adam (moy) chuong 鎂蓮
⇝ you used to tell me 白素貞 & 小青 were in love
⇝ petrochemical plasticity
⇝ 哪吒, or Ceramic imitations of plastic furniture imitate Shang ritual bronzes
⇝ plastic pang chang knot, 纪念的双联葫芦瓶
⇝ i built you a house of mud so that I could see you again
⇝ BURNING HELL MONEY ON A LASER CUTTER TO COMMUNE WITH MY DECEASED GRANDMOTHER
⇝ INCINERATE UPON MY DEATH
⇝ BPTable
⇝ hot air
⇝ YELLOW WITH THE WHITE STRIPE, RIGHT POCKET
⇝ pots
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teochew american transdiciplinary artist
BURNING FAKE MONEY ON A LASER CUTTER TO COMMUNE WITH MY DECEASED GRANDMOTHER, 2019, installation & performance, hand-tufted wool rug, etched joss paper strung on trellis of bamboo & plastic garden twine, 5 x 8 feet
The laser cutter, a cornerstone of makerspaces for individuals to start their own small production businesses, is reinterpreted as means of ritual ancestral worship. Chinese hell currency isn’t burnt to provide money for my grandmother to survive in a capitalist afterlife. Instead, the precision of a laser cutter is used to burn messages -- apologies for acting upon intergenerational trauma, for valuing assimilation over family, and for a culture that considers others alien. 
