Inspired by many Asian children’s childhood - mostly Chinese and Japanese - that revolves around gaming and anime, A Place Where Spirits Collide reinvestigates the past through installation and performance, attempting to build a bridge between the virtual and the physical. Originally a personal cultural memory, by inviting artists of different backgrounds, the exhibition transforms the subject artistically by showing the co-existence between humans and technologies - that the digital is no longer a disposable exterior of our physicality.

Being a site-specific and installation & performance-only exhibition, A Place Where Spirits Collide sites itself in a historical chapel, experiments with unconventional space and the effect such space brings onto installation and performative pieces.

The exhibition is purposefully laid out in a circular order. The centrepiece is an audio-visual performance focusing on the theme of the digital; surrounding it are a number of installation pieces that narrate cultural and self-identity. The encapsulating layout in a historical site combined with our modern way of exhibition viewing re-emphasises the merging of two worlds, showing the birth of a new-age habitat, a space where physical and virtual spirits collide.

A Place Where Spirits Collide
Asylum Chapel, London

with Sally, Natasha V. Moody, Michaela, Maximilian Prag, Kyriacos Georghiou, Katya Sykes, Kai Yan Cheung, Julie Maurin, JiaYi Li, Izna Bendey, Dien Berziga, Anastasiya Calinovici, Andy Ralph

curated by Nina Wong @k1tsca1bur
photos by Morrigan Rawson @wraithlingg


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