Professor of Cinematic Arts, University of Westminster.
May Adadol INGAWANIJ is a writer, curator, and teacher. Her research explores genealogies of cinematic and media apparatus, potentialities of contemporary artistic and curatorial practices, and the aesthetics and circulation of artists’ moving images, art, and independent films in, around, and beyond Southeast Asia. She co-directs the Centre for Research and Education in Arts and Media. She is the recipient of the British Academy’s Mid-Career Fellowship (2018–19) for her curatorial and publication project Animistic Apparatus (2018–). Her recent English-language publications include “Comedy of Entanglement: The Karrabing Film Collective” (Afterall: A Journal of Art, Context and Enquiry, 2019) and “Making Line and Medium” (Southeast of Now: Directions in Contemporary and Modern Art in Asia, Vol. 3, 2019).