‘You can’t get better and not be vulnerable. You learn this. You grow older. You no longer believe that you are made of ruins.’
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‘When you've got a camera you're a step back; you're looking at a scene without really taking part in it. You're actually watching it rather than participating, in that way.’
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‘Be honest. Be vulnerable with yourself, especially if you can’t be vulnerable with others around you…’
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‘When you go to the Blue Mountains and you see that one Chinese restaurant that has those chopsticks fonts written on the outside, that’s the Asian mimicry typeface I’m talking about.’
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‘General practice and writing are good companions. One skill essential to both is empathy.’
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‘I can’t get out of the habit of thinking of words, lines, and the spaces between as another kind of music.’
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‘I am displaced from the place I have left and still disconnected to the place that I have moved into.’
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‘Mystery on the internet is a bit overrated.’
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‘I think it’s a personal responsibility to seek complex narratives and dialogues that drill more critically in to Australia’s history as an environmental, colonial, immigrant, global and Indigenous space.’
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‘I’ve waited my entire life for media that accurately represents me and all of my identities, with dignity and authenticity. It never came. So we decided to make it ourselves.’
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‘Asian-Australians are a community and identity with a history unto ourselves, and screw anyone who challenges us on it.’
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‘People want to laugh as well as learn more about themselves. It’s the comedy of curiosity.’
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‘First and foremost, I bring my cultural contexts to my work. That’s why I put my cultural and religious identities in my biography, even though this may be seen as crass or too pointed.’
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‘I've seen a big shift in the way that people book female, gender-diverse and POC artists over the past few years in Sydney.’
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‘The cultural criticism I enjoy writing the most originates with a question or a concern that I’m unable to resolve.’
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‘When you make social or political work, you do it with the hope that it might contribute to changing the world in some small way, and so you are building the future.’
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‘I’ve come to appreciate that history and our collective capacities are as important as one’s own capacity.’
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I really do believe in art as a refuge.
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Looking back, I guess there is something endearing about being able to hear the imperfections that are derived from human performance.
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Surviving as artists in capitalist, patriarchal, White Supremacy is made deliberately hard. Sometimes, the fact that you have lived another day is an achievement in itself.
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