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The Wet Commune
Green Sun
Pattern Test (No. 1)
Chlorophyll Grid
Fluid Dynamics Study
Britannia
Stay With Your Tribe
Sun and 80 Consonents
Matadero
CUERPO
Supernormal Vision Machine
Night Stories
Terra
Untitled
Borden
I am a Chinese Canadian artist currently based in Toronto and Vancouver. My work explores the materiality of post-natural landscapes, particularly post-extractive sites, toxic substances, and forms of biopolitics mediated through fluid matter. I am interested in mist as an atmospheric medium that moves across human and non-human thresholds, producing shared conditions of affect, intimacy, danger, and uncertainty. I also work with bodily fluids such as saliva, where abjective expeirence and biological trace become entangled with systems of governance and control. Across these research interests, I seek to unpack moments of tension where substances produce relational, ambient, and speculative environments.
In my installation work, I often use repurposed objects, biological media, plants, electronics, environmental data, and live coding tools to assemble multimedia environments. My thinking is informed by scientific and cosmo-spiritual traditions that bridge natural systems, technology, and Eastern philosophy, as well as environmental history and cybernetics.
sy.di [at] mail.utoronto.ca