Imagining Somewheres is an interdisciplinary artistic research project that combines` visual art, virtual reality, and decolonial theory to explore hope beyond the known and solidarities across difference. This two-fold project – consisting of an abstract VR piece, an installation, and a written thesis – investigates obstruction as a beginning and its role in future-building.

The audio is a recording of Ocean Vuong reading his own poem “Someday I'll Love Ocean Vuong” from his collection Night Sky with Exit Wounds (2016).

In March–April 2019, the full mixed reality installation was shown at Skånes konstförening as part of The appearance and disappearance of futures and pasts duo exhibition. In 2018, I collaborated with Sydney-based architect/designer Shuang Wu on sister/scapes, which featured the VR portion of this work.

As my master’s thesis for the Visual Culture program at Lund University, this project critically examines raced and gendered embodiment, solidarities, and radical hope. I completed Imagining Somewheres with help from the Chinese American Museum Los Angeles, producer Michi Lantz Jörgensen, The Humanities Lab at Lund University, and Professor Floyd Cheung (Smith College).

Full statement available—click to the last image in the reel/carousel below.