, decolonial and intersectional thinking and practice.
The Feminist Review Collective edits and publishes Feminist Review, a pioneering interdisciplinary journal that explores gender in its multiple forms and interrelationships with other social categories and systems of power, publishing accessible knowledge and timely interventions that build on the work of Black, Indigenous, decolonial, and transnational feminist struggles. Publishing since 1979, Feminist Review has a global editorial board and readership, and currently prints and distributes in partnership with Sage Publications Ltd. The Feminist Review Collective is committed to inspiring exchanges of ideas and explorations of praxis that address, disrupt, and break through structural violence to make and nurture communities, connections, and ways of sharing knowledge founded on mutual respect, kindness, and care. We are committed to building, living, and extending a space of radical feminist practice that places care at its heart.
Image credit: Obentō no Jikan, Otomi Larcher, 2022 MA Graphic Communication Design, Central Saint Martins, UAL