MetaObjects 元物, Cheong Fat Factory Building, Cheung Sha Wan (2026)

16/01/2026

Final show tonight at for ’s live with . Part of the Temps d’Images Festival of and .

15/01/2026

We’re in Düsseldorf this week rehearsing for the German premiere of ’s live Delusional World at with dancer and choreographer (known for her early work with David Bowie). Join us for three shows on Thu/Fri/Sat 15-17 January 2026.

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A unique experience between dance, technology and virtual fantasy: Lu Yang creates a dizzying neon world encompassing Chinese mythology, sci-fi and hyperpop. On tanzhaus nrw’s great stage, legendary dancer and choreographer Louise Lecavalier performs live while her body is transformed into fantastic digital avatars through motion capture technology – from mutated manga creatures to cybernetic deities. The virtual world’s visual effects and camera movements are guided via a gaming controller, accompanied by GameFace’s dark and dense trap soundtrack.

Lu Yang’s live motion capture performance has already been realised with different dancers in various contexts. The version presented by tanzhaus nrw was developed in collaboration with dancer and choreographer Louise Lecavalier for the 6th International Biennial for Digital Art in Montréal in 2023. Delusional World is part of a series of Lu Yang’s live motion capture performances which transpose notions of Buddhist reincarnation (saṃsāra) as well as mutations into virtual environments. Yang incorporates his own body in her creations, staging a multitude – continuous physical proliferation, dissolution or disassembly. Dance plays a large part in this.

29/11/2025

So great being a part of this incredible team with to pull off this at . So much talent and work behind the scenes. We hope we’ll have the chance to present this again in the future!

Photos 1-5 by Walter Wlodarczyk

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Performa Biennial 2025 Commission by
Ayoung Kim ‘Body^n’ (Reads: Body to the nth) at .ny 13-15 Nov.

Performa Team

Senior Curator-at-Large
josefinabarcia Hartwig Art Foundation Curatorial Fellow
Managing Director and Executive Producer
Producer
Associate Producer
Special thanks to Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi, Curator and Manager of Curatorial Affairs.

CAST
Chai Kim as Ernst Mo
Hyesook Kim as En Storm
Kimie Parker and Jenny Gao as Shadow Dancers

Writer and Director
Studio Producer:
Ayoung Kim Studio: Soyeon .song01 rijin_yoo Haein Kim
Producer (Seoul): .crane
Studio Tech Manager:
On-site Rehearsal Assistance (Seoul):
Action Choreographer (Best Action Team):
Supporting Role Stand-ins (Seoul): ._.eozzin .1_jeongyeon
Consulting Choreographer: and
Advisory: Jaelee Kim and srunderbaryoon
Lighting Design: .studio
Operating Support (Seoul):
Research Support:
Production Assistance:
Game Engine Development: (Andrew Crowe)
Game Engine Technical Art, Level Design, & Technical Camera Operator (NY & Seoul): and
EMP Studio: Motion Capture Studio (Seoul Rehearsal)
Music, Sound Mixing & Mastering: Đ.K. (aka Dang Khoa Chau)
Show Operator (NY):
Costume Design:
Motion Capture Suit Customization: need_a_haven
Video Editing, VFX, Color Grading: Ayoung Kim

Presented in partnership with the Samsung Foundation of Culture
Co-produced by .onx .ny

Supported by Arts Council Korea, SBS Foundation, and Performa Commissioning Council members Yana Peel and Bilge OgutCumbusyan & Haro Cumbusyan.

12/11/2025

in this week for:

Performa Biennial 2025 Commission
Ayoung Kim ‘Body^n’ (Reads: Body to the nth)ny 198 Broome Street, New York, NY 10002

Nov 13, 8:30 pm
Nov 14, 8:30 pm
Nov 15, 8:30 pm
✨Tickets disappearing fast

Presented in partnership with the Samsung Foundation of Culture
Co-produced by .onx .ny

Supported by Arts Council Korea, SBS Foundation, and Performa Commissioning Council members Yana Peel and Bilge OgutCumbusyan & Haro Cumbusyan.

Performa Team

Senior Curator-at-Large
josefinabarcia Hartwig Art Foundation Curatorial Fellow
Managing Director and Executive Producer
Producer
Associate Producer
Special thanks to Ikechúkwú Onyewuenyi, Curator and Manager of Curatorial Affairs.

CAST
Chai Kim as Ernst Mo
Hyesook Kim as En Storm
Kimie Parker and Jenny Gao as Shadow Dancers

Writer and Director
Studio Producer:
Ayoung Kim Studio: Soyeon .song01 Haein Kim
Producer (Seoul): .crane
Studio Tech Manager:
On-site Rehearsal Assistance (Seoul):
Action Choreographer (Best Action Team):
Supporting Role Stand-ins (Seoul): ._.eozzin .1_jeongyeon
Consulting Choreographer: and
Advisory: Jaelee Kim and
Lighting Design: .studio
Operating Support (Seoul):
Research Support:
Production Assistance:
Game Engine Development: (Andrew Crowe)
Game Engine Technical Art, Level Design, & Technical Camera Operator (NY & Seoul): and
EMP Studio: Motion Capture Studio (Seoul Rehearsal)
Music, Sound Mixing & Mastering: Đ.K. (aka Dang Khoa Chau)
Show Operator (NY):
Costume Design:
Motion Capture Suit Customization:
Video Editing, VFX, Color Grading: Ayoung Kim

Thanks to Ilran Kim, Soyong Shin, Eriko Jimbo, Babou Sanneh, Sungwon Kim, and Art Hub Copenhagen.
With deep gratitude to Seokyung Jang

29/10/2025

We’ll be in working on a new with Ayoung Kim at Performa >> 13-15 Nov. Hope to see you there !

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Performa Commission 2025 - Come and see how female bodies can extend, multiply, be altered, assembled, and entangled.

Chai Kim , the Emmy Award winner for Outstanding Stunt Performance in recognition of her exceptional stunt work for “Squid Game”, choreographed the action seqeunces for this project, and will perform on stage in NY.

Performa Biennial 2025 Commission

Ayoung Kim ‘Body^n’ (Reads: Body to the nth)
Location: Canyon .ny
135 Delancey Street, New York, NY 10002

Buy Tickets
Thu, Nov 13, 8:30 pm / Fri, Nov 14, 8:30 pm / Sat, Nov 15, 8:30 pm

What does it mean to see your own body move in ways you never performed? In film and performance, the body double has long symbolized risk, illusion, and perfection. In Body^n, her commission for the Performa 2025 Biennial, Ayoung Kim extends this legacy of the doppelgänger into the digital realm, exploring the invisible labor of bodies as they are captured, replicated, and made unfamiliar through technologies such as motion capture and virtual reality.

What fascinates Kim is the assembled body—a body multiplied, mediated, and estranged from its origin. She situates Body^n in the fictional space where the physical bodies meet their virtual counterparts. Kim describes this condition as an “altered presence,” a term she coined to express the slippage between embodiment and representation. In this digital realm, the human body vacillates, refracted across interfaces, screens, and stand-ins.

Co-produced by Onassis ONX .onx and Canyon .ny .
Curated by Defne Ayas , Senior Curator-at-Large, Performa, and Director, Van Abbemuseum in Eindhoven, with Josefina Barcia josefinabarcia , Hartwig Art Foundation Curatorial Fellow. Produced by Esa Nickle and Alex Darby .

04/10/2025

✨Now live on the Facade - New commission Dancer in the Mirror Field by .

It was a pleasure working with Ayoung and her team on the 3D design and development of the work. Looking forward to working on a new live for in Nov!

About the work:
Dancer in the Mirror Field is a speculative fiction film depicting an annual competition organised by a delivery service platform. Coordinated by a mysterious entity, the contest aims to identify the individual with the most optimised movements. The film reflects on the contemporary obsession with efficiency and the performative effects it has on bodies in the service of wider technological and economic forces.

In the work, three versions of the protagonist Ernst Mo (an anagram for ‘monster’) compete for the coveted title in locations where past and future seem to intertwine. Following the instructions relayed to them, the three Mos begin in a large structure resembling a high-tech gladiatorial coliseum that is inspired by Hong Kong’s sleek shopping malls. They then have a dramatic chase through the neon-drenched streets of a parallel universe Hong Kong. Throughout the film, various elements from Kim’s previous works reappear alongside digital cameos of real objects in the collections of M+ and Powerhouse, the museums that commissioned the work.

Dancer in the Mirror Field is part of Kim’s acclaimed series of fiction films Delivery Dancer (2022–ongoing). It is inspired by classic 1980s Hong Kong action films and stylish animated shows like Aeon Flux (1991–1995). The kinetic visuals are created using a combination of motion capture, 3D game engines, and AI-generated imagery.

26/05/2025

Interview with .lee.wong in for the launch of her monograph 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝒐𝒇 𝑨𝒓𝒕𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒄 𝑷𝒓𝒂𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒄𝒆: 𝑹𝒆𝒕𝒉𝒊𝒏𝒌𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝑪𝒖𝒍𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒂𝒍 𝑬𝒄𝒐𝒏𝒐𝒎𝒊𝒆𝒔 𝑻𝒉𝒓𝒐𝒖𝒈𝒉 𝑨𝒓𝒕 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝑻𝒆𝒄𝒉𝒏𝒐𝒍𝒐𝒈𝒚 out on the on 27 May 2025 in print, e-book and .

👉 https://www.rightclicksave.com/article/art-after-artists-interview-ashley-lee-wong 🔗 link in bio

ART AFTER ARTISTS
A new book by Ashley Lee Wong offers a fresh perspective on art’s evolving ecologies and economies

15/05/2025

We’re in NYC working at .onx with Korean artist on a new live performance for in Nov.

Thanks to dancers & for testing the fast action motion with different scenes and avatars.

10/05/2025

We’ve finally gotten around to redesigning our website.

Thanks to for the design support.

We’re excited to share more about our upcoming projects and collaborations. Watch this space. ✨👀

28/04/2025

Book talk by .lee.wong. Sat 3 May, 4-6pm HKT (9-11am GMT) & online. Hybrid event.

Speakers:
Sunny Cheung (), Curator, Design and Architecture
Rachel Falconer (), Head of & Senior Lecturer .computing London

Register to join: 🔗 Link in bio.

In Ecologies of Artistic Practice, Ashley Lee Wong explores the economic relationships of artists working at the nexus of art and technology as they negotiate a means to make art in a neoliberal creative economy. Wong looks at the diverse ways in which artworks circulate, both online and offline, in galleries, on digital platforms, and on media facades, and investigates some of the mechanisms that enable artists to create works, including selling artworks and NFTs, grants, licensing, commissions, and artist residencies. The book also looks at the ways in which artists collaborate with corporations and develop practices as commercial entities themselves.

The book provides unique insights into the diverse creative and economic processes that shape the meaning and value of artworks. Wong seeks to shift away from notions of individual authorship and finite artworks that can be bought and sold, and instead toward an understanding of artistic practices as collaborative, social, and cultural processes. Rather than critique this economy, Ecologies of Artistic Practice opens space for engaging in hypercommercialized contexts, while considering how money is not an end goal, but a means to initiate or continue an artistic process.

The book is published by the and will be available on 27 May 2025 in print/e-book and open access.

Ashley Lee Wong, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Cultural Studies at The Chinese University of Hong Kong, and Associate Director of the MA Cultural Management programme. She is Co-Founder and Artistic Director, MetaObjects, a studio that facilitates digital projects with artists and cultural institutions.

This event is kindly supported by the and the MA in Cultural Management Programme at The Chinese University of Hong Kong and presented in collaboration with Current Plans and SATA ().

26/03/2025

We managed the of the wooden frames for this installation by Guatemalan gallery in booth 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝟭𝗖𝟰𝟳 of the Discoveries section . Thanks for their support.

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We’re now all set for our very first presentation in 𝗔𝗿𝘁 𝗕𝗮𝘀𝗲𝗹 𝗛𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴! Located at the fair’s 𝘋𝘪𝘴𝘤𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘪𝘦𝘴 𝘚𝘦𝘤𝘵𝘰𝘳, we are proud to show a booth featuring new works by 𝗛𝗲𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗰𝗼𝗹𝗶, from her latest body of work titled “𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘞𝘰𝘳𝘭𝘥 𝘜𝘱𝘴𝘪𝘥𝘦 𝘋𝘰𝘸𝘯”.

Through her innovative use of traditional materials and techniques, Ascoli invites viewers to reconsider the familiar and the foreign, the enduring and the ephemeral. Her work, poetic in nature, encourages broader discussions about the impacts of migration and the dynamics of power and expression within different cultural contexts, and the nuances that we often fail to register, translate, and fully understand.

We couldn’t be more excited to be here, so come see us at 𝗕𝗼𝗼𝘁𝗵 𝟭𝗖𝟰𝟳 if you’re in HK this week!

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25/03/2025

We worked with artist on her large scale commission for . Launched last night during . The work, Lunar Rainbow, is a moon composed of multiple fractured shards that come together to create a full moon when standing in front of the Peninsula Hotel is Tsim Sha Tsui.

We worked with Phoebe and her team to designed the fractured geometry so the full moon comes into view when standing in the correct spot. The work is now available to view as a public installation until May 2025.

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