In Conversation with Kai Syng Tan

InDialogue

An introduction to the unstoppable Dr Kai Syng Tan FRSA SFHEA Programme Leader, MA/MFA Executive Arts Leadership who's been involved in over 900 shows and who I'm in conversation with here, take a look at the quote below and the website link. This is an improvised, stimulating and hyperactive but relaxed conversation about messy entanglements and tentacularity, no less. Needless to say, the link between contemporary fine arts and dialogue is crucial, as I realised some 12 years ago and find in Kai a kindred spirit...

"I use artistic/creative practices and research, interdisciplinary and intercultural dialogues and collaborations as processes of interrogation and expression, to energise, disrupt, connect, and catalyse new conversations towards change. I mobilise the body and mind in motion as modes of creative intervention to trouble and trespass borders/silos/‘norms’ (geopolitical, disciplinary, cultural) amid a world in motion/commotion. Scampering within/between/across crevices and boundaries, I engineer spaces of ‘productive antagonisms’ (Latham and Tan 2016) in a distinctive ‘ill-disciplined’ (Tan & Asherson 2018) approach, gathering diverse and divergent bodies and bodies of knowledge to generate new insights to issues/tasks. There are multiple, overlapping strands, including around: leadership, running, mind wandering and neurodiversity, (im)mobilities and borders, disability, health, gender and technology." - KS

Kai is currently working on a project to theorise neurodivergent leadership.

https://www.art.mmu.ac.uk/profile/kstan