Karen Leong

Karen Leong is a Hong Kong-born writer, journalist and critic. Drawn to reclamation and desire, her body of work operates as semiotic storytellers across art, film and fashion. Alongside her written practice, Karen works across performance and media in bridging the juncture between film and text. You can find more of her work on Vice Asia, Astrophe Magazine, Leste Magazine, and @karen.gif.

Karen Leong's Latest Articles

Live Futures. Image is a leather clad woman on all fours and a half seen person with their foot on her behind with some bondage rope.
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Live Futures: an inquiry of queer sex and play

When we look for sex and play, where do we go? ArtsHub attends 'Live Futures: Queer Cultural Safety and Existential…

Nighttime Righttime. Image is three women dressed in light gold shimmering one-pieces with sashes, gyrating in a large empty room.
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Performance review: Nighttime Righttime, Carriageworks

Presented as part of Performance Space’s Liveworks Festival, ‘Nighttime Righttime’ was a syncopated medley of the wonderfully odd.

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Film reviews: Flora on the Sand (1964) and Juvenile Jungle (1956), Japanese Film Festival

The feature of a retrospective at the 2023 Japanese Film Festival, Kō Nakahira was a filmmaker who interrogated themes of…

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Dance review: Angela Goh Axe Arch Echo, AGNSW

Goh's meta-narrative of obstruction and negative space projected intrigue in fearful symmetry.

Deloitte x Art Pharmacy collection. A painting of bold coloured blocks is on the wall with chairs and tables in the foreground.
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Regeneration: empowering artists with a landmark art collection

Deloitte worked with Art Pharmacy to curate a new art collection in the award-winning Quay Quarter Tower, Sydney. ArtsHub takes…

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Film review: Little Blue, Taiwan Film Festival in Australia

Lee Yi Fang's 'Little Blue' is a mediation on female desire through the dreamy lens of adolescence.

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Theatre review: Miss Peony, Belvoir Theatre

A generational and intercultural clash is played out in the competitive flurry of a beauty pageant.

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Peers and portals

A triptych of vignettes about three of Sydney’s emerging oil painters and their voyages of identity.

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Performance review: City of Angels, Hayes Theatre

An irreverent pastiche of the Golden Age of Hollywood and the writers who created it.

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