
Dark Cousin #2: The Art of Indirection
On the pros and conss of oblique communication, labyrinthine tactics for survival in Chinese diasporic realities and musings on how my mother and I navigate these treacherous entanglements.... more
On the pros and conss of oblique communication, labyrinthine tactics for survival in Chinese diasporic realities and musings on how my mother and I navigate these treacherous entanglements.... more
Serenity Department officially has an online space! It is the home of affective labour as research and financial labour as webshop.... more
This installation began as a series of informal gatherings which took place over the winter of 2020: part sleepover, part social-practice art, part ‘diasporadic’ coven, and part study group.... more
In the ongoing column Dark Cousin, I offer embodied reflection into the evasive territory of the visible and invisible, and take readers down a meandering path of coded language throughout history.... more
From the many conversations with my mother, I write a letter to Ursula, an ancestral entity whom I share our mending journey with.... more
An embodied publication shifting between between protective armour and safety blanket, magazine and garment, and human and mythological creature.... more
An intergenerational mending practice two years in the making, between my mother Maria Ling Qing Huang and myself.... more
Paper replicas of the life-sized joss paper dresses were ritualistically burnt in an attempt to connect me to the past, present, and future, through gestures that I have come to understand as spectral publishing.... more
An essay reflecting upon literal and metaphorical modes of mending as an artist and educator.... more
A three-part aural brew and online grimoire that casts its gaze out from a closed-door coven of potluck workshops + secret societies + spa retreats + fests of slumber (aka …pwsssrfs…) that took place at Motel Spatie in the winter of 2020.... more