Resurrect Me as a Parasite (2025), mosquito girlfriend (Lou Lou Sainsbury & Gabi Dao), 9:52 mins. Video still. NEWS - 2025
Screening: Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival 2025, Hawick, Scotland, 4 May 2025
I’ll be presenting my film A Fantastic Body at Alchemy Film & Moving Image Festival, in the film programme AND ENTER. More info and tickets here!
Exhibition: Beyond the Commons: From Stardust to Everlasting Sun at A Space Gallery, Toronto, CA, 12 April to 24 May 2025
I’m collaborating with Gabi Dao on our first exhibition as the artist duo ‘mosquito girlfriend’, in Beyond the Commons: From Stardust to Everlasting Sun at A Space Gallery (Toronto) curated by Noor Alé. The exhibition comprises newly commissioned works by Eve Tagny and mosquito girlfriend, including our 16mm film Resurrect Me as a Parasite, and an expanded ceramic and textiles installations. More info here!
Exhibition: Prospects, Art Rotterdam, Ahoy, NL, 28th to 30th March 2025
I’m going to be exhibiting a new ceramic and textiles installation made at my recent residency in EKWC, as well as a 16mm film 🩸🩸🩸 made in collaboration with Gabi Dao at Prospects in Art Rotterdam this year. The exhibition includes many incredible artists, collaborators and friends, so come say hi! Tickets and more info here.
Screening: Flesh, Re-vesseled, Queercircle, London, 22 March 2025
I’ll be presenting A Fantastic Body in this screening programme of artist moving image works curated by april forrest lin 林森, centering the body and its myriad possibilities and limitations. Working with, through, and beyond the flesh vessel, these experimental films explore public sex ritual, surgery, diaspora, the archival, Traditional Chinese Medicine, domesticity, grief and pornography.More info here!
Fuse box altar - Still from an upcoming 16mm film in collaboration with Gabi Dao - Jan 2025
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with insect bait top, a sword, jewellery, reels and a picture of queen Diamanda Galas at the bottom.
2024
Reading at - Triënnale fan Beetstersweach 2024: It hûs is net ien - Remembering Cosy, Philipp Gufler
Kunsthuis SYB
2nd November 2024
I’m going to be hosting the De Bult bar and performing a short poetry reading at this Kunsthuis SYB event in Beetsterzwaag on the 2nd November! The reading will be in the context of the Triënnale fan Beetstersweach 2024: It hûs is net ien exhibition, and will follow a new live performance by Philipp Gufler in homage to the artist Cosy Pièro. More info here!
Stigmata: The Scar As Archive at Reference Point, London, UK - Publication Launch - 4th October 2024
I’m participating in this new publication Stigmata: The Scar as Archive, edited by artist and publisher M. Lissoni, launching at Reference Point, London this October 4th! Excited to be alongside a group of fantastic artists, inspirations and friends including Clémentine Bedos, Pauline Curnier Jardin, Lydia Garnett, Jonn Gale & Shireen McCormack, Austin Hearne, Kasra Jalilipour, David Leal, Ash McNaughton, Yon Natalie Mik, Pissed Off Trannies (P.O.T.), Lou Lou Sainsbury, Mahsa Salali, Elida Silvey, Magdalena Siwicka, Frank Wasser, Francis Whorrall-Campbell, Nicole Wilson and Yiling Zhao. More info here!
Open Studio: Test Case XXXII at EKWC , Oisterwijk, Netherlands - 28th September 2024
I’ll be showing recent works from my residency at the EKWC International Artist in Residence and Research Center for Ceramics, in Oisterwijk, NL. Open 2pm to 5pm, more info here!
Elemental Poetics: Spellcasting for Reenchantment at UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, Canada - Workshop - 1st September 2024
In conjunction with the exhibition to carve without cutting, myself and Gabi Dao are facilitating a workshop in the garden of UNIT/PITT. Elemental Poetics: Spellcasting for Re-Enchantment is an experimental writing, drawing and sensing workshop that explores poetry as a form of ‘spellcasting’ . The event includes dinner from local Palestinian kitchen Tamam and a walk to Linnea Beach to perform a ritual activating our featured ceramic work ‘mosquito girlfriend’. More info here.
to carve without cutting at Dr. Sun Yat-Sen Classical Chinese Garden & UNIT/PITT, Vancouver, Canada - Exhibition - 31st August to 28th September 2024
Myself and artist Gabi Dao are collaborating in this special group exhibition to carve without cutting at Dr.Sun Yat-Sen Classical Garden, located in Vancouver’s Chinatown. The show is curated by Asia Jong and in partnership with the artist-run space UNIT/PITT. Gabi and I made a new duo ceramic work ‘mosquito girlfriend,’ which is installed on a small island in the pond of the garden amongst koi fish, insects and visiting herons.... bzzzzz... bzzzzz... More info here.
Spryte (Online Artist’s Film Streaming Platform) - Screening on 28th July - !! STREAMING HERE !! 🧠️💊️💿️
I will be screening A Fantastic Body (2024) at the free online streaming platform Spryte, coming up on Sunday the 28th July. You will be able to view it on loop for a 12 hour cycle - STREAMING HERE: https://www.spryte.info/
STIGMATA Cinema Club: On Transembodiment at Atlas Cinema, London - June 14th 2024
I will be screening my film A Fantastic Body (2024) alongside works by Clémentine Bedos, Rosa-Johan Uddoh, Yiling Zhao and David Leale, at STIGMATA Screening Club: On Transembodiment in Atlas Cinema; an experimental film cooperative in Loughborough Junction, London. The event is curated by M. Lissoni, as a part of the upcoming STIGMATA journal launching later this year. More info and tickets here.
Artist in residence at EKWC, Oisterwijk, NL and the CBK I&V award - May 30th to August 20th 2024
Thrilled to announce I’ve been awarded the CBK I&V grant to support my upcoming artist residency at EKWC in Oisterwijk this summer. I will be in residence at the EKWC from May 30th to August 20th, doing research and material exploration in ceramics and metal for a new sonic installation and performance work, with additional support from Sitchting Stokroos.
Experimentica 24, Chapter Arts Center, Cardiff - Screening + Q&A - April 13th 2024
Honored to be screening my films A Fantastic Body + descending notes at Experimentica 24, Chapter Arts Centre in Cardiff, followed by a discussion with myself and Rebecca Jagoe. More info and tickets here.
Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin, Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, DE - April 9th 2024
My film descending notes will screening at the Rencontres Internationales in Haus der Kulteren der Welt, Berlin in the video library of the festival. Initially commissioned and produced by Gasworks.
This is a night of performances and video installation, curated by Ratri Notosudirdjo, featuring work by myself, Gabi Dao, XIE3LLA and Shasti. I will be performing my text piece The Wind Unravels Us with a live lighting score, and screening my new film A Fantastic Body, initially commissioned by Ehrlich Steinberg.
We’ll Be Your Mirror, Condo: Ehrlich Steinberg, Herald St, London, UK - Group Exhibition - January 20th to February 17th
Thrilled to be in this group exhibition We’ll Be Your Mirror at Herald Street, London with Ehrlich Steinberg, LA, as a part of Condo 2024. The exhibition features my textiles work, alongside artists Markus Amm, Alexandra Bircken, Josh Brand, Beth Collar, Coleman Collins, Michael Dean, Trix & Robert Haussmann, Emi Mizukami, Joan Nelson, Joel Otterson and Jeffrey Stuker. Documentation of the exhibition here.
A Cloud That Bites, Ehrlich Steinberg, Los Angeles, USA - Solo Exhibition - January 11th to February 17th 2024
Announcing my first international solo exhibition in Los Angeles - A Cloud That Bites opens at Ehrlich Steinberg on Jan 11th and runs until Feb 17th. Featuring a newly commissioned multichannel video installation, sculpture, drawing, poetry and scent, with generous support from Mondriaan Fund and Amarte Fund. More information on the exhibition here. It was also featured in Contemporary Art Daily here.