A girl chats with her scorching twin and future murderer, seeking out answers to her drive to scrape the world’s surfaces for fateful signs. A performative reading incorporating user-generated subliminal content, song lyrics, and material from a forthcoming erotic thriller. Delivered with synthetic voice, CGI film, and an experimental score.
Commissioned for HERVISIONS at Tate Britain, London, curated by Trâm Nguyễn and Zaiba Jabbar.
Two-headed carabao calf Eleuterio Jr. — preserved by an ecocult and reanimated as the mascot of a demilitarised Mischief Reef — recounts his devotion to the super-storm that killed him. The second live sequel to Alley to Heaven, performed using a projected low-poly environment, voice transformer and vroid avatar.
Commissioned for Daisy World at Espace Niemeyer, Paris as part of The Well Tempered, a programme of atmospheres and atmospherics curated by Jade Barget with Saki Hibino.
Disaster-sensing nanosatellite MAYA-8 experiences machine psychosis and falls in love with all her data labellers at once. The first live sequel to Alley to Heaven, performed using a projected low-poly environment and livestreamed avatar.
Commissioned for Omen Central at Soft Power, Berlin as part of The Well Tempered, a programme of atmospheres and atmospherics curated by Jade Barget with Saki Hibino. Performed again for Margins United at EartH, London.
Three nonhuman agents — a coral polyp swarm, a two-headed carabao calf, and a sparrow-nanosatellite hybrid — reflect on an artificial island’s ecology, history, and geopolitical status within the contested territory of the South China / West Philippine Sea.
Commissioned for A World of Islands, an exhibition curated by Ligaya Salazar at Stanley Picker Gallery, London. A World of Islands considers the movement of indigenous knowledge, practices, materials and people, and historical and current fabrications of tropical utopia and dystopia.
Exhibited at Sérum Radiance, curated by Jade Barget at Fondation Fiminico, Paris. The exhibition brings together a selection of works on the development and study of ecosystems, with works highlighting the toxic ecologies of which humanity is an integral part.
A video-augmented lecture-performance on the animistic, modernist, and authoritarian spirits that haunt the archipelagoes and peninsulas of the tropics — drawing and departing from the research behind Small Gods.
Commissioned for New Worlds, an experimental series curated by Alice Bucknell at Somerset House Studios. The performances merge magic and technology to explore the interconnected topics of sound and ritual, myth-making, non-linear storytelling, ecological futures, and more-than-human narratives. Reviewed by Elephant.
