Yuchen Li

Biography

My research project aims to explore the bodys potential to revolt against the capitalist reality through the path of artistic creativity and feminist relationality. Meanwhile, I conduct my musical-art practice under the music project titled World Coda. I was awarded Sigmund Freud Memorial Prize and Paul Ford Prize for my MA academic performance and MA dissertation. The latter was a post-Lacanian-psychoanalytic-informed ethnography with musical artists, aiming to explore the alternative states of subjectivity with a feminist interest. In my first year of postgraduate research, I have presented fragments of my PhD project at Midland Conference of Critical Thoughts and APCS&APS Joint Conference. My presentations respectively focused on a poststructuralist-feminist critique on Cartesian subjectivity situated in scenarios of art production and a psychosocial analysis on the political-empty signifier through the Lacanian concept of trauma. I'm eager to know colleagues with interest in art, critical theory, and similar theoretical approaches.

Qualifications

• B.BA Marketing and Business Administration University of Toronto (2022)

• M.A Psychoanalytic Studies University of Essex (2023)