Interim Exhibition



Interim Exhibition Reflection: Hostile Hospitality & Paper-Based Parasites



The exhibition featured a table-based installation of printed ephemera: pseudo-public health pamphlets, cryptid support group posters, speculative zines, and annotated flyers. These were hand-altered—graffitied, stickered, and layered—drawing from analogue horror, urban folklore, and queer zine traditions. Viewers were invited to engage physically with the materials: to take items, annotate them, or contribute their own. The installation functioned as archive, dump site, and participatory space.



This installation marked a shift from digital, screen-based work to tactile, distributable media, while maintaining the same conceptual framework: fragmented archives, fictional voices, and coded narrative spaces. Earlier projects took form as websites or character-led digital portals shaped by internet-native formats—forums, ARGs, and fan cultures—where identity is unstable and participatory. This physical work transposed those influences into an analogue setting.




Crit feedback noted that the installation was “polite” in its spatial containment, not achieving the sprawling chaos I was aiming for, but rather just an atmosphere of mess and disorder. I planned for future iterations to spread off the table and further onto the architecture itself, crawling up walls, into corners, and across surfaces like the parasite blighting the exhibition space.