Jennifer Teo is a cultural worker with a wide interest in socio-cultural issues, particularly those related to climate, community, liberation, feminism, food, knowledge, and spirituality. She is a co-founder of and mainly works with Post-Museum, an independent cultural and social space which aims to encourage and support a thinking and pro-active community. Founded in 2007, Post-Museum is an open platform for examining contemporary life, promoting the arts and connecting people. They create events and projects, curate, research, publish and collaborate with a network of social actors and cultural workers.
Veronyka Lau is a multidisciplinary artist that searches for meaning in the interconnectedness of all ecological relationships.Her relational works investigate and amplify how we relate to things, ourselves, and each other. Through her performance works and roles in collectives,, she explores a contemporary embodiment of the feminine as power and its mercurial quality for conveyance and resistance in a climate of crisis and decline.
The artists will undertake an investigation into paradise and utopia as shifting imaginaries. They will explore dreams, non-linear temporalities and registers of ecological shifts on Nikoi Island and in its surrounding waters. They will attempt to make these complexities perceptible through two workshops, an open studio, and an artwork which will be installed on the island.
For Jennifer, the investigation undertaken will allow her to focus on her practice of connecting community, ecology and spirituality through artmaking and writing. It will also contribute to her understanding of and connection to Nikoi Island, its water and its inhabitants and visitors, while deepening her connection with Veronyka as it would be their first collaborative artwork after knowing and working alongside each other for many years. For Veronyka, this residency builds on research initiated through her solo exhibition Palms Blow North in 2024, which examined the northward migration of palm trees as both a climatic indicator and a poetic signal of temporal and ecological displacement. On Nikoi Island, this research expands into an island-based inquiry that weaves together botanical drift, acoustic phenomena, and visual traces to explore how climate change alters not only landscapes, but also the frequencies through which environments are sensed, remembered, and navigated.
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