Performance by Jiaming Liao
“IYKYK” (if you know you know) is an internet colloquialism signalling content intended only for a specific in‑group. Jiaming Liao’s practice examines how image production in mass media shapes bodily expression and its entanglement with desire. For this performance, Liao dons his signature muscle suit to foreground how beauty and masculinity are culturally defined within an era of intensified commercialisation and technological mediation.
The work simulates an influencer’s e-commerce livestream, constructing a hybrid scene that spans virtual and physical space. Through interactive participation, audiences enter a collaborative act of “transformation”, directly altering the artist’s visual appearance with their own hands. As the boundaries between consumption and artistic creation grow increasingly porous, each participant assumes the role of co‑creator, collectively forging the contemporary mediated archetype formed at the juncture of lived reality and digital representation.
Image: Jiaming Liao. Courtesy of the artist.
Performance by Jiaming Liao
“IYKYK” (if you know you know) is an internet colloquialism signalling content intended only for a specific in‑group. Jiaming Liao’s practice examines how image production in mass media shapes bodily expression and its entanglement with desire. For this performance, Liao dons his signature muscle suit to foreground how beauty and masculinity are culturally defined within an era of intensified commercialisation and technological mediation.
The work simulates an influencer’s e-commerce livestream, constructing a hybrid scene that spans virtual and physical space. Through interactive participation, audiences enter a collaborative act of “transformation”, directly altering the artist’s visual appearance with their own hands. As the boundaries between consumption and artistic creation grow increasingly porous, each participant assumes the role of co‑creator, collectively forging the contemporary mediated archetype formed at the juncture of lived reality and digital representation.
Image: Jiaming Liao. Courtesy of the artist.
Performance by Isabella Isabella
In her autobiographical performance I see blood in the sky. (2026), Isabella Isabella deepens her ongoing exploration of the body as a medium for shared inquiry, care, and acts of resistance. The artist moves within a series of textural, multi-layered suits that evoke bodies in profound transformation. These garments serve not just as costumes but as active co-performers, their shifting textures and volumes intricately mapping the body’s metamorphosis. Through a choreography of movement and contact, the performance gives form to the mutable structures of familial intimacy, inviting reflection on how our experiences and identities are continually shaped in relation to others.
Gestures of embrace tighten into restraint; a hold contracts into confinement; tenderness flickers into violence. As the work navigates through states of connection, tension, and release, it reveals the entwined dynamics of nurture and control that proximity sets in motion.
Image: Isabella Isabella. Courtesy of the artist.
Performance by Susie Au
Amidst the bustle of an art fair setting, Susie Au presents a surreal “walk-in-cinema”, beckoning audiences into a multi-sensory experience of light manipulation and spatial metamorphosis.
The exhibition space transforms into a corridor of memories constructed from humble cardboard boxes. Within this organically sprawling structure, audiences move alongside performers through the open vessels, peering into fragmented projections cast onto their interior walls. Visitors may choose to sit in quiet observation, capture fleeting moments with their cameras, or simply let the drifting projections wash over their skin
These phantasmagoric moving images draw from Au’s extensive archive of music videos and cinematic essays. Through varying loop frequencies, fragments of the past are intricately dismantled and reassembled, allowing latent memories to emerge as new sensory narratives.
Image: TianYuen, <Choreocinema – Riding on Wave>, 2018. Art project. Choreographed by Nini Dongnier. Conceived and directed by Susie Au. Courtesy of the artists.
Performance by Susie Au
Amidst the bustle of an art fair setting, Susie Au presents a surreal “walk-in-cinema”, beckoning audiences into a multi-sensory experience of light manipulation and spatial metamorphosis.
The exhibition space transforms into a corridor of memories constructed from humble cardboard boxes. Within this organically sprawling structure, audiences move alongside performers through the open vessels, peering into fragmented projections cast onto their interior walls. Visitors may choose to sit in quiet observation, capture fleeting moments with their cameras, or simply let the drifting projections wash over their skin
These phantasmagoric moving images draw from Au’s extensive archive of music videos and cinematic essays. Through varying loop frequencies, fragments of the past are intricately dismantled and reassembled, allowing latent memories to emerge as new sensory narratives.
Image: TianYuen, <Choreocinema – Riding on Wave>, 2018. Art project. Choreographed by Nini Dongnier. Conceived and directed by Susie Au. Courtesy of the artists.
