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
Tag: writing
Serenity Department Website & Webshop
Serenity Department officially has an online space! It is the home of affective labour as research and financial labour as webshop.... more
Dark Cousin #1: An Introduction to Steganography
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
Looking in the Goblin Mirror
From the many conversations with my mother, I write a letter to Ursula, an ancestral entity whom I share our mending journey with.... more
Dear Ursula
An intergenerational mending practice two years in the making, between my mother Maria Ling Qing Huang and myself.... more
Burning Ritual
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
Mending as a Practice of Interdependency
An essay reflecting upon literal and metaphorical modes of mending as an artist and educator.... more
Racial Facial
A Meditation on Skin and Care and its Interconnecting Tissues. Created by Elaine W. Ho and myself for the PWSSSRFS series at Motel Spatie over the winter of 2020, while incidents of racism against Asians were breaking out worldwide in light of the onset of COVID-19... more
A Cookbook of Invisible Writing
The book is an introduction to analog steganography, a type of secret writing that is hidden in plain sight. It is an invisible ink colouring book, recipe book, puzzle book and artistic research book. ‘A Cookbook of Invisible Writing’ is an introduction to analog steganography, a type of secret writing that is hidden in plain sight. It is an invisible ink colouring book, recipe book, puzzle book and artistic research book.... more
Obsolete Design Manifesto
1) Get off the technological hamster wheel. 2) Innovation ≠ Good, Obsolete ≠ Bad. 3) Obsolete Design.... more
