Little Lo Ting is a long term research project, composed of an installation, a performance series, a video work and a series of texts

The Lo Ting is half human, half fish, a creature, a mermaid and the alleged ancestor of the people of Hong Kong. A myth co-oped by curator Oscar Ho in 1997, the year when Hong Kong was returned to China, bringing to end 100 years of British colonial rule. This mythological creature has become a way to re-imagine a future for Hong Kong, to question the multiplicity of history and how it is narrated and created. The figure of the Mermaid appears in stories as a creature that is neither here nor there, neither human nor fish. A gender fluid figure for the queer imagination. I am investigating the mermaid, or the Lo Ting, through the construction of Hong Kong’s speculative future as well as through my family and its entanglement with Hong Kong’s colonial history.

Little Lo Ting, The Royal College of Art Degree show, June 2018


Little Lo Ting, Queertopia, Curated by Gemma Rolls-Bentley for Daata Editions & If so What?, Palace of Fine Arts, San Francisco & Somerset house, Art Night, 2018


Little Lo Ting, Irruptive Chora, The Dyson Gallery, Royal College of Art, London, 2018