Alice Ming Wai Jim is an associate professor of contemporary art at Concordia University in Montreal. She is co-editor of the journal Asian Diasporic Visual Cultures and the Americas (Brill). Recent publications include contributions to Third Text, Public, Journal of Curatorial Studies, Journal of Visual Culture, Amerasia Journal, Positions, Yishu Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art, "Dealing with Chiastic Perspectives : Global Art Histories in Canada"" in Negotiations in a Vacant Lot : Studying the Visual in Canada (2014), "20 Years of 'Departure Lounge Art' : Airplanes, Airports and Visa Centres in Contemporary Art, in Triennial City : Localising Asian Art (2014) and "Love the Future : Ai Weiwei and Art for Human Rights, in Human Rights and the Arts: Essays on Global Asia (2014).