︎︎︎ Other Things (2022)

Other Things is an installation of paper cutouts. In it, personal reflections are written on silk paper and then cut out. I wanted to find a way to still bring words into the world, but in a gentler and more perishable form – as a way of still speaking, while also leaving necessary room for vulnerability and doubt.

Exhibited At:
Material Memory, Spinnerei, Germany
The Faraway Nearby, Art and Market (A&M), Singapore

Reviews and Responses
Wong Kar Mun Nicole for A&M, "Review of Art and Market Small Rooms"
Jonathan Chan for A&M, “so imminent yet so beyond reach”
Miriam Devaprasana for A&M, “An Ode to Truth Which Binds Us All”
Amar Shahid for A&M, “An afternoon of reconciliation”

︎︎︎ Across a Small Distance (2021)

Across a Small Distance is a performance about resisting technology’s need for huge impact and far reach, instead focusing on the small, short, and simple. We sent messages to each other. We played badminton in a room.

Collaborator:
Chew Shaw En

First Performed At:
starch

Incubated and Process Documented By:
Feelers

︎︎︎ Light Gets In (2020-2021)

First conceptualised for Fujinoyama Biennale, Light Gets In thinks through Mt. Fuji for its symbolic and geographic weight. Created amidst lockdowns, the work is scored as a relay of 3 prompts across 2 countries, and is an exercise in framing hugeness in small, human-scale gestures.

Exhibited At:
Fujinoyama Biennale 2020
ON/OFF/SCREEN, Deck, Singapore

Project Website:
www.lightgetsin.cargo.site (Eng) / www.lightgetsinjp.cargo.site (Jap)

︎︎︎ Tomorrow’s Islands (2019)

Tomorrow’s Islands is an performance-installation about movement, connection, and attention. Using land reclamation as a subject, the work parallels the migration and compaction of sand with the displacement and reconstitution of transient communities.

Collaborators:
Kei Franklin, Jungsuh Sue Lim

Supported By:
Incheon Foundation Art and Culture (IFAC) Young Artist Grant

Presented At:
Incheon Art Platform, South Korea

︎︎︎ What Comes After (2019)

Based off field work around floods in Chiang Mai, What Comes After is a participatory performance that considers the many ways a community experiences and understands a flood through myth and memory – and the possibilities for rebuilding.

Collaborators:
Kei Franklin, Jungsuh Sue Lim

Exhibited In:
Chiang Mai Urban Flooding Field Lab, an arts and technology un-conference exploring design practices in disaster risk management.

︎︎︎ Songs of Companionship (2019)

Songs of Companionship is an audiovisual installation about loving. It is a reflection on our relationships, dependencies, and engagements with those dear to us – the emotions certain and tentative, gestures given and withheld, and gambles won and lost.

Enginnering Support:
Jonas Chandra

Animation Support:
Janel Ang

Exhibited In:
Esplanade Flipside Festival 2019

︎︎︎ Correspondences (2018)

Correspondences is an audio-guided experience for two strangers, built around stranger-intimacies with others who co-inhabit a dense city. How much connection can there be, despite our physical proximity, if we never speak? How long will you stay?

Artist Collaborator:
Wong Hui Yu

Exhibited In:
Concerned Citizens Showcase, The Substation, Singapore

︎︎︎ Measuring the Earth (2017)

Measuring the Earth takes the form of a group exercise: navigating and walking and together to a distant location, without a map. Inspired by ideas of distance and traversal, Measuring the Earth is about getting from here to there – wherever here is, and wherever there may be.

Supported By and Presented At:
PARADISE AIR Short Stay Residency, Matsudo, Japan

︎︎︎ [i carry (2017)

[i carry is a performance-installation that reacts to lift movements in an urban area, over a 24-hour cycle. Lift movements are taken as analogue for daily activity, and the work considers the hidden labours that support our routine. In framing the lifts as literal and metaphorical carriages, I wanted to ask: who or what carries us, and who or what do we carry in return?

Exhibited In:
Yale-NUS College Capstone Showcase, Singapore
Celeste Prize 2017, Oxo Tower, London

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