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Prof. LIM Kok Wai Benny

Prof. LIM Kok Wai Benny

Associate Professor of Practice in Cultural Management

M.F.A (LABA, Italy), M.I.H.T (GMU, Italy),
LL.M. (UCLan, UK), Ph.D. (USW, UK)

About Prof. LIM Kok Wai Benny

Benny Lim is Associate Professor of Practice in Cultural Management and Director of the MA in Cultural Management Programme at the Chinese University of Hong Kong (CUHK). Prior to his current roles, he held executive leadership positions at KDU University College (now University of Wollongong Malaysia) and Berjaya University College in Malaysia. He has also served as Visiting Professor at The Design School, Taylor’s University, Malaysia (2021–2024), Adjunct Professor at UniPegaso, Italy (2019–2023), Visiting Scholar at the Institute of Cultural Industries, Peking University (2019–2020), and Honorary Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, University of Nottingham Malaysia (2019). He has been invited to deliver lectures at numerous universities and arts institutions in Greater China and internationally.

 

Benny has served in governance and advisory roles for various arts organisations. He is a member of the Programme Sub-committee of The TENG Company in Singapore and the Advisory Board of the University Arts Centre, CUHK Shenzhen. In 2023, he was appointed by the Hong Kong Arts Development Council as Arts Advisor (Arts Administration) and Examiner (Drama) for a three-year term. He has also had collaborations with Macao, including developing the first certificate programme in Performing Arts Events Management for the Institute of Tourism Studies (now Macao University of Tourism) in 2015, which ran in 2016 and 2017. He was a trainer for the Macao Fringe Festival 2022 and was involved in selecting programmes for the 2025 edition.

 

Since 2001, Benny has worked as producer and director on numerous original theatre productions and arts festivals, often addressing issues affecting marginalised communities. As a performance maker, he has developed a substantial body of work exploring various dimensions of performing the ‘self’. In 2021, he initiated the ‘Art and Aging’ project and has since launched a series of drama workshops and developed a Cantonese-language Arts Resource Hub for seniors.

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  • Research Interests
    • Arts and Cultural Management
    • Cultural Policies
    • Arts and Social Change
    • Performance Studies
    • Digital Culture
    • Higher Education
  • Recent Research ProjectS
    • 2021 – Present: Co-Principal Investigator, “An Ecology of Care for the Arts: Arts practices, policy making and arts pedagogy”. (Co-PI: Dr Elizabeth de Roza)
    • 2020 – Present: Principal Investigator/ Cultural Studies Impact Coordinator, “Art and Aging”, Faculty of Arts’ Project Impact Enhancement Fund (1st and 2nd Instalments), Development of Impact Case Funding, and CRS Research Fund.
    • 2015 – 2016: Principal Investigator, “Performing Arts Festivals in Hong Kong – Issues and Challenges”, CUHK’s Direct Grant for Research, HK$96,900.
  • Selected Publications
    Books and Edited/Co-edited Books
    1. Lim, Benny, Chan, Anna CY, and Yu, Kwok Lit Louis (Eds.). (Forthcoming). Culture and Sustainability in East and South East Asia. Cham: Springer. (Contract awarded)
    2. Lim, Benny & de Roza, Elizabeth (Forthcoming). An Ecology of Care for the Arts: Arts practices, policy making and arts pedagogy. Champaign, IL: Common Ground Research Networks. (Contract awarded)
    3. Lim, Benny (2024). Bridging Cultures. Hong Kong: Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
    4. Lim, Benny & Ho, Hing-kay Oscar (Eds.) (October 2021). Empower Arts, Animate Communities. Hong Kong: Department of Cultural and Religious Studies, the Chinese University of Hong Kong.
    5. 何慶基，林國偉 (聯合主編)( 2017 年)《藝術與社群》。 香港中文大學文化及宗教研究系。ISBN 978-988-77228-1-6.
    6. 何慶基，林國偉 (聯合主編)( 2016 年)《中介位置》。香港中文大學文化及宗教研究系。 ISBN 978-988-77228-0-9.

    Selected Articles in Books/Journals
    1. Lim, Benny (2024). Cultural Districts and Tourism in Hong Kong: A Case Study of West Kowloon Cultural District. In: Wong, TC., See, HP., Milligan, M. (eds) Cultural Tourism in the Asia Pacific. Cham: Springer. 
    2. Lim, Benny (2022). The Monetisation of Intellectual Property in Singapore’s Performing Arts. Journal of Arts Management, 4, 100-110.
    3. Lim, Benny (2022). Beyond Size and Scale: Reflections on Small Performing Arts Organizations. RICE Journal of Creative Entrepreneurship and Management, 3(1), 55-65.
    4. Lim, Benny (2021). Coronavirus disruptions to the private higher education sector in Malaysia In J. S. McKeown, K. Bista, & R. Y. Chan (Eds.), Global higher education during COVID-19: Policy, society, and technology, 92-103. STAR Scholars.
    5. Lim, Benny (2019). A Postmodern Approach to Curating and Managing Arts Festivals. In William Byrnes and Aleksandar Brkić (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Arts Management, 263-275. London: Routledge.
    6. Lim, Benny, Cheng, Meggy, and Chou, Wai-In Rebecca (2019). Fundraising for classical music: Case studies from Hong Kong and Macao. In William Byrnes and Aleksandar Brkić (Eds.) The Routledge Companion to Arts Management, 425-437. London: Routledge.
    7. Lim, Benny & Chua, Lian Choon (2018). Malaysia’s Theatre and its Circuit of Culture. Critical Stages/Scènes critiques - The IATC journal/Revue de l'AICT, 18.
    8. Lim, Benny (2018). Representations of Hong Kong’s West Kowloon Cultural District by Local English Newspapers. Southeast Asia: A Multidisciplinary Journal. Vol. 18, pp. 44-54. UBD FASS
    9. Lim, Benny (2018). Postmodern Self-Reflexive Drama and the Deconstruction of Space - Case Studies from Singapore, Malaysia and Hong Kong. In Vladislava Fekete and Zuzana Uličianska (Eds.) Contemporary Drama and Performative space: from Playwriting to Immersive Theatre, 115-135. Bratislava (Slovakia): Theatre Institute Bratislava.

     

  • SELECTED CREATIVE AND CURATORIAL WORKS
    Selected Festival Curation/ Direction
    1. Along the Edge Arts Festival (2018 – 2020, Hong Kong)
    2. Saving the Past for the Future Festival (2017, Hong Kong)
    3. We Gain, We Lose Arts Festival (2016, Hong Kong)
    4. Umbrella Festival (2015, Hong Kong)
    5. Moving Sounds; Leisure Motions Arts Festival (2014, Hong Kong)
    6. Initiation International Performance Festival (2005 – 2007, Singapore)
    Selected Performance Projects
    1. Solitude (2023, Hong Kong)
    2. Hektomeron Project – Singapore (2021, Romania)
    3. What Have I Learned in Hong Kong? Series (2016 – 2019, Hong Kong)
    4. Diaspora Series (2011 & 2012, Malaysia)
    5. Human Lefts Series (2005 – 2009, Singapore and USA)
    6. Death.Mother Series (2004 – 2008, Singapore and Hong Kong)

 

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Prof. Lim Kok Wai Benny  | Research keywords in Cultural Studies: Performing Arts

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