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Tianyu Jiang BA MA Projektmitarbeiter_in
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Tianyu Jiang (they/them, she/her) is a PhD candidate at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna. Their doctoral project is an ethnography on the recent years’ proliferating underground queer and women-centered music scenes in Shanghai. Their main research interests include electronic dance music culture, digital culture, urban space/place, and time-based media. In addition to research, they are a writer, film critic, and programmer, with works published on Frieze and Talking Shorts, and an ongoing contribution to Cinema Queer Stockholm.
Education
MA (2019) in Cinema Studies, Stockholm University
BA (2017) in Chinese Language and Literature, Zhejiang University
Publication
Jiang, T. (2025, forthcoming). “Queering Death, Desire, and Intimacy: The Cinematic Ecology in Lou Ye’s Spring Fever”, in Routledge International Handbook of Queer Death Studies, edited by Nina Lykke, Tara Mehrabi, and Marietta Radomska. Routledge.
Jiang, T. (2025). Book Review: Contemporary Queer Chinese Art by Bao Hongwei, Mergenthaler Diyi and Zhao Jamie J. DIY, Alternative Cultures & Society, 0(0). https://doi.org/10.1177/27538702251317563.
Jiang, T. (2024). Finding Shelter: Recollections of Shanghai’s Underground Music Scene in the 2010s. Dancecult: Journal of Electronic Dance Music Culture, 16(1). https://doi.org/10.12801/1947-5403.2024.16.01.09.
Selected Presentations
2025.5 “Practicing Feminism in Shanghai’s Electronic Music Scene: Strategies and Challenges,” Music, Research, and Activism II: Solidarities and Urgencies, University of Helsinki, Finland.
2025.1 “Streaming, Mixing, Archiving: Independent Radio Stations and Electronic Dance Music Scenes in Shanghai,” Dancecult Conference, Technische Universität Berlin, Berlin.
2024.11 “NIGHT(S)-Science: An Academic View on Nightlife,” keynote and panel discussion, Vienna After Dark Conference, Vienna Club Commission, Austria.
2024.7 “‘Do You Know When the Drag Performance Starts?’: Experiencing the Queer Club Night in Shanghai,” KISMIF Conference, University of Porto, Portugal.
2023.8 “Experimenting Sonic Ties: The Transdisciplinary Creative Practices of Shanghai Community Radio (SHCR),” isaScience, Sonic Ties: Rethinking Communities and Collectives, University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna, hybrid.
2021.9 “Queer Asia and Queer Film Festivals in Europe: An (Auto)-ethnographic Approach,” roundtable “Sensations, Affects, Visuality,” Queer Asia as Method, King’s College London, online.
Selected writings
2025 Essay, Lost in Words: On the Failure and Promise of Language, Talking Shorts.
2025 Exhibition press, “Performance Art in Italy in 1970s” in Greta Schödl: Street Poetry, Phileas - The Austrian Office for Contemporary Art, Vienna.
2024 Research, Experiencing and Archiving the Club Scene in Shanghai, mdw Magazine.
2022 Interview, They Never Figured I could be a Dangerous Konkurrenz, with DJ Electric Indigo (female:pressure), electronic music label Scandal.