Tami Xiang

Tami Xiang serves as an Adjunct Research Fellow at UWA Design School, The University of Western Australia. Her work bridges Chinese-Australian artistic practice and academic research with international recognition.

She holds a Masters of Fine Arts and a PhD by research, both completed at UWA. Her academic journey reflects deep engagement with transnational cultural dialogues.

Research focuses on Chinese contemporary art with specialization in Beijing, Accelerationism, and Contemporary Art traditions. Recent outputs explore China's youth culture, censorship mechanisms, and cross-strait artistic flows through photographic and curatorial practices.

Her publications demonstrate consistent evolution from 2018 to 2025, moving from foundational studies on Sino-Taiwan artistic relations toward cutting-edge analyses of accelerationism and youth opt-out movements in contemporary China. Methodologically, she blends visual anthropology with critical political theory.

Award highlights include:

• Margaret and Herbert Horsfall Memorial Bursary (2020)
• Australian Government Research Training Program Scholarship (2019)

Xiang actively engages with public scholarship through national workshops and media contributions. Her projects like Peasantography document marginalized communities while securing research funding through competitive national scholarships. Current activities focus on intergenerational trauma in Chinese diaspora communities.

She leads collaborative projects with institutions like ACIAC and Western Sydney University, developing community-based artistic interventions around 'left-behind' children in rural China.