Mythopoetics for the Living Newsletter
A survey of the history and foundation of astrology and the potential of transforming popular horoscopes from mass-market predictions to a tool for alternative epistemology and personal empowerment.
A study through the zodiac archetypes on how our unease with AI reveals the limits of pure logic and the legacy of the Enlightenment, calling for intuitive, embodied wisdom in our relationship with technology.
A case for redefining liberation through wellbeing, where the personal, the spiritual, and the body are not escapes from politics but the ground freedom grows from. 1 of 3 in the trilogy of liberation, wellbeing, and transformation.
Critical-creative Essays
A lyrical meditation on learning Hawaiian Indigenous wisdom and transforming the act of writing from academic extraction into a decolonial ceremony of love, healing, and spiritual return.
A critical review of John Akomfrah’s 2024 Venice Biennale exhibition for the British Pavilion through discursive, institutional, and formal layers of representation. Published by Afterall.
A performative art writing that challenges academic format. Writing with not on the work, this piece explores interdependence, transtextuality, and the performativity of writing itself. Published by Moving Discourse.
Editorial Work
A history of earring and female liberation
A survey of hoop earings in the history of arts, its feminist, cultural and racial significance in the 20th century and its commodification in the 21th century. In Chinese.
Ayuki: Embrace the infinite in the Open World
An interview of Ayuki, the instructor for Game Development at X Academy 2020, that explores her intertwining identities as a VR developer, a teacher, and a gamer. In Chinese.
History of Sci-fi films: Nostalgic for the future then
A historical overview of science fiction films fom the 20th century with 10 sci-fi films that have significance in film history, art history, and cultural history. In Chinese.
Other
An exhibition design focused on life, substance, disease, posthuman, and biopolitics. It explores the relationship between the sustaining and the sustained, and exposes the political and anthropocentric dimensions behind the dyad.
Can love take more than two?
An introduction and discussion of polyamory, including critique on capitalism from queer theory and soviet literature. In Chinese.
Berliner Luft
A reflection on my summer stay in Berlin, bringing together the language, environment, history, urban space and culture of Berlin. In Chinese.