IF I PLANT THE FLOWERS FOR YOU

2025, Ongoing

WEB/VR/VIDEO INSTALLATION

“If I Plant the Flowers For You” is a love letter I wrote to my friends. It archives the fragments of a transitory life, explores the bittersweet nature of nomadism, and imagines a playful resistance to censorship. In the virtual space, flowers bloom forever in the 3D-scanned bedrooms of my friends, keeping our memories and conversations alive. It is my way of appreciating the beauty residing in ephemerality and under oppression...

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CANDY BOX: SOUR, SWEET, BITTER, AND SPICY

2025, Ongoing

IMMERSIVE & INTERACTIVE SPACE, VIDEO INSTALLATION

There are four essential tastes in Chinese culture: sour, sweet, bitter, and spicy. It is a poetic rendering of these four tastes and the artist's personal stories behind them.

Participants will be led to an immersive space with four wall projections. After sitting down, participants will be kindly asked to scan a QR code and hit the play button on their phones at the same time. This interaction is called "Audioswarm," a format used in presenting field recordings. While collectively creating the soundscape, each participant is encouraged to explore the world projected on the walls and connect their assigned audio with the scenes...

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PETRICHOR

2024

IMMERSIVE & INTERACTIVE SPACE

Can people meditate in a cyber rain forest? Can this highly spiritual act be performed in a fullly digital space? Can nature be projected onto a wall? Will It lead to a dystopian future or open up a new way for spiritual growth? Petrichor is my attempt to find an answer these questions...

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FRAGMENTS OF AN AFTERNOON

2024

GAME/VR/VIDEO INSTALLATION

Inspired by John Cheever’s famous short story “The Swimmer”, Fragments of an Afternoon is a VR experience unraveling the idea of trauma and how our bodies store it by drinking and desserts eating through the lens of psychoanalysis combined with Taoism. This piece serves not as an antidote, since psychoanalysis has long been claimed defunct by professional psychologists today, but as a quest for the enduring insights these theories can still offer. By utilizing Virtual Reality, I further blend the border between dream and reality, self and society, spirituality and science...

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BAR 3057

2024

VIDEO INSTALLATION

I have always wondered what the world would become if we f
ollowed the motto of 'do nothing' and let the cycle continue. Bar 3057 is an imaginary promotional video for a bar set in the year 3057, where people, creatures, or cyborgs seek entertainment in their banal lives. The issues humanity faces today remain the same, or perhaps even more poignant, but are ignored or accepted into the system with a sense of nonchalance. Envisioning this future empowers me to break free from the constraints in my real life...

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TO EAT A POMEGRANATE

2023

LIVE PERFORMANCE

T o Eat a Pomegranate is an immersive live performance that delves into the multifaceted cultural and religious symbolism of this mystical fruit. Through experimental visuals and captivating soundscapes crafted by me, this performance will shed light on the complexities of womanhood in our society from ancient to today. The whole performance emcompasses five chapters, which correspond to different phases of a woman’s life...

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