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nikki lam︎moving image and text on time, memory and migration ︎



︎︎︎projects
The Unshakable Destiny trilogy
spectral wires
time absorbs the feelings it produces
All Scenes are Unfinished: Excerpts
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

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

︎︎︎texts
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
Over the river, from a few lifetimes away_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

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Mark




[GIF: Protest flag code for Animal Crossing New Horizons.]


Departure for a Disjointed Reality is a digital project about ‘dreams’, coded language and an inaccurate and somewhat fictional documentation of Hong Kong 2019-2020. It was commissioned by Running Dog for Issue Two: Crowd the Revolution, published July 2020. The project was online between 2020-2025. [original link here]

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[excerpts]

It feels humid and warm. A fire in your chest and a lingering headache. Inhaling through the face mask, you are reminded of what ‘dreams’ are made of. You start to lose sight over the details of the dreams, how they started, why you are here.

You feel everything through the multitudes of screens, through the action of your finger swiping up.

You are as awake as you are asleep.

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Mark