Let’s talk, intelligently: Shu Lea Cheang x Kira Xonorika

Artist Kira Xonorika and curator Stamatina Gregory join artist Shu Lea Cheang for a conversation in the context of her exhibition, LOVER, LOVE, currently on view at Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art. Beginning with an exchange of their recent works, Cheang and Xonorika explore shared questions around cosmotechnics, Indigenous knowledge systems, and technological futures beyond Western frameworks.

Moving across robotics, generative AI, and speculative worldbuilding, the conversation considers agency, intelligence, and queer, trans-temporal forms of relation, asking how artistic practice can challenge dominant technological narratives and imagine new ways of living with, and through, technology.

Kira Xonorika—an interdisciplinary artist and author based in Tovaangar (Los Angeles)—brings a practice spanning generative AI, robotics, film, performance, and text, exploring interspecies intelligence, Indigenous sovereignty, and planetary ecologies. In dialogue, the speakers will consider how artistic worldbuilding can intervene in dominant technological narratives and imagine alternative futures.

Shu Lea Cheang—currently based in Paris, is internationally recognized as a pioneer of Internet art. Her work engages feminist and queer perspectives to examine the intersections of sexuality, the body, and digital media, probing how technological systems reshape embodiment under conditions of late capitalism and globalization.

Presented in partnership with the Taipei Cultural Center as part of its 35th anniversary programming, this event is part of a series highlighting Taiwan–U.S. cultural exchange through dialogues between leading artists and cultural voices.

About The Taipei Cultural Center in New York 
The Taipei Cultural Center in New York (TCC), which was established as the first overseas office of Taiwan's Ministry of Culture in 1991, builds connections through arts and culture in New York and throughout North America. Each year, we reach out to art museums, theaters, performing arts centers, film cinemas, festivals, curators, and presenters in the US and Canada. We support international cultural exchanges, collaborations, and artistic events in order to introduce Taiwan's arts and culture to a broader audience.

Accessibility
Chairs with backs will be available. Located at 26 Wooster Street, the Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art strives to provide a welcoming environment to all visitors. Five external steps lead to our entrance doors: a wheelchair lift is available. All galleries are wheelchair-accessible, and a single-occupancy accessible restroom is located behind the visitor services desk: all restrooms are gender-neutral. Large print didactics are available. For questions or access requests, please email info@leslielohman.org with 1 week advance of your visit.