Focusing on the life of the Hmong people who live in the mountainous regions of northern Vietnam, on this occasion Morinaga presents an installation that overlays shamanistic rituals to wade off evil and misfortune with the honey-collecting activities of beekeepers. Through the symbiotic coexistence of humans, the environment, and life brought about by the respective dialogue between the shaman/spirits and beekeeper/bees, the work serves to introduce an alternative perspective to our social life and the coded systems that exist within it.

Ho Tzu Nyen’s ongoing project The Critical Dictionary of Southeast Asia (2012–present) poses the following question: What is Southeast Asia? In the modern sense, the term was introduced during the Second World War in a 1941 book by British-born colonial public servant John Sydenham Furnivall. This VR installation examines the gong in Southeast Asia, an instrument that connects societies and individuals through ritual music embodying a sacred cosmology. Requiring substantial resources to produce and favoured by the elite, the gong has also been associated with empire and social stratification since the Southeast Asian Bronze Age.(http://sharjahart.org/sharjah-art-foundation/projects/r-for-resonance-2019)