Alley to Heaven (2021-23) traces how data annotation labor, edge computing infrastructure, and militarized ecologies intersect in one of the world's most disputed territories. Geopolitical violence, environmental collapse, and technological systems produce forms of hybrid consciousness at the margins of human perception, materialised through grey-market tech and disturbed by extreme love. Exhibited at Espace Niemeyer, Frac ile-de-france, Stanley Picker, Soft Power and Ateneo Gallery (forthcoming).

2023 - ESPACE NIEMEYER

Reality Surf

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.

READING with video projection, 23 mins
Score · Libya Montes & Rayce Vaughn ☾ Virtual Cinematography · Carlo Quicho ☾ 3D Artist · Farid Mammadov ☾ Environment Design · Sagar Chavda ☾ Photography · Martin Lazlo Rouillé

2023 - SOFT POWER

Bad Omens

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.

PERFORMANCE with livestreamed projection, 17 mins
Score · Mercyboyz ☾ Virtual Cinematography · Carlo Quicho ☾ 3D Artist · Farid Mammadov ☾ Environment Design · Sagar Chavda ☾ Photography · Sonia Rybak

2022 · STANLEY PICKER

Alley to Heaven

Three 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. Covered in Momus.

Single-channel video with CGI, vroid avatars, and found footage, 19 mins
Directed by Alex Quicho & Carlo Quicho
Design · Javier Syquia ☾ Score · Libya Montes ☾ Virtual Cinematography · Carlo Quicho ☾ 3D Artist · Farid Mammadov ☾ Environment Design · Sagar Chavda ☾ Additional Score and Sound Design · Rayce Vaughn ☾ Colourist · Cam McCutcheon