Wall Drawings (2015-2016) is a series of ‘murals’ on the temporary ‘houses’ built by the Filipino domestic workers groups around Central, Hong Kong. This series began as simple decorative drawings that I drew while spending time with the groups in their temporary houses. The flowing lines resembling flowers and trees were intentionally simple and structural to […]
“They say your life can be changed forever by death I don’t know how much of that is true when you have more than one life. Don’t get me wrong – I don’t forget. I wonder though often times whether a mosquito remembers its life as a larvae, underwater, before it grew its wings.” Untold […]
The title of this series, Nous ne notons pas les fleurs, is taken from a dialogue in Le Petit Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1943), where a geographer tells the Little Prince that geographers do not record flowers in their maps because, unlike the earth, flowers are ephemeral. Each map installation in this series is […]
Corpus (2015-2016) is a series of interventions into the recycling collection points around Central. These recycling collection points are like the river mouths of the waste cardboard route. They buy not only cardboard waste, but also other kinds of waste: metal, plastic, other paper. They then compress these waste into bales that they deliver to the […]
Ongoing since 2014 Trade/Trace/Transit is a series of public interventions in and mobile ethnography of the trade route of cardboard waste in Hong Kong. The project started in 2014 and so far has generated various works: Wall Drawings (2015-16), Corpus (2015-16), Five Tonnes of Homes and Other Understories (2016), Proposal for a film: Within the […]
Make Your Own Passport is an installation and workshop-performance held in markets and public places, in which patrons are invited to make their personal passport while at the same time becoming part of a conversation and a spectacle. The workshop-performance attracts participants with a colourful installation displaying templates of passports from 144 countries around the […]
A set of 4 synchronised claw skill tester machines are filled with passports from the 10 richest and 10 poorest countries in the world. The passports are then sorted only according to colours – blue, red, black and green – disregarding their hierarchy. As the machines are synchronised, playing one machine means controlling the claw […]
(2005, dir. Tintin Wulia) – Synch Festival (2005) – Greece.
Setelah 40 Tahun: Kebebasan Berbicara After 40 Years: Freedom of Speech (2005, dir. Tintin Wulia) – Politics of Fun, Yokohama Triennial (2005) – Japan.
(2003-2005, dir. Tintin Wulia, in collaboration with children of Hamburg, Bajawa, Darwin, and Singapore) – Theatreworks’ International Centre of Asian Art – go to “collection” to see clip (workshop presentation, 2005) – Singapore.