Solvig Choi

Profile

After studying Chinese for my bachelor’s degree, I spent significant time in China and Korea. I returned to Britain five years ago and started volunteering at a museum. I began in the education department and produced content for activities and events—including an interactive murder mystery across three sites. I moved to the curation department and helped with displays. I also produced my first exhibition on Paupers and Philanthropists. 

I am currently working on a short documentary about the film director Tina Gharavi.

Research interests

I am a Collaborative Doctoral Program student with the University of Leeds and the National Science and Media Museum. I research  the ontological connections between museum storeroom objects and the outside world. I focus specifically on a 1921 ‘kine-camera made by Arthur Newman at his workshop in Highgate, Islington and used by Captain John Noel to film the first British expedition to Mount Everest in 1922. I employ Karen Barad’s Agential Realist apparatuses to follow the waves of connections outwards from the museum storeroom in Bradford across time and space, in so doing producing intra-actions that generate new material phenomena and increased participation.

 

• participatory practice
• practice as research
• Agential Realism and the wave function
• Early film cameras
• Mountains, especially the Himalaya
• Yorkshire
• material culture
• museum collections

Qualifications

• MA Literary Linguistics (University of Nottingham)
• BA Chinese and Management (SOAS and Birkbeck)