Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival | Installation & AV Performance | M+

For the Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival at M+, we worked with the Indonesian musician Wahono to create a live audio-responsive and live triggered visuals using archival footage and AI-generated imagery. Presented on the Horizon Terrace the performance featured a large scale projection and live music. The festival was held from 30 May - 1 June 2025 as the second annual edition.

For the festival, we also produced a video installation for the lounge, which created a time-looped experience for visitors of passersby’s of the seating area. The theme of the festival, Time Will Tell explores the notion of time through film, video and performance, where the installation reflects on the passage of time by displaying ghosts of attendees from the past 15 minutes on a large LED wall. A web-cam in front of the screen is use to capture people chatting and sitting in the lounge and live audience interactions with the installation.

We also supported Wong Kit Yi with the post-production and subtitling for her latest lecture performance Timebombs! premiered at the festival. Through the work, the artist questions how our temporal existence is confined by our bodily condition, and how that informs our choices and responses to various global urgencies—from climate change to the fertility crisis and beyond.

About the artist

Wahono is an artist from Jakarta, Indonesia whose practice involves physical and nonphysical audiovisual forms. He is the founder and creative director of DIVISI62, a sound and visual arts label that explores identity issues, Indonesian history and the cross-pollination of world heritage. He actively performs and produces music with the group Uwalmassa.

Wong Kit Yi (黃潔宜) is a New York-based artist born in Hong Kong. She graduated from the MFA program at Yale University and moved to New York in 2012. She regards growing up in Hong Kong as a major influence on her work. Wong is inspired by the sea of her mother’s random thoughts, her spirituality, and her proactive business strategy.

Solo shows include: Futures, Again, P!, New York (2017), and Sandwich Theory: convertible painting series, a.m. space, Hong Kong (2016). Her works have been included in group projects such as Survival Kit 9, Latvian Centre for Contemporary Art, Riga (2017), In Search of Miss Ruthless, Para Site, Hong Kong (2017), and Bringing the World into the World, Queens Museum, New York (2014). Her film A River in the Freezer (2017) was collected by the Kadist Art Foundation. She is the 2017/18 Shift Resident at the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, New York, where she seeks biological answers to metaphysical questions.

Asian Avant-Garde Film Festival | Installation & AV Performance | M+

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