LONG-TERM PROJECTS
Ice Blueprint (2024–ongoing)

​Ice Blueprint is a long-term interdisciplinary research and artistic practice project that began in 2024. Taking ice as its central motif, the project unfolds through international residencies, research, experimentation, and artistic production. The project manifests through a range of outputs, including multi-material sculptures and installations, essay-films, publications, as well as both online and physical exhibitions.

Ice Blueprint seeks to challenge and reimagine the visual narratives constructed between natural materials—specifically ice—and artificial landscapes, establishing a sustainable and enduring trajectory of research and practice. 

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The 2024–2025 phase of the project focuses on experimenting with spatial and conceptual interventions in both physical and digital realms, examining how constructed environments intersect with fluid identities. The project uses Harbin’s iconic cultural form—ice sculpture—as both visual language and a point of origin, exploring how the materiality of ice reflects the complexities of globalization, cross-cultural hybridity, and diasporic subjectivity. Explores how multinationalism and cultural hybridity continue to leave imprints on both planetary and human histories. It also considers how ice can serve as a witness to the entangled layers of history and culture.

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Crucially, Ice Blueprint empowers a multi-sited ethnographic methodology across various international cities, aiming to bridge geopolitical and cultural gaps. It aspires to become a connective thread across regions, encompassing research and representation related to cultural heritage, history, contemporary technology, and spatial imagination on both local and global scales.