Research Themes ︎︎︎ Living Archives ︎ Climate Justice ︎ VR Storytelling ︎ Global South Perspectives
“How could immersive storytelling connect Cold War infrastructures, labor migration, Indigenous displacement, and geological time to reveal the hidden ecological and social costs behind global coffee consumption?”
Combining archival research, oral history interviews, with VR, the installation treats memory as a living archive. It examines how coffee, often consumed as a global commodity, carries within it histories of socialist solidarity, colonial extraction, and environmental transformation.
Project Research & Sketches (selected)
Development project (2026–ongoing)
Supported by research collaborations in Vietnam and Germany
Partner discussions with Vietnam National Museum of Nature and Ede Yarns – Ê Đê cultural collaborators.
“ How can climate and geological data be transformed into tangible interfaces that reveal the entanglement of tectonic activity, agriculture, and colonial commodity systems?”
Tales from the Sunda Plate is a multimedia installation that translates weather patterns, volcanic activity, and coffee cultivation into interactive audiovisual experiences. Inspired by the tectonic plate that shapes Southeast Asia, the work uses conductive objects and sensor-based interfaces to allow visitors to physically engage with environmental data.
The project investigates how geological processes condition agricultural systems and how these systems are embedded in colonial histories of extraction. Coffee serves as a key lens, linking fertile volcanic soils to global supply chains and climate vulnerability.
Developed during a Culture Moves Europe residency, the installation represents my ongoing interest in making complex planetary processes perceptible through embodied interaction. It aligns closely with research into tangible climate futures and computational storytelling.
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Basalt Entanglement
Developed within Culture Moves Europe residency
Hibridalab, EUS, Spain, 2024
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Tools: TouchDesigner · Playtronica and conductive interfaces · Data visualization · Laser cutting & 3D printing
“ Why are certain species cultivated and celebrated, while certain human bodies are controlled and denied the right to move?”
One day, an unfamiliar flower appeared on my balcony in Berlin. Tracing the flower’s origin to the Middle Eastern coast, I began to ask how plants travel, adapt, and are welcomed across borders, while many humans from the same regions face increasing restrictions, surveillance, and exclusion. What seemed like a minor botanical event became the starting point for a broader artistic investigation into migration, climate change, biodiversity, and unequal systems of mobility.
This project explores flowers as living archives of colonial trade, ecological transformation, and social injustice. Botanical gardens offer a concentrated image of the world brought together in one place, yet their collections are rooted in histories of extraction, classification, and the movement of species through imperial networks. Flowers continue to circulate globally as commodities, luxury goods, and symbols of beauty, while also serving as critical ecological actors that sustain pollinators and urban biodiversity. The project asks: Why are certain species cultivated and celebrated, while certain human bodies are controlled and denied the right to move?
In the context of climate change, flowers become indicators of planetary transformation. Rising temperatures and shifting seasons alter flowering cycles, species distributions, and relationships between plants and pollinators. Urban gardens and balconies function as micro-ecosystems where these changes can be observed directly. Drawing on biodiversity research, postcolonial theory, and artistic practice, I aim to study how flowers reveal the entanglement of ecological resilience and political inequality.
The project is structured around three interconnected themes:
- Location-Based Climate Storytelling: Beginning from my balcony and Berlin’s botanical landscapes, the research uses local observation to uncover global histories of migration, colonialism, and environmental change.
- Planetary Connection: Flowers are understood as nodes in vast ecological and geopolitical networks linking soil, insects, humans, trade routes, and atmospheric systems.
- Future-Building: Through speculative design and immersive storytelling, the project imagines postcolonial gardens as spaces where ecological and social justice can be cultivated together.
This project grows from a personal reflection I once made while starting to work as an artist in Germany: “I hope one day I can talk about flowers without having to talk about racism.” Rather than separating these subjects, this research embraces their interconnection. Flowers become both biological beings and political witnesses, offering a way to think through borders, belonging, and coexistence. Through the New Practice Master programme, I want to develop this inquiry into a transdisciplinary artistic methodology that connects postcolonial critique, biodiversity, and climate futures to imagine more just and ecologically connected ways of living together.
Related Project Jardin D’Hivers
Potential collaboration with alotifarm e.V.
Botanical Garden Berlin
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Treffpunkt: der Vulkan
4.Treffpunkt: der Vulkan
“ How could collaborative worldbuilding and immersive storytelling create counter-narratives to migration, institutional power and representations of Vietnamese and other diasporic communities in Germany?”
Treffpunkt: der Vulkan is a collaborative VR installation originally developed within the lumbung framework of documenta fifteen. The project uses fictional characters and mixed-reality storytelling to explore Germany’s “welcome culture” from intersectional feminist perspectives.
In its extended phase, the project focuses on Vietnamese-German women* and intergenerational migration histories since the 1970s. Through interviews, photogrammetry, and audio collage, it examines how diasporic identities are shaped by displacement, labor, solidarity, and social participation. The work seeks to challenge stereotypical representations by foregrounding personal narratives and community knowledge.
Visitors enter a shared virtual landscape where documentary testimony and speculative fiction intersect. By embodying an additional character, they become participants in a collective worldbuilding process.
In its extended phase, the project focuses on Vietnamese-German women* and intergenerational migration histories since the 1970s. Through interviews, photogrammetry, and audio collage, it examines how diasporic identities are shaped by displacement, labor, solidarity, and social participation. The work seeks to challenge stereotypical representations by foregrounding personal narratives and community knowledge.
Visitors enter a shared virtual landscape where documentary testimony and speculative fiction intersect. By embodying an additional character, they become participants in a collective worldbuilding process.
Exhibition
documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022)
SOMA Berlin (2024)
sellerie weekends, Berlin (2025)
Developed with *foundationClassCollective
Collaboration with artists and researchers across Germany and beyond
︎︎︎Reflections text on collaborative experiences in Curatorial Practice
Curating space: Bottom-up/Bottom-down/Bottom-around
Exhibition
documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022)
SOMA Berlin (2024)
sellerie weekends, Berlin (2025)
Developed with *foundationClassCollective
Collaboration with artists and researchers across Germany and beyond
documenta fifteen, Kassel (2022)
SOMA Berlin (2024)
sellerie weekends, Berlin (2025)
Developed with *foundationClassCollective
Collaboration with artists and researchers across Germany and beyond
︎︎︎Reflections text on collaborative experiences in Curatorial Practice
Curating space: Bottom-up/Bottom-down/Bottom-around
Curating space: Bottom-up/Bottom-down/Bottom-around
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