EventsThe New Social Environment#1293

Likenesses: Speaking with the Selves

Featuring Zach Feldman, Li-Ming Hu, Charmaine Poh, and Chloe Stagaman

Friday, November 14, 2025 1 p.m. Eastern / 10 a.m. Pacific

These free events are produced by The Brooklyn Rail.

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Curator Zachary B. Feldman and artists Li-Ming Hu and Charmaine Poh join Rail Director of Programs Chloe Stagaman for a conversation on Zoom. 

Zachary B. Feldman

A photo of Zachary B. Feldman on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Zachary B. Feldman is a curator, writer, and scholar of media art and is currently the Curator of Visual Arts and Programs at Goethe-Institut New York. He holds a joint-Ph.D. in Comparative Media and German Studies from Vanderbilt University and was a Helena Rubenstein Fellow in Curatorial Studies at the Whitney Independent Study Program from 2022-23. He has guest curated exhibitions and screenings at e flux Screening Room (New York), Artists Space (New York), the National Gallery of Art (D.C.), and more.

Li-Ming Hu

A photo of Li-Ming Hu on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Li-Ming Hu is a multidisciplinary artist working with installation, video, and performance. Drawing on her experience in the entertainment industry, Hu explores the relationships between cultural production and the construction of subjectivities, engaging with the imperatives of our high-performance culture. She holds an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, has attended residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, the International Studio and Curatorial Program, Flux Factory, the Wassaic Project and Enjoy Contemporary Art Space (NZ). She has exhibited and performed widely throughout New Zealand, Chicago and NYC.

Charmaine Poh 傅秀璇

A photo of Charmaine Poh 傅秀璇 on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Charmaine Poh 傅秀璇 is an artist working across film, photography, media and performance to peel apart, re-examine, and hold ideas of agency, repair, and the body across worlds. She aligns herself with strategies of visibility, opacity, deviance, and futurity. Based between Berlin and Singapore, she is a co-founder of the magazine Jom and a member of the Asian Feminist Studio for Art and Research (AFSAR). She was a participating artist in the 60th Venice Biennale: Foreigners Everywhere and was awarded Deutsche Bank’s 2025 Artist of the Year and the 2026 Villa Romana Prize.

Chloe Stagaman

A photo of Chloe Stagaman on The Brooklyn Rail's New Social Environment

Chloe Stagaman is a Brooklyn-based curator and writer. Since 2022, she has been the Director of Programs at the Brooklyn Rail, where she organizes the journal’s weekday conversation series The New Social Environment.

We’d like to thank The Marion Boulton Kippy Stroud Foundation and Teiger Foundation for making these conversations possible, and for their support of our growing archive 🌈✨

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