I am a China-born, Netherlands-based interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher working across video art, documentary, and tech-integrated performance. Drawing from philosophy, social sciences, anthropology, and technology, my research-driven practice explores the complexities of mobility, migration, and coexistence, with a particular focus on their socio-political implications. I am particularly interested in how mobility across borders, cultures, and systems reshapes identities and relationships. My work explores the socio-political frictions, structural shifts, and personal affective transformations shaped by migration and movement. Through these explorations, my practice seeks to disrupt the rigid systems entrenched in everyday life and examine how such transformations impact both individual and collective experience.
My interest in these themes stems from my lived experience as a migrant and my ongoing engagement with my Hakka ancestry—a southern Han Chinese subgroup whose settlements span southern China and overseas. What began through personal conversations with my grandparents has evolved into deeper literature research, encompassing books, archives, and media. Additionally, my educational background in socio-political art and design informs my work, which seeks to foreground the embeddedness of lived experiences within socio-political and cultural settings, inevitably shaped by technological and societal systems.
Get You Out of the Blue Soup
This performance engages with the theme of Composting Politics by treating food, memory, and cultural rituals as compost—materials that decompose, transform, and renew across time and space. The humble act of soup-making becomes a political and poetic gesture, carrying the fluid emotions, latent memories, and quiet strength of everyday practices. The herbs used, often by Cantonese grandmothers for healing, become an informal, living archive: something evaporative and permeable, passed down and transformed through generations.