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To remember is to return. The past is not behind us; it walks with us, as rivers flow back to the sea and the stars whisper the names of those who came before." — Paiwan Oral Tradition
Future Ancestries reclaims spiralic time as a curatorial framework, exploring how oceanic migration, cosmologies, and ancestral knowledge shape contemporary identity and acts of resistance. Rather than being isolated, islands emerge as fluid sites of adaptation, futurity, and transoceanic memory—where past, present, and future intersect like converging ocean currents.
This exhibition features newly commissioned works and archival interventions that engage with oceanic cosmologies, material archives, and Indigenous soundscapes, offering a sensorial and speculative approach to history-making. Future Ancestries positions ancestral knowledge not as a relic of the past, but as an active force shaping the futures yet to come—resisting erasure while forging new pathways for belonging, survival, and transformation.
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Between Waves
October 2023 - January 2024
Between Waves positions the ocean as a living archive of migration, memory, and resilience, tracing how contemporary artists engage with its shifting histories. Across the Asia-Pacific, waves have carried ancient seafarers, colonial violence, and ecological crises, yet they also sustain relational networks that defy imposed borders. Through moving image, installation, and performance, the artists in Between Waves reclaim the sea as a site of resistance, remembrance, and future-making.
Between Waves
Public Lecture 2023
Taking these speculations as a starting point, A Dweller on Two Planets links four media artists based in Asia. Together, their recent works explore cultural interference, remixing historical events and colonial legacy in order to develop an alternative narrative that suggests a mode of planetary thinking with regards to immigration, futurism, and nature. This exhibition features new and recent works in video and video installation by four East Asian and Southeast Asian woman artists: Ayoung Kim, Yin-Ju Chen, Sow Yee Au, and Su Yu Hsin.