22 June – 24 Oct 2025 | Brent Biennale 2025

Thrilled to be a part of the 2025 Brent Biennial, titled “Bones, stones, and calling the four elements”. Brent Biennial will unfold over four ‘rituals’ WATER, EARTH, FIRE and AIR between 22 June - 24 October, bringing together artists and community organisers.

Curated and developed by Annie Jael Kwan @alikati, the biennial programme seeks to invoke a communal spirit of gathering and imagining. It will reflect on how as communities, we gather and create - and engage with the question: what kind of world would we like to re-make?

Taking place across four sites - a public reservoir, a park, an old medical facility and a university campus, in the north and south of the borough— Harrow, Wembley and Kilburn— the ‘rituals’ will feature artists presenting workshops, talks, performance and exhibition.

Artists:

A—-Z (Anne Duffau) @a___________________________z

Yarli Allison @yarliallison

Ocean Baulcombe-Toppin @oceanloren

David Blandy @david_blandy_

JJ Chan @jjchan.co.uk

Youngsook Choi @young.sook.choi

Forms of Circulation @formsofcirculation @perks.sarah @paulstewart.alex

Arsalan Isa @arsalanek_

Capri Jiang @capri_socialdesign @grancomkitchen

Jesse Jones @jessepresleyjones

Laura König @joh.la.konig

Adeline Kueh lulu_enpassant

Nikki Lam @curiousother

Lynn Lu @lululotte

Becky Lyon @elastic_fiction

Sue Man @supasue @suecraycray

Harun Morrison @harunishere

Nick Murray @cassettewitch

Yuki Nakamura @ynstudioart

performingborders @performingborders @xavinisms @anahi_saravia @ale.cianetti

Jia Qi Quek @jiaqiquek Aaron Lim @aaron_limsy

Alexa Seligman @alexaseligman

Akira Takaishi @akiratakaishi

Francesca Telling @francescatelling

4 Jun – 7 Sep 2025 | London Open Live

Raisins in the Audience Dough: Final Movement, (2022) will be screened as part of The London Open Live’s film programme at Whitechapel Gallery!

The London Open Live is a 13-week programme that will showcase artists from different generations whose broad responses to ‘live-ness’ offer an invitation to gather around new ideas and experiences. Performances by Devika Bilimoria, Season Butler, Shaun Caton, Helen Davison, Tim Etchells, Plastique Fantastique, Helena Goldwater, i.as.in.we, William Mackrell, Nando Messias, Will Pegna, Roshana Rubin Mayhew, Mahsa Salali, Aaron Williamson and Joshua Woolford will take place Thursday to Sunday throughout June–September 2025.

A film programme will be presented in the Zilkha Auditorium & Studio featuring: Babeworld, Rita Evans, Rosie Gibbens, Adrian Lee, Lynn Lu, Jonas Lund and Sweatmother.

𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩 is a three-part project by artists Lynn Lu and Melinda Lauw referencing the shared artistic history of long-time collaborators Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman. This project was commissioned by Vanini Belarmino for the National Gallery Singapore to coincide with the 𝘕𝘢𝘮 𝘑𝘶𝘯𝘦 𝘗𝘢𝘪𝘬: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘍𝘶𝘵𝘶𝘳𝘦 𝘪𝘴 𝘕𝘰𝘸 exhibition.

𝘙𝘢𝘪𝘴𝘪𝘯𝘴 𝘪𝘯 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘈𝘶𝘥𝘪𝘦𝘯𝘤𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘶𝘨𝘩: The Final Movement was filmed separately in London and Singapore. Lynn and Melinda subjected a variety of everyday objects to “creative misuse” in the deadpan delivery style of Nam June Paik and Charlotte Moorman. The resulting footage—alongside documentation of participants responding to their prompts in the second part of this project—was combined to draw out gestural synchronicities and serendipitous occurrences that connect the two artists and the participants, as well as Paik and Moorman's exploits across the vast expanse of time and space.

Filmed by: Ana de Matos, Jootz. Edited by: Ana de Matos.

7 June 2025 | Peopling the Palaces Live Art Day

I’ll be making a durational performance on 7 June, 3-6pm, at Peopling the Palaces Festival Live Art Day, alongside Julia Bardsley, Tonny A, Ash McNaughton, Ewan Hindes, and others.

Curator Martin O’Brien brings together an intergenerational group of artists performing across multiple spaces over a three-hour duration. The day will culminate in a performance party, curated and hosted by Julia Bardsley. 

The ArtsOne Building at Queen Mary University of London will be taken over by an afternoon of durational performances and video art. Live Art Day includes some of the UK’s best-known artists, and most exciting young performance makers. All works are presented 3-6pm, and you are welcome to move between them all, coming and going as you like. Pieces will take place in studios and public spaces.

Saturday 7 June 2025

15:00 – 18:00

Queen Mary University of London

ArtsOne, Mile End Road, London E1 4PA

5 May – 27 June 2025 | Residency at Cité internationale des arts

For 2 months, I’ll be in residence at Cité internationale des arts in Paris researching the figure of the Crone and female aging through creative practice, to broaden and deepen the ways we collectively understand and experience menopause.

Pre-Christian cultures venerated the older woman – the Crone – as a figure of wisdom and power, represented by the goddesses Kali, Baba Yaga, Vasalisa, Hecate, and others. As Judeo-Christianity rose, the sacred figures of Mother and Maiden were incorporated into the religion, but the Crone was deemed too threatening due to her power and connection to death, and hence came to symbolise chaos and irrationality. By the Middle Ages, the wise old woman had become an ugly, withered, evil, and loathesome witch. Female healers, midwives, widows and spinsters, and those whose behaviour simply did not conform to social norms were accused of witchcraft. Of 45,000 executions, 90% were women, and most of them over 40 years old.

While the Ancient Greeks paid much attention to puberty, menstruation, and childbirth, and blamed many female maladies on “vexed” wandering wombs, they did not mention the climacteric at all. In fact, the word menopause was only invented as recently as 1821, in post-revolutionary Paris – in the period of crisis, rupture, and the collapse of tradition. No other culture showed as much interest in the menopause as the French for the next half century.

How then, is the climacteric treated in France, and how do Crones see themselves in this city that brought menopause to the world’s attention? Paris, of course, is a melting pot, and as such will include women from cultures that revere old age, cultures that worship youth, cultures that see menopause as a hormone-deficient disease, as well as cultures that see this crucial final life stage as transformative and liberating.

28 Feb 2025 | The Phenomenology of Blood in Performance Art; Routledge

Delighted to have contributed a chapter to this major new publication that expands the philosophical contextualisation of blood, its presence and absence, across the practice of performance art from a phenomenological perspective.

Edited by Dr Tōmei June Bacon (she/they) and Dr Chelsea Coon (she/her) this book moves through an established cannon of artists and beyond to ensure an inclusive representation of practices from a wider range of practitioners. First-hand interviews and conversations have been gathered from both canonical names as well as individuals who are prevalent in their communities and/or respective subcultures, but less represented within the frameworks of scholarly discourse. Each offers the opportunity to examine their experiences creating artworks and in turn contributes to the context of phenomenological examination within this publication through complementary scholarly texts from leading thinkers who frame phenomenological application to both visual art and transdisciplinary context.

Featuring artists through new exclusive interviews and contributions including Marina Abramović, Jelili Atiku, Ron Athey, Franko B, Niya B, Marisa Carnesky, Chelsea Coon, Victor Martinez Diaz, Rufus Elliot, Ernst Fischer, Louis Fleischauer, Poppy Jackson, Mirabelle Jones, Andrei Molodkin, Hermann Nitsch, ORLAN, Mike Parr, Greta Sharp, tjb and Paola Paz Yee, and reference to many more.

Alongside new scholarly insight by leading phenomenological and interdisciplinary art scholars and philosophers including T. J. Bacon, Chelsea Coon, Stuart Grant, Kelly Jordan, Lynn Lu, Roberta Mock, Amber Musser and Raegan Truax. Together they represent a significant exploration of intricate and dynamic responses to the cultural fabric of contemporary lived experiences across space and time through the medium of blood in performance art.

This incredible analysis of this performance art will be of huge interest to students and practitioners of live art, performance art, phenomenology, and performance philosophy.

This book can be ordered online at: Routledge Theatre and Performance - Books and Journals , Barnes & Noble and more. 20% discount via Routledge with this code: 25ESA2

21 Dec 2024 | The Analogue Attachments of Modern Love

4-5pm performance at 39+ Art Space, Singapore.

Curated by Louis Ho, The Analogue Attachments of Modern Love is a group show of female artists. Comprised of the work of 6 artists from across Southeast Asia, the exhibition is oriented around the making of things. The traditional tools of material manipulation, from the needle to the printing press, are no less utilized today than the appliances of our computerized age. If artists used to sew and knit and draw, they may be said to do the same with the keyboard and mouse today – with surprisingly non-digital results in certain cases. The machines that provide circuits of connectivity are no less instruments of the creative process in the twenty-first century than those tools that have ossified into cultural nostalgia and cottage industry in an era of wired interactivity and abstraction. 

These techniques are assimilated into the practices of the artists included in The Analogue Attachments of Modern Love. Their objects and gestures, fashioned from thread and batik and aluminium and computer printouts and, indeed, the human body itself, among a panoply of other materials, simply suggest inflected and decidedly contemporary forms of object-making.

Exhibition programme schedule: 

30 Nov, 3-4pm - Curator-and-Artists-Tour

21 Dec, 4pm - Performance Activation by Lynn Lu 

Weekends, 2-4pm - Installation-in-progress by Lim E-Lynn Joanne 

4 Feb 2023 | PASAR @ Eternal Night Market

Image credit: Lynn Lu, the ocean’s refusal to stop kissing the shore, 2019, Photo by @alikati.

PASAR @ Eternal Night Market

Saturday 4 Feb, 2023. Evening-late
Colour Factory @ 8 Queen’s Yard, London E9 5EN

To celebrate Eastern Margins’ 5th Birthday, Asia-Art-Activism presents PASAR 2.0 (Post-Asian School of Alternative Rites) at the Eternal Night Market with a booth that features queer rabbit god -temporary- tattooing (@yarlipokes), remixed rituals and divination (@witchcraftispolitical , @lululotte, @alikati), original merchandise and mysterious but delicious concoctions celebrating East and Southeast Asian joy and exquisite strangeness on this bewitching evening.

As Saturday 4th February is the first day of Spring in the Lunar Calendar - known as Lìchūn in Chinese, Risshun in Japanese, Ipchun in Korean, and Lập xuân in Vietnamese. I will be offering a composite ritual drawn from East Asian ceremonies that welcome the Spring and bring good fortune. Join me for a potent remix of Sou Khwan, Daruma Kuyō, Niannianyouyu, Kakizome, and Mamemaki!

2 Jul - 6 Aug 2022 | Emote/Icon

Emote/Icon
featuring Joshua Yang and Lynn Lu

Exhibition Opening: 02 Jul 2022, 3pm to 7pm

Exhibition Dates: 02 Jul – 06 Aug 2022

Gallery hours:
Wed to Fri: 1pm - 7pm
Sat: 1pm - 6pm

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Grey Projects is proud to present Emote/Icon, which takes as its investigative premise the pandemic sensation of the recurrence of time, and the cross-transformation of the durational and the ritual. This exhibition draws together two of Singapore's best mid-career practitioners, Lynn Lu and Joshua Yang, with their strengths in the practice of durational craft through drawing, painting, live performance and video.

Lu and Yang each navigates this contract between thought and time, picking on the everyday absurdities while illustrating how multifaceted a memory of a moment can be. Emote/Icon suggests a life for image - not as the rapid-response and of-the-moment emoticon or snapshot - but as the transmission space for temporalities that are untimely, meditative, and singular without being merely linear.

Do join us at the opening this Saturday, 3pm to 7pm! We will see you there.

Emote/Icon will run until 06 August 2022.