Play Time
Artistic Research, Installation
June 2024
Play Time is an interactive installation that reimagines the office space as a site for fostering connection rather than division. It critiques the banality and isolating nature of a plain, semi-enclosed desk by hacking office tools and furniture, turning into musical instruments. The project originates from how a workspace can be confronting for Immigrant workers since it can be a space for microaggressions and isolation related to factors such as gender, race, language barriers and differences in work culture. For those whose legal status relies on hard-to-attain work visas, the challenges at a workplace can be especially difficult.
Inspired by the historical role of music in unionising workers and subverting oppressive working conditions, Play Time encourages collective moments where office workers can come together and play music. A jam session operates non-hierarchically and is less focused on individual outcomes than collective experience, therefore it not only confronts the prevailing quiet, hierarchical, individualistic, and productivity-centric office culture, but also fosters worker organizing and solidarity.
Exhibited at Dutch Design Week 2024
Inspired by the historical role of music in unionising workers and subverting oppressive working conditions, Play Time encourages collective moments where office workers can come together and play music. A jam session operates non-hierarchically and is less focused on individual outcomes than collective experience, therefore it not only confronts the prevailing quiet, hierarchical, individualistic, and productivity-centric office culture, but also fosters worker organizing and solidarity.
Exhibited at Dutch Design Week 2024
Our Collective Body
Artistic Research, Installation
Dec 2022
Our Collective Body is a clinic and community space offering collective therapy sessions to address and heal work fatigue experienced by the digital working class, particularly designers who spend long hours sitting in front of computers. The clinic takes a holistic approach, incorporating traditional Chinese medicine alongside collective reflections on the working conditions faced by digital designers.