Grounding Practice: The Next Phase with Erin Li

As artists move into new phases of their careers and experience a dip in opportunities and support, curator Erin Li brings together strategies to help artists move beyond existing circles, cultivate new opportunities and relationships, sustain peer support, and think more internationally about their practice.

Rooted in experience across the UK and Asia, supporting over 100 international artists to steer moments of transition, plateau, and growth, Erin draws from curatorial roles at YDP, a project space for Asian and Asian diasporic contemporary art, Delfina Foundation, London's largest provider of international residencies, and Batata, a platform for sharing resources and opportunities with artists.

From building support systems and relationships to how international opportunities and contexts can expand a practice, this salon asks what it means for artists to move beyond a UK-centred “bubble.” Through shared successes and horror stories, artists will leave with new approaches for building support structures and artistic life beyond existing contexts.

About Erin Li

Erin Li 李伊寧 is a London-based curator. Her recent curatorial practice centres around liveness and embodiment, from street dance and live art, live culture in fermentation, to transforming everyday relations, processes and vulnerabilities into transdisciplinary art projects. She is currently Curator (Public Programmes and Residencies) at YDP and founder of Batata, an independent platform that nourishes artists through resources and art industry knowledge.

Erin was previously Curator at Delfina Foundation, where she curated exhibitions, public programmes, and hosted over 100 international residencies. Before putting down roots in London through the Asymmetry Curatorial Fellowship at Whitechapel Gallery, she was Associate Curator at Tai Kwun Contemporary in Hong Kong, Art Manager at Duddell’s (Hong Kong and London) and Project Researcher and Development Coordinator at Asia Art Archive (Hong Kong).