 My performance on personal grief in devotion to my beloved father and mother. The dining table is the site where grief most manifested in daily life, as my father had difficulties swallowing food after the sudden death of my mother. It's not all sorrowful, as finding lightness and humour within the darkness became a way of relating to my father in his final months.
MAP Fest 2025, Melaka Malaysia Venue: The Baboon House Photo by JK Suah  Relishing a precious opportunity to make art in service of progressive visions for climate change and adaptation, in collaboration with the amazing visionary Colin Finn. Re-print of the event flyer by Committee of Sydney: Committee For Sydney presents Scenarios For Sydney, 1st April 2025 East Sydney, Rushcutters Bay, and Woolloomooloo are precincts rich in history, culture, and community life. However, they also face pressing challenges, from coastal erosion and housing affordability pressures to the complexities of urban renewal and supporting our most vulnerable. The question is not whether change will happen, but how we shape it. How can we how can we ensure that future development enhances, rather than erodes, the unique character and diverse communities that define these neighbourhoods? At last year's Sydney Summit, Colin Finn of Blue/Green presented a Big Idea - to Rewild Rushcutter's Bay. Join us for an event that checks in on how this Big Idea is progressing and invites urbanists, planners, social advocates, and community leaders—to present their own provocations, exploring what must be preserved, what should be reimagined, and what new opportunities we could embrace to create an inclusive, vibrant, and sustainable future for East Sydney. Speakers include:
Post-event performance: Critical Art Infrastructure Agnès Michelet, Artistic Director/CEO Critical Path - a short intro to what Critical Path is and how it is critical art infrastructure “Entangled” The ocean, a constant presence on the shores of Rushcutters Bay. A source of life and delight. A portent of destruction. As rising sea levels threaten human habitation, the shoreline becomes a contested threshold. How do we respond? Devisors: Lian Loke, Gideon Payten-Griffiths, Ira Ferris Performers: Lian Loke, Gideon Payten-Griffiths [end of event flyer] Text: Gideon Payten-Griffiths Silver mylar courtesy of Lucy Humphries In this second version of Entangled, we opted for a completely different approach. Whereas the first presentation was in the form of an immersive performance installation that created an atmosphere and narrative, given the constraints on time and access this time we decided to build the installation in real time as the speakers delivered their presentations in the Drill Hall. We acted as artist-hosts, inviting the audience into our working space, the home of Critical Path Choreographic Research Centre. We designed an orchestrated scenography that alludes to the sea (climate change) creeping up on us while we're busy living our lives! Throughout the speeches, we worked quietly in the background, manipulating silver mylar, safety mesh, sound and lights to build an environment around the seated audience. At the end of the talks, we took over and led the audience through a safety scenario inviting them to blow up the balloon taped under their seat. We culminated in a dance with the safety mesh, with Gideon singing the cryptic lyrics to Pennies From Heaven.  Photo credit: Stewart Monti
 Photo by Finton Mahoney In a parallel world dreaming of merging between species, a new creature is discovered. Plucked out of its natural habitat, it feels the curious gaze of the scientist closely examining a specimen. Video artwork by Lian Loke and Paul Warren. Live performance by Lian Loke and Michaela Davies. FEM-me exhibition, Bankstown Arts Centre  Photo by Kristina Mah
 Excited to be an artist in FEM-Me: Feminine Mechanics and Other Kinetic Systems, curated by Dr Deborah Turnbull Tillman and Rachael Kiang at Bankstown Arts Centre. Opening 28th September. Collaborators: Dagmar Reinhardt, Paul Warren. Technical assistance: Marc Katzef, Lynn Masuda. Fabrication: Chris Carroll, Ryan van Dyk, Tim Osborne, Marty Jay, Susana Alarcon. Making art with one of my fave collaborators, the extraordinary Garth Knight. A photographic series called Ebi Metamorph to be exhibited in Elena Knox's Volcana Brainstorm as part of the Yokohama Triennale in Japan.   Thrilled to be performing in an art-science collaboration with Dr Elena Knox (Waseda University) and Garth Knight as part of the Koganecho Bazaar, Yokohama, Tokyo. Performance date: Saturday, 28th September 2019 Fabrication team: Abhiruchi Chhikara Susana Alarcon Heartfelt thanks to Ruchi and Susana for their incredible work on the lasercutting, 3D printing and assembly of the shrimp tail and electronic led fibreoptic feelers, and Maya Petrovna for helping me make the headpiece.   Performance artist playing the Ice host for secret fringe event Ice.Smoke.Bär during Dark Mofo, Hobart. Curated by Anand, Alice and Allona.
Thursday 13th, Friday 14th June. Photo: Hannah Love  https://www.meetup.com/en-AU/Sydney-Interactive-Arts-Meetup/
https://twitter.com/nanoluke/status/806769635458621440  Performer in Emma Prices' 24 H(our) Diner, Day for Night 2016, Performance Space Sydney
 TEI 2016 Art Track Chairs: Lian Loke, Ineke Neutelings, George Poonkhin Khut
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