About Me — BITSRAY.BZ

BITSRAY^.BZ

Mobility | Movement | Meaning | Practice

SOLO PROJECT
video art | documentry | performance

BLOB COLLECTIVE mutidiciplinary performance

BLOB _bio

CURATE & RE/SEARCH screening | collabration | publication

EXiM 2023

About Me

photo by: Riccardo De Vecchi

I am a China-born, Netherlands-based interdisciplinary artist, performer, and researcher working across video art, documentary, and tech-integrated performance. Drawing from philosophy, social sciences, anthropology, and technology, my research-driven practice explores the complexities of mobility, migration, and coexistence, with a particular focus on their socio-political implications. I am particularly interested in how mobility across borders, cultures, and systems reshapes identities and relationships. My work explores the socio-political frictions, structural shifts, and personal affective transformations shaped by migration and movement. Through these explorations, my practice seeks to disrupt the rigid systems entrenched in everyday life and examine how such transformations impact both individual and collective experience.

My interest in these themes is stems from my experience as a migrant and my ongoing exploration of my Hakka (客家) heritage—a southern Han Chinese subgroup with communities across southern China and the diaspora. What started as personal conversations with my grandparents has grown into in-depth research, drawing on literature, archives, and media. This inquiry is further shaped by my education background in socio-political art and design, which informs my practice and highlights how lived experience is inseparable from broader cultural, political, and technological systems.

I am also in interested collaborative and physical movement that investigate the intersection of body, technology, and performance. I am a co-founder of BLOB collective (NL), alongside Dualtagh McDonnell-Grundy and Sophie Waller. Since 2024, BLOB’s primary focus is exploring the intersection of the body and technology. Through the fabrication of technologically bound spaces, we examine the physical encounter between these two entities, investigating the mobility possibilities and limitations this relationship imposes on the body. We continuously revise our artistic research methodology using 'blob-tracking' technologies to explore the individual's experience in an increasingly mediated world.

I am currently researching kinship, with a focus on the mother-daughter relationship and the material and spatial dimensions that shape this bond through the lens of migration. My work engages with non-normative family structures, drawing on matrilineality and womanhood as frameworks. I’m exploring the idea of transcending and including kinship as a form of care that extends beyond mere consanguineal relations to include kinship by choice, either out of privilege or necessity. In an effort to materialise this concept, I’m exploring the rich tradition of Cantonese soups and their unique ingredients as a methodological entry point, examining how they relate to my family upbringing and the roots of my understanding of care and co-existence.

Alongside my artistic research, I founded BITSRAY.CO, a video production and artistic direction studio. Here, I continuously hone my visual storytelling skills through collaboration with creatives from diverse backgrounds in the arts, culture, music, social initiatives, and education.

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