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nikki lam ︎ moving image and curatorial projects on time, memory and migration ︎︎︎



︎︎︎art
Reprise / Release
the unshakable destiny_
spectral wires
time absorbs the feelings it produces
Departure for a Disjointed Reality 
03:20 
Anchor and a Loose Thread / 錨，和懸絲
Anchor: A Prelude
Before After / 以前丶以後
Still... what is left
Uprooting Mandarin
Falling Leaf Returns to Its Roots / 落葉歸根

︎︎︎curate
Hyphenated Biennial
Woke in Fright
Channels Festival 
Screen as a Room
everything that exists in the current
Frames of Seeing
Floating Grounds

︎︎︎write
As long as a roll of fabric (it’s a long story)_review
failures at a time of crisis; hopes to keep us going_catalogue essay
sway and repeat, an equilibrium_catalogue essay
time absorbs the feelings it produces _art
ꫝꫀꪖꪜꫀꪀᦓ for a single noodle in the past _fiction
plague years in the making _essay
Departure for a Disjointed Reality _essay
Neither close nor far away: on solidarity from afar _essay
Ascension in a cloud of smoke _essay
I’m just passing through _fiction

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Mark







Anchor: A Prelude
2018
HD video with sound, wood and shoji paperThis project was created during an artist residency at Studio Kura as part of Itoshima Art Farm International Art Festival.


To remember is to have an anchor for your belonging.

Exploring the condition of movements, politics of memory and resistance of the colonial gaze, Anchor: A Prelude is a video exhibition that echoes the artist’s memory in a shifting context where the horizon is warped and time is irrelevant. It is a starting point, a resonance, an act of remembering—much like a warm reminder of a rootless home.
Mark