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Delighted to share that I have been selected by S+T+ARTS Hungry Ecocities to work on a new project Low Carbon Climate Cookbook.

I will continue my exploration of ways to introduce low carbon cooking + food into our food system through working with data and plant scientists, and will be experimenting using AI as a tool and framework to explore its contribution to the notion of authenticity in food.

– Sept 2023

Extremely delighted to be awarded the 2024 STRP Award of Creative Technology (ACT Award)! I’ll be working on a new and larger version of Playing Democracy exploring the principles of democracy in this day and age.

With the award, STRP wants to stimulate the development and production of new artworks and provide the opportunity to premier them during STRP Festival 2024: 𝘈 𝘔𝘢𝘵𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘍𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘥𝘰𝘮.

– May 2023

In April 2023, I collaborated with architect and artist, Usman Haque, to run a two-day interaction design workshop with 75 design students at Ngee Ann Polytechnic in Singapore, exploring algorithms, latency, feedback, 2nd order cybernetics, reaction vs interaction and many more concepts using their bodies, voices and phone torchlights. Watch a short summary video here.

– April 2023

I curated my first exhibition, titled State-less 無國界, as part of Associate Artistic Director role in Kakilang. The exhibition features multimedia works of 10 internationally acclaimed Southeast and East Asian artists. The exhibition is held at Two Temple Place in London from 11th March to 9th April 2023.

– 22 Mar 2023

I’ll be doing a residency with Compass Festival this year. Learning from Low Carbon Chinatown, I will continue to explore themes surrounding food and climate, and work with a group of Leeds’ East and Southeast asian community members to develop a new low carbon recipe.

– 27 Feb 2023

Digital SUPERPOWER! was exhibited at Matsudo International Science Art Festival in Matsudo City in Japan as part of Ars Electronica 2022 Feature. As part of the feature, a data experiment was carried out with a group of residents in Matsudo, who used the Digital SUPERPOWER! digital toolkit to map out different safe spaces in Matsudo in times of natural disaster.

– 25 Oct 2022

Low Carbon Chinatown premiered at London Chinatown, where 300 members of the public gathered across several days in a custom built low carbon pop-up pavilion to enjoy a series of sit down meals consisting of low carbon Chinese dishes developed by 60 East & Southeast Asian participants, a data scientist and notable ESEA food writers and chefs.

– 20 Sept 2022

Building from the 6-months long Taking Root pilot project that took place in Birmingham, the project is now “taking root” across other parts of the UK! This time round, we are working with a new community of more than 40 participants (Bamboo Parents) from across Liverpool City Region, Stoke-on-Trent and Newcastle-under-Lyme. Stay tuned!

– 19 May 2022

This April, we’ve successfully concluded our final Planting Ceremony as part of Taking Root – a 6 months long collaborative growing pilot project I’ve been working on that explores the relationship that people living in the UK have with non-native bamboo plants as a sustainable material, as a carbon sink, and its role and ours in tackling the climate crisis.

– 22 April 2022

It’s a wrap! Playing Democracy was exhibited last weekend at Somerset House as part of Now Play This Festival. Super interesting to observe the play dynamics between different players and how the presence of surrounding audiences affect the players’ behaviour – their sense of competitiveness, fair play and wanting to be ‘nice’ to each other.

– 11 April 2022

Happy to share that my interactive work – Playing Democracy is awarded Finalists’ Award for Asia Digital Art Award Fukuoka (ADAA) Interactive Arts Category. It is also shortlisted for Zebrastraat New Technological Art Award (NTAA) and will be exhibiting at Zebrastraat Art Centre in Ghent, Belgium next month.


– 11 Jan 2022

Excited to be taking on a new role as an associate artistic director at Chinese Arts Now, together with choreographer and theatre-maker Si Rawlinson, writer, performer and filmmaker Daniel York Loh, and CAN’s artistic director An-Ting Chang.

Working with CAN, I look forward to presenting ways that art can activate the local Chinese community (including East and South East Asian) to make sense of, and affect the environment through individual and collective actions.

– 22 Nov 2021

I will be trailing SUPERMOMENTS at this year’s Random String Festival in Coventry!

We have been working with young performers from Highly Sprung who will be embodying and performing the audio stories recorded by local residents in Coventry that capture their relationship with the city. The performance is on the 13th November at the canal basin at 6 pm, 7 pm and 8 pm.

– 9 Nov 2021

Excited to be carrying on the partnership with Lumen Art Projects on a brand new commission by Barking Riverside. The project, Growing Riversiders, is a participatory project involving 100 local residents collaboratively growing a large-scale plant-based pixel artwork that represents their collective identity for Barking Riverside, created by the community themselves using digital tools and through growing plants in their own homes.

In the summer, participants will piece together their plant boxes to reveal the final artwork. The public launch of the physical artwork will take place at the Wilds Ecology Centre, in the new Northgate area of Barking Riverside.
– 25 Feb 2021

This spring, I will be working with CAN and Season for Change on a new pilot project – Chinatown Climate Exploration.

Through a series of digital workshops and activities, a small group of Chinatown community members will actively record their perception surrounding different topics relating to their travel, food culture and relationship with peers using a custom mobile web platform. They will discuss and make sense of the data collected as individual and collective, and co-design a rating scale that maps their various actions/approaches in their everyday life to the level of impact they think it has on the climate.
– 25 Feb 2021

Pleased to announce that SUPERPOWER! has been awarded British Council Digital Collaboration Fund! I will be continuing the collaboration with Fak’ugesi Festival and new partner Youth for Innovation Trust on a new digital version of the project titled Digital SUPERPOWER!.

The project involves working remotely with young womxn (women including transgender women) creatives and their peers from London, Johannesburg and Bulawayo to make sense of issues surrounding safety and security in their environment through their subjective perception using digital tools
– 10 Jan 2021

I am pleased to announce that SUPERMOMENTS has been selected for the Without Walls Blueprint 2020 Programme alongside 9 other UK artists and companies.

SUPERMOMENTS is a new interactive outdoor procession that combines wearable technology and geolocated audio storytelling to explore our personal agency, empathy and collective actions towards changing our city. It is about heightening the experience of those special moments people have in cities – and sharing them with each other while reflecting on your own urban experiences and hopes for the future. More information, visit here
– 4 July 2020

Excited to be working with Cluj Cultural Centre on a residency project – SUPERPOWER!, a participatory project that enables people to make sense of their complex interaction with the city, explores collective empathy and the impact of the built environment on their health & well-being through their innate subjective perception. More information, visit here
– 1 June 2020

I have launched a new interactive work at Barbican! Titled Playing Democracy, it is a giant two-player game of Pong, exploring the principles of democracy. Structured as a competitive game of Pong, the audience controls the game paddles using their body movement tracked by a camera.
The project is commissioned by Lumen Art Projects and Barbican.
– 17 March 2020

SUPERGESTURES is exhibiting at House of Electronic Arts Basel (HeK) in Basel this year as part of their Making FASHION Sense exhibition.

The exhibition focuses on the impact of technology upon creative processes in the fashion industry, as well as on artistic paths leading towards increasing sustainability: Fashion which makes sense.
– 16 January 2020

Pollution Explorers is showing at The Art Pavilion in London this month as part of the Depictions of Living exhibition.

The exhibition features 77 selected emerging artists exploring issues surrounding climate breakdown exhibited alongside artefacts and photos from protest movements, connecting the art world and environmental movements, enmeshing art and activism in a contemporary gallery space.
– 23 Jan 2020