Kuai Kuai

Kuai Kuai (2026) is a mechanical screen installation featuring inkjet-printed stickers, sized approximately 300 x 144 cm. It reimagines the Taiwanese cultural custom of placing green “乖乖” (guai guai, meaning “be obedient” or “good boy/girl”) snack bags next to machines (such as computers, servers, or ATMs) as a superstitious offering to ensure they run flawlessly without errors. The work animates these “offerings” as gently breathing forms, highlighting themes of belief systems, ritual, superstition, and societal pressures for unquestioning obedience embedded in technological infrastructures. It was created as a new work specifically for the Reworlding exhibition.

Reworlding is a group exhibition curated by Debbie Ding, funded and organised by the National Art Council Singapore, during the Singapore Art Week 2026, bringing together seven Asian female media artists. It explores virtuality, technology, and digital systems not as seamless futures but as fragile worlds requiring ongoing repair, care, mourning, and misuse. The exhibition features works across sound, sculpture, games, video, and VR, addressing unseen labour, rituals, failures, and alternative ways of living with technology.

The PI also participated in the public panel “Art, Tech and Social Simulations” (part of Reworlding programmes, 24 Jan 2026) and the broader SAW Art&Tech Artists Panel (25 Jan 2026, organised/funded by National Arts Council Singapore), discussing artistic processes at the intersection of art and technology.