Join us for the opening of Queer East's exhibition { guttural },,,{ fleshless } with a short curator tour and a live playthrough led by exhibiting artist Dri Chiu Tattersfield. They will be guiding us through their browser-based game CORPSE MEDITATION FOR THE RAT UNDER MY BED AND ALSO THE UNIVERSE, and share with us their inspirations and processes.
Apr 26 2025
6.30pm - Curator Tour
7pm - Playthrough with Dri Chiu Tattersfield
The exhibition is curated by Aki Hassan and april forrest lin 林森
Part of the Queer East Festival
{ guttural },,,{ fleshless } conjures a spectrum of embodiment, exploring artistic projects, experiments, and practices that range from the enfleshed to the ephemeral, the bodily to the intangible. Rooting itself in the body as the site and host of infinite, uncomparable forms of bodily knowledges, the exhibition expands the notion of embodiment into virtual, durational, and participatory realms.
By foregrounding embodied and process-driven practices, { guttural },,,{ fleshless } invites visitors to engage sensorially, and to blur the lines between spectator, witness, and participant. The exhibition presents works across prose, drawing, computer games, sculptural installation and painting, exploring topics ranging from nightlife, foraging, the unseen, past lives, rituals, site responsivity, and translation.
The exhibition’s public programme extends the core conceptual investigation by embracing the unrehearsed. Alongside curator tours, artist talks, and playthroughs, Min Yu and By Hand will be activating the exhibition space through a live tattoo performance and an acupressure workshop respectively. For full event details, please see Queer East’s website.
Artists:
Bontyanak is a Malaysian multidisciplinary artist. Their practice centres around cultivating a resting space for dreaming—dreaming as an act of prayer, and rest as a sacred defiance. A prayer to build worlds beyond the colonial imagination, a portal to invite our hidden parts to come out and play, illuminating the unseen.
Oscar Chan Yik Long is a Helsinki-based Hong Kong-born artist with a versatile international practice focused on site-specific painting installations and drawing, often drawn on East Asian mythology. His image world and visual handwriting are entirely his own, shaped by personal, intellectual, and spiritual motivations.
Dri Chiu Tattersfield is a Taiwanese artist and educator. They write speculative games, zines, and fiction as experiments toward more caring worlds. In previous lives, they have taught high school physics and researched birds. Dri’s work can be found at hellodri.itch.io, and Dri can likely be found taking pictures of moss.
Clarinda Tse (Yung Kee 雍記) is an interdisciplinary performance maker and embodied researcher, Hong Kong-born and Glasgow-based. Their habitat explores emergent compositions of material ecologies through rituals, labour, and bodies, deconstructing capitalist time and extending imagination towards more-than-human entities. They currently think with seaweed and microplastics.
Zulaa Fleming is a Mongolian artist navigating art through the club scene. Through struggling with depression, finding motivation to paint, sculpt or draw is challenging, so they have made clubbing a stress relieving outlet for art. Through the exploration of their "club kid" identity, they focus on creating visual pieces made of duct tape.