Sweeping Adventures is designed to infuse a sense of delight and childlike wonder into mundane household chores, particularly the act of sweeping with a broom. Rooted in the belief that playfulness and imagination can be rekindled in adults through interactive experiences, the installation transforms the ordinary into the extraordinary. By combining the physicality of sweeping with a multisensory and interactive digital experience, the installation bridges the gap between the routine and the extraordinary, encouraging participants to embrace a childlike sense of play.
swallow me (Again) is a time-based, multi-media installation that seeks to present an abstraction and exploration of the Mother Wound (the inter-generational pain passed between women in a line of inheritance) through the ritualization of physical motions in sculptural interaction.
The artwork presents a speculative emancipation ritual questioning the ideology of healing and its possibility in the context of something so innately present.
Perhaps the only way to end a cycle of trauma is to remove its latest vessel from the world.
This thesis investigates the concept of Bangsa Malaysia in terms of cultural aspects and the development of Malaysia’s national identity. This journey began with my exploration of the socio-political contexts of the lion dance throughout its historical development, leading to the ban of lion dance under the historical context within which the 1971 New Culture Policy formed in Malaysia. The idea of tiger dance emerged from this historical background and prompted me to use Tiger as the subject in exploring diaspora identities, mythology and cultural belongings in Malaysia.
This research derives from retrospection of my cultural background (Malaysian Chinese) and my particular interest in the dynamic nature of culture as a system of ever-evolving symbols. The outcome of this research is a mixed-media installation, Menjadi Rimau (To Become Tiger). Through this installation, I propose a socio-political and cultural imagination where the Tiger is presented as a supra-ethnic national identity. In this imagined space, the tiger ‘unified’ the people of the nation across their differences and their ‘lost origins’ caused by the history of enforced diasporas.
By re-examining a collective historical and mythological narrative, Menjadi Rimau serves as an open dialogue on diaspora identities in Malaysia, prompting a reflection on our cultural belonging to Bangsa Malaysia. Between fiction and fact, the work hopes to dissect cultural pluralism as part of a colonial heritage, and to offer a critical and poetic exploration of post-colonial discourses, mythology and diasporas.
“Digital Soul & Data Metamorphosis” is an immersive and experimental new media art that documents the artist’s self-experiences, beliefs, and ideologies, and examines the potential for human soul immortalisation and extension within the digital realm in the context of evolving artificial intelligence.
In the digital realm of “Digital Soul & Data Metamorphosis”, information is documented in forms of data and further transformed into narratives using artificial intelligence. The project raises the speculative hypothesis that the human soul, once limited to the physical realm, possesses the potential to not only thrive but also be measured, stored, generativity developed and immortalised in the virtual realm with the development of artificial intelligence and data processing. Investigating the intersection of humanity and digital technology, this inquiry challenges conventional notions of existence and prompts a profound revaluation of the soul’s transcendence into the digital domain.
By examining the convergence of humanity and digital technology, “Digital Soul & Data Metamorphosis” provokes a profound reconsideration of the soul’s capacity to transcend into the digital domain in the age of AI. Through this exploration, the project seeks to engage with tangible and virtual boundaries.
Insomnia is a well-known, widespread sleeping disorder that creates difficulties in initiating sleep and achieving a refreshing rest without any disruptions.
But what truly unfolds during the nocturnal hours of someone dealing with insomnia? 𝘊𝘭𝘰𝘴𝘦 𝘠𝘰𝘶𝘳 𝘌𝘺𝘦𝘴 is an interactive installation that allows you to experience the complexity and layers of an individual’s journey with insomnia. This immersive experience invites viewers to take rest while encountering unsettling sounds and visuals. It is an invitation to observe the insomniac or 𝘉𝘦 the insomniac.
