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EcoFutures: Planetary Thinking and Infrastructures Arts & Research Symposium 《生態未來：行星思維與基建》藝術及研究座談會 We’d like to give a warm thank you to the wonderful crowd that participated in the symposium and offered their valuable insights. Our heartfelt gratitude also goes to all speakers who presented in the symposium and workshops, and to TrAIN and Afterall for their generous support in making the event possible. EcoFutures is co-convened by David Cross and Jessica Wan with the support of University of the Arts London (UAL) @unioftheartslondon and Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN) @transnational_ual . In collaboration with Videotage, the series invites artists and researchers from Hong Kong and the UK, to share their reflections on infrastructures’ role in shaping ecological care and resilience, and how artistic practice responds to the ecological crisis. Building on the conversations at @chelseaual UAL, Videotage and EcoFutures will present two thematic panels in British Council Hong Kong’s UK–HK Symposium on ‘Sustainability in the Arts’. We will also co-curate a screening programme with Golden Thread Gallery from Belfast in response to the ecological discourse. For full details of the programme, please see link in bio. Hope to see you there! 研討會現場反應踴躍，我們感謝各位來賓的分享，讓充實的對話得以展開。我們亦向應邀出席座談會和工作坊的講者，以及在節目策劃過程中全力支持我們的 TrAIN 及 Afterall 致以由衷謝意。 「生態未來」由 David Cross 和溫傑思共同召集，並得到 UAL 和跨國藝術、身份及國界研究中心 （TrAIN）的支持。與錄映太奇共同策劃，本系列邀請英國、香港兩地的藝術家和學者，從生態和「行星思維」角度，重新審視基建如何塑造生態關懷和韌性，而藝術實踐如何回應當前面對的生態危機。 錄映太奇三月將延續 UAL 校園內的精彩交流，於英國駐香港總領事館舉辦兩場「生態未來」座談會，為英國文化協會「英國—香港藝術可持續發展研討會」節目之一；同場亦將與北愛 Golden Thread Gallery 合作舉辦放映節目，回應生態議題。 有關活動的詳細資料，請參閲個人檔案連結。期待再次見到大家！

EcoFutures Symposium: Time-based Media Archiving for Collective Memories 28 February 2026, Sat, 15:20-16:30 Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom) @chelseaual @unioftheartslondon Conducted in English. Free Admission. Online Registration is needed. RSVP link in Bio. Speakers: Phoebe Wong (Head of Research, Videotage, HK), Charlotte Procter (Collection & Archive Director of LUX, member of Cinenova, London), Anson Mak (artist & researcher, Pre-Internet HK LGBTQ+ Printed Matters Digital Archive) Moderator: Angel Leung (independent curator, HK) This panel explores how time-based media archives preserve and transmit collective experiences across communities and generations. Phoebe Wong will discuss how the Videotage Media Art Collection (VMAC) reflects Hong Kong’s social memory landscape from the 1980s to the present through thematic data mapping. Charlotte Procter will examine collective values and relationships rooted in the origins of artist-run organisations like LUX and Cinenova. Anson Mak will speak on the origins of the Pre-Internet HK LGBTQ+ Printed Matters Digital Archive and how fragmented personal oral histories reflect the broader picture of an era. Looking into how time-based media crystallised humans' emotions in the past, the panel speculates on the preservation of planetary thinking of our time. ------ Co-Curators: Jessica Wan @jesswan__ , Angel Leung @angellonkee Advisor: David Cross Presented by: UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art @transnational_ual Videotage @videotage_hk Supported by: Afterall @afterallresearch Hong Kong Arts Development Council *The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council. Image courtesy of @luxmovingimage . Photo credit: @robin_silas

EcoFutures Keynote Performance Lecture: Timeless (2013/2026) 27 February 2026, Fri, 14:45-15:45 Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom) @chelseaual @unioftheartslondon Speaker: David Cross (artist and Reader in Fine Art, UAL) Conducted in English. Free Admission. Online Registration is needed. RSVP link in Bio. This work centres on a single take of video from a fixed camera looking East from the top of the Shard building in London. Interweaving natural history and social history, ‘Timeless’ framed an emerging ecological anxiety from an urban vantage point. Today it invites reflection on the relationship between continuity and change over the intervening years. ------ Co-Curators: Jessica Wan @jesswan__ , Angel Leung @angellonkee Advisor: David Cross Presented by: UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art @transnational_ual Videotage @videotage_hk Supported by: Afterall @afterallresearch Hong Kong Arts Development Council *The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council. Image: David Cross. Timeless. 2013/2026. Courtesy of the artist.

EcoFutures Symposium: From Hacking the Past to Queering Futures: Self, Kinship, and Ecology 27 February 2026, Fri, 13.30–14.30 Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom) @chelseaual @unioftheartslondon Speakers: Yarli Allison @yarliallison (artist, HK/London), Whiskey Chow @whiskey.chow (artist, London) Moderator: Maggie Matić (Director, Auto-Italia, London) @maggiematic Conducted in English. Free Admission. Online Registration is needed. RSVP link in Bio. This panel brings together queer artistic practices and ecological thinking through the work of two non-binary East Asian artists based in the UK—Whiskey Chow and Yarli Allison. Rather than treating ecology as a backdrop, it considers ecology as an active, entangled system shaped by and shaping queer lives and cultural production. Facilitated by Maggie Matić, the conversation draws on queer theories of fluidity and kinship as ecological frameworks. It asks what intersectional queerness might offer to imagining different ways of living with one another and with the world. ------ Co-Curators: Jessica Wan @jesswan__ , Angel Leung @angellonkee Advisor: David Cross Presented by: UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art @transnational_ual Videotage @videotage_hk Supported by: Afterall @afterallresearch Hong Kong Arts Development Council *The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council. Image: Yarli Allison, In Petri Dish We Sing, 2025. Courtesy of the artist.

EcoFutures Symposium: Reimagining Collective Infrastructure and Resource Justice through Artists' Films 27 February 2026, Fri, 16:00-17:10 Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom) @chelseaual @unioftheartslondon Speakers: Lee Kai Chung @ancient___soul (artist, HK), Issac Chong Wai @isaacchongwai (artist, HK/Berlin), Adeena Mey @adeena_mey (Research Fellow and Editor, Afterall, CSM, London) Moderator: Jessica Wan (researcher and curator, HK/London) @jesswan___ Conducted in English. Free Admission. Online Registration is needed. RSVP link in Bio. This panel examines how contemporary artists rethink the collective infrastructures that shape our social, political, and ecological realities. Lee Kai Chung and Isaac Chong Wai will reflect on their works that draw on site-specific historical research to build time-based narratives, offering speculative yet grounded visions of how shared systems—logistical, communal, and environmental—are constructed, strained, and reorganised. Adeena Mey will share his related research on exhibition and curation to this topic, while artist Anahita Razmi will talk about her exploration of contextual, geographical, and ideological shifts—with a focus on shifts between an “East” and a “West”. The conversation will consider ways to reveal hidden dynamics of resource extraction, circulation, and inequity, and how moving-image practices foster new imaginaries of resource justice and collective responsibility. —- Co-Curators: Jessica Wan @jesswan___ , Angel Leung @angellonkee Advisor: David Cross Presented by: UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art @transnational_ual Videotage @videotage_hk Supported by: Afterall @afterallresearch Hong Kong Arts Development Council The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council. Image: Lee Kai Chung, Into the Thin Air, 2025-2026. Courtesy of the artist.

EcoFutures: Everyday Archiving Workshop Date: 28 February 2026, Fri-Sat, 15:00-16:30 Location: Red Room, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom) @chelseaual l @unioftheartslondon Conducted in English. Free Admission. Limited to 20 places. Online Registration is needed. RSVP link in Bio. Host: Jocelin Kee (Learning and Curatorial Assistant, Asia Art Archive, HK) How does the practice of archiving link itself to a consciousness of sustainability? In this workshop, participants will learn practical and speculative techniques for building and accessing their own archive. This hands-on session covers digital storytelling tools, community mapping techniques, and collaborative documentation strategies. Attendees will learn to read the archive in relation to both themselves and the wider ecosystem, and understand how the practice of archiving can be embedded into everyday. This workshop emphasises democratic approaches to knowledge preservation, showing how anyone can become an archivist of their environmental surroundings. . Participants are encouraged to bring 10-20 small items or materials from a finished project, such as sketches, notes, references, material receipts, experimentation, documentation, etc. Alternatively, you can be creative - a film, a body of poetry, a notebook, bibliographies, a photo album, a running path, a menu, etc. As long as it is finished, bring it along, and if there is material connected to its creation, bring that along too. Digital materials are also welcome. —-- Co-Curators: Jessica Wan @jesswan__ , Angel Leung @angellonkee Advisor: David Cross Presented by: UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art @transnational_ual Videotage @videotage_hk Supported by: Afterall @afterallresearch Hong Kong Arts Development Council The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council. Image courtesy of the speaker.

EcoFutures: Engrafting Hope Workshop Date: 27 February 2026, Fri-Sat, 15:00-16:30 . Location: Red Room, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL (16 John Islip St, London SW1P 4JU, United Kingdom) @chelseaual l @unioftheartslondon . Conducted in English. Free Admission. Limited to 20 places. Online Registration is needed. RSVP link in Bio. Host: Kwan Q Li (artist, HK) @manymerrybruises How can moving images hold hope when confronted with hopelessness, or trace tenderness through fragments of loss? This workshop, presented as a performance lecture, explores essayistic filmmaking as a way of living with grief—where making itself becomes a form of mending—drawing from the artist’s thesis on hope and hopelessness in the age of techno-positivism and related work. There will be time for quiet watching and reflection, as the workshop forms a temporary neighbourhood for participants to encounter the layered uses of documentary, poetry, and artistic research as means of emotional storytelling. Through these artistic practices, a shared space emerges—where hope is reconsidered not as resolution but as a steady practice of attentiveness, a quiet tenderness that redefines how we live, create, and stay. —-- Co-Curators: Jessica Wan @jesswan__ , Angel Leung @angellonkee Advisor: David Cross Presented by: UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art @transnational_ual Videotage @videotage_hk Supported by: Afterall @afterallresearch Hong Kong Arts Development Council The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council. Image: Kwan Q Li, O, Engraft You New, 2024. Image courtesy of the artist.

EcoFutures: Planetary Thinking and Infrastructures — Arts & Research Symposium Dates: Friday 27 – Saturday 28 February 2026 Location: Banqueting Hall, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL @chelseaual @unioftheartslondon Workshop Location: Red Room, Chelsea College of Arts, UAL Admission: Free (Registration link in bio) Format: Hybrid (Admission and Virtual Participation) Co-presented by Videotage and UAL's Research Centre for Transnational Art, Identity and Nation (TrAIN), Ecofutures: Planetary Thinking and Infrastructures brings together artists, scholars, and practitioners working in Hong Kong, the UK, and beyond. . The symposium approaches ecology and planetary thinking as intersecting lenses: ecology invites us to consider the relationships between living organisms and their environments, rethinking “home” beyond buildings to include our reciprocal ties with the world around us while planetary thinking situates these questions within a critical, interdisciplinary framework, attending to Earth as an interconnected system and highlighting the entanglements of local and transnational, past and present, human and nonhuman. . The programme – through a series of panel discussions, performance-lectures, and workshops – will explore how artistic research can reveal, intervene in, and reimagine an equitable planetary future. ----- Co-Curators: Jessica Wan @jesswan___ , Angel Leung @angellonkee Advisor: David Cross Presented by: UAL Research Centre for Transnational Art @transnational_ual Videotage @videotage_hk Supported by: Afterall @afterallresearch Hong Kong Arts Development Council The Hong Kong Arts Development Council supports freedom of artistic expression. The views and opinions expressed in this project do not represent the stand of the Council.

something forming, everything unfinished a special collaborative zine with @jesswan___ 🤍 to accompany @lili_ren_ ‘s solo show Nameless here for evermore in Shanghai @third_street_gallery The show ends. the zine — conversations, correspondence, poems, photographs — continues. Limited editions are available, message us for a copy📍 Design by @__sherriiiiiiiii__ Translation by @yanni_gai In collaboration with @magicianspace 🪅

I feel blessed getting to know Phyllis Yao ahead of her first solo exhibition in London. Thank you Alice @_aliceamati for commissioning this piece of new writing. 🎀 UN SOSPIRO is on view until 20 Dec at Alice Amati's beautiful space by great portland street if you like to see Yao's works in person! Phyllis Yao paints in the register of a sigh — the quiet span between exhale and silence. ‘Un Sospiro’, the title of her exhibition, borrows from Hungarian composer Franz Liszt’s étude of the same name, meaning a sigh, and captures her painting’s peculiar rhythm: poised between gesture and stillness, presence and disappearance. @pystrawberry - 📸: Courtesy of the artist and Alice Amati Gallery. PHYLLIS YAO UN SOSPIRO 14 NOVEMBER – 20 DECEMBER, 2025 27 WARREN STREET W1T 5NB LONDON

Independent curator and writer Jessica Wan (@jesswan___ ) has built a career on creating “culturally hybrid spaces that platform diasporic and transnational narratives.” Known for her approach rooted in attentiveness and care, her work champions narratives that complicate dominant frameworks, connecting themes of ecofeminism, evolving identity, and non-western contemporary practices. 🌐 Read our conversation with Jessica Wan on 𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚-𝙖𝙧𝙩.𝙘𝙤𝙢 獨立策展人Jessica Wan以跨國性、文化混融與生態女性主義為策展基礎，構築出誠懇而深刻的敘事空間。 🌐 到訪我們的網站，細閱完整訪問：𝙨𝙥𝙝𝙚𝙧𝙚-𝙖𝙧𝙩.𝙘𝙤𝙢 Page 1: Installation View of Lulu Wang: Human Puzzle at Sarabande Foundation, London (2024). Photography: Annie Teng. Page 2: Opening at ‘Latent Relics’ at Somers Gallery, Dylan Doe (left), Jessica Wan (middle), Jack Evans (right). Courtesy of Dennis Ngan Photography. Page 3: Latent Relics at Somers Gallery, Installation View, 2025 (Credit: Dennis Ngan Photography) Page 4: Installation View of Luke & Nik, Reconstructed Nature: The Collaborative Process at Photofusion, London (2024). Courtesy of the artist. Page 5: Performance of Lulu Wang: Human Puzzle at Sarabande Foundation, London (2024). Photography: Annie Teng. Page 6: Human Puzzle 3.0 at Sarabande Foundation, London (2024). Lulu Wang (left), Jessica Wan, Emily Steer, Nimco Kulmiye (right). Photography: Yiling Studio. Page 7: Human Puzzle 3.0 at Sarabande Foundation, London (2024). Photography: Yiling Studio. Page 8: Latent Relics at Somers Gallery, Installation View, 2025 (Credit: Dennis Ngan Photography). #artcurator #inspirationart #artexhibition #contemporaryart #artanddesign

Two weeks ago, TrAIN Associate Jessica Wan hosted a collective reading, writing and meditative tea ceremony with artist @young.sook.choi @chelseaual exploring shared histories, diasporic memories and the politics of visibility within artistic practices. Turning toward the African-Caribbean, Asian & African Art in Britain Archive, part of the Special Collections at Chelsea College of Arts Library. Guests were invited to contemplate the unfinished threads of grief and renewal, allowing personal and collective voices to emerge in openness to what healing and shared meaning-making might yet become. Supported by TrAIN Research Centre and @artfund . Image: ‘Interspecies Solace - Dismantling Total Station’, a convivial gathering, composed of storytelling, tea ceremony and collective poetry reading/writing, hosted by and Jessica Wan and Youngsook Choi as part of Foreshadowing public launch (Delfina Foundation, 2025) Credit: Ghost Chan.