Amberbook
edible poetry workshop 
Collaboration with Cheung Yan Yi 




Invitation text:
Amber is a fossilised tree resin, when burnt with a needle there is a caramelising scent of pine. As a gemstone, they represent the tears of god and are tear droplets from the sun.



          Photo by rain, Poster by Cheung Yan Yi


sometimes, it captures fossilised insects, flown amidst the pine’s cry. An edible amber substitute; brown sugar agar jelly will be a surface to burn symbols (out of wire), to create ripples and a poem to ponder and write collectively.  The gem will be used to sweeten tea. We invite you, to twist wire — create a letter to burn on an amber agar jelly. To decipher these squiggles and imaginations.

Soundclips
Sound zine workhshop at Floating Projects Art Bookfair 
Collaboration with Chen Mo + ASTROJOKE


Invitation text:The missing voice: “The inner voice is not a singular voice, but a multitude of voices. Many voices speak in our minds at the same time. I guess that inner voice is more than just sounds. There is a visual component to it too, the imagery that comes to our mind. It has a scent, a taste, a sense. There are a variety of stimuli. The exact spot where words fail to describe it fully…If I feel something, that feeling has no language…” —Excerpted from A Dictionary of Sensitive Sounds by Elif Öner and Evrim Kavcar, page 77

                                Poster by Chen Mo

We want to amplify the quiet activity of binding a book. No marks have to be made, we will provide loose pages/texture of imaginary sound prompts. We attached contact mics on our binding tools and everyday objects that clip, fastens and stitches. A contact mic picks up and reverberates on different surfaces. Sandwich on beeswax it plucks a siren’s cry. Taped on clips, the sound bounces and crinkles. On the back of a spoon, the wood deepens the sound, like aiming a bucket on a well.  May we shift our ears to the tools that bind loose pages, before a legible and published sequence/narrative. They can be heard, reverberated, rubbed and scratched on different surfaces, let’s spy on them and hear their inner monologues and clashes. Feel free to bring your own zines, surfaces and paper to interact with these sound clips!