The Yung Ga Ma, a Hakka Chinese Myth

Yung Ga Ma is a project together with graphic designer and illustrator Chaimaa Lahnin. The Yung Ga Ma is a Hakka Chinese myth, a folk horror tale that is told to children, much like a Grimm’s brothers tale. There is … Continue reading

Mama’s Story

Mama’s Story is a book for my niece, Pip, a family history and family tree, a collection of stories and memories that drift in and out of the personal and the collective, the factual and the mythical, the historical and … Continue reading

Starling

Starling started as a conversation and became a 5 minute audio-video collage projected on 5 separate screens, simultaneously. The film’s soundtrack is music by Jerry Gordon (aka Moontriangle) with a VoiceOver composed of a cutup poem from a page of … Continue reading

Gilgamesh for Eiji

Made entirely from found photos and videos from the nineties and set to the music of Osaka based composer Masahiro Kanagawa, the short film is a video letter that presents the epic of Gilgamesh story in 17 minutes. It was … Continue reading

Dressing gown

DRESSING GOWN is a 10 minute video consisting entirely of appropriated footage from the black and white film Woman In A Dressing Gown that was made in 1957. The original film is considered an example of British social realism, and … Continue reading

Fax Play

Faxes is an ongoing project playing with communications technology, and started in the early nineties as a sister project to Stickers. Anonymous faxes were sent to large corporations anonymously every Friday afternoon to encourage people to stop working and discover … Continue reading

A screenshot of an imovie project with the title VIDEO LETTERS in capital letters on a red video static background. You can see small stills of the images in the trailer.

Video Letters

VIDEO LETTERS is a long film edited from Video 8 footage shot in nineties Osaka, Tokyo, Kyoto, New York, Toronto, London, Hanoi, Seoul, Lagos and Beijing, and stored in a box for 29 years. The tapes were transferred and edited … Continue reading

The building amplifies

THE BUILDING AMPLIFIES is a project by artist Pavel Matveyev with Tanya Kim’s voice recording, co-writing and editing. It was presented as a multimedia installation in the Glitter Ball showroom, with other pieces of Pavel’s work on Saturday, the 19th … Continue reading

Valls Have soundwalk

VALLS HAVE SOUNDWALK is a proposal for a public art piece by the artist Pavel Matveyev. A preliminary ‘sketch’ was presented at the ‘Hej Gävle’ group exhibition at Gävle konstcentrum in 2012 where an audience listened through headphones to a pre-recorded … Continue reading

An illustration of very colourful imaginary flowers

Imaginary flowers

IMAGINARY FLOWERS was a 3 month project where digital flowers were sent by the artist upon request to a friend or family member with invisible illnesses, disabilities, and chronic conditions who simply aren’t going to “get well soon”. Breathing in, … Continue reading

Nordic by Nature in Spanish

NORDIC BY NATURE Spanish e-book as PDF. Nordic by Nature, New voices on deep ecology; Arne Naess in the 21st century, hass had the first 3 chapters translated with the collaboration of Planeta Sostenible in Chile. The book includes interviews … Continue reading