藍天瑀
I am blue like the expanse of the sky, splicing the heavens, delineating the infinities that bound our material world
天
I am blue like the gleam of the stones, where we find the meatspace and long for the perversion of corporeal reality
瑀
The landscapes of the human skin is blue
The materiality of the flesh is blue
The transfiguration of the Real is blue
The ode to the Eternal Forms is blue
The infinite tends to the singular
The singularity tends to infinity
The weave and its asymptotic slink is blue
Dilation of the interlaced net, of the deep black pinhole of perception
Contraction of gridlined plane, of the murky darkness of yonic wavelengths
Blue consumes its tail.
Email Lamceline.ty@gmail.com
䷂屯: A self-taught traditional Chinese seal carver, DJ and tattoo practitioner with performance and writing forming the core of their work, Blue is concerned with returning to ancestral roots and cosmologies. Blue hopes to learn to care and heal through practice and honour traditions, past(s) and histories.
Curriculum Vitae
Education
(2021 - 2024)
Goldsmiths, University of London
BA (Hons) Fine Art and History of Art
First Class Honours
London, United Kingdom
(2019 - 2020)
Nanyang Technological University School of Art, Design and Media
BFA Media Art with Specialisation in Photography and Minor in Art History
Incomplete
Singapore, Singapore
Exhibitions
(13 - 17 June 2024)
Goldsmiths, University of London Undergraduate Fine Art Degree Show
Ben Pimlott Building, Level 3, Goldsmiths, University of London
London, United Kingdom
(9 - 10 May 2024)
Liminal Entities
Milbank Podium
Performance in collaboration with Nereus Hall
Supported by UAL’s Bounce Fund
London, United Kingdom
(8 June 2023)
Kunst Affair Vol. 2
AMP Studios
London, United Kingdom
(6 - 27 August 2022)
Thresholds of Being
starch
Curated by Sheryl Gwee, Xuan Yeo
Singapore, Singapore
Panels and Talks
(14 August 2024)
EXTRACORPOREALITY: BODIES AND THE URGE TO TRANSCEND
Pushkin House
Artist talk and panel regarding critial theory and art practice
Hosted by everyoneisagirl, discussion led by Noa Fischer, curated by Ester Freider
London, United Kingdom
Writing and Publications
(January 2025)
“玄之又玄,众妙之门。(Xuan and again xuan, gate to all mysteries.)” : Daoist Philosophy and Cosmotechnics as Gateway to Reconciling our Relationship to The Cyberspace
Edited Dissertation
Published by Xeno-Futurism
London, United Kingdom
(2024)
“玄之又玄,众妙之门。(Xuan and again xuan, gate to all mysteries.)” : Daoist Philosophy and Cosmotechnics as Gateway to Reconciling our Relationship to The Cyberspace
BA Dissertation
Distinction
Supervised by Dr. Alice Andrews
Goldsmiths, University of London
London, United Kingdom
(August 2024)
Lest it disappear from the world: The Scars of Singaporean Performance Art History and the Choreopolitical Rise of Singaporean Movement Art and Butoh in the 2020s
Visual Cultures/ Art History Essay and Research Project
Distinction
Goldsmiths, University of London
London, United Kingdom
(June 2024)
spaces as traces: A Devotion to Narratives between the Thresholds of Spirituality and Digitality
Review written for Shiyun Teo First Solo Exhibition, spaces as traces at Feelium Gallery, 14 - 17 June 2024
London, United Kingdom
Performances
(19 - 20 August 2023)
Livia Rita: Dystopian Wetlands
Southbank Centre
With Avantgardeners Community
Creature/ Movement Artist
London, United Kingdom
DJ
(30 November 2024)
My Little Pony Rave
Its Not A Phase
Off The Cuff
London, United Kingdom
(19 November 2024)
[RRHO4] DJ 小 HIAO “HIAO CHIOBU OF SUNNY SINGAPORE” Mix
Radio Repellent
Featured Artist
Soundcloud
London, United Kingdom
(21 August 2024)
FREE 4 ALL
0116internetculture X Bakunawa Entertainment
Four Quarters Peckham
London, United Kingdom
(15 August 2024)
Margins Pop-Ups
Eastern Margins
The Steam Room
London, United Kingdom
(31 May 2024)
OPIA MYSPACE
Opia
Unit58
London, United Kingdom
(27 April 2024)
K2Y.mp3
Undisclosed Location
London, United Kingdom
(31 March 2024)
K2Y.mp3
Protocol, Vauxhall Arches
London, United Kingdom
(22 March 2024)
CLUBPOC
The Yard Theatre
London, United Kingdom
Tattoo
(March - April 2023)
Artist
Casa Chisme
London, United Kingdom
(10 - 11 December 2022)
barang shop!!!
Studio Lotusroot
London, United Kingdom
Work Experience
(2024 - Present)
International Liaison and Social Media Junior Fellow
Goldsmiths, University of London Art Department
London, United Kingdom
(2019)
Programming Intern
The Substation
Singapore, Singapore
2022 - 2024
Edition of 25
A3 riso print on Steinbeis 80gsm paper
Prelude
Children of the soil
Foetal mycelium
Embryonic rooting
There is death in the detritus
Children of the sun
Soles singed
Offering pearls of brine
Rotting, sticky and sweet
Children of the ineffable seas
Her heaving breath
Blinking cargo stars
Such porosity in our young souls
Children of the equatorial bloom
Folly in the foliage
Humid haze
Cognitive birth
Children of the monsoon tears
Humming thunder
The rainfall imbue our sins
Children of the sublime
Coming home
Their germination gerund
Pious to none
Filial to fear
Interlude
In the absence of piety
I mourn
I grieve
I say goodbye to all I know
In the absence of piety
I cry
I weep
I put it all to rest
In the absence of piety
I lose everything
For all I have is nothing
In the absence of piety
Everything seems meaningless
I crave for home
I love all beings
天下有始, 以为天下母。
(The world has a beginning, and it arose from the mother of the world.) – 道德经
In the absence of piety
Yet I still tether myself
Umbilical familiarity
The land holds me
In the absence of piety
A blade of grass pushes against the earth
That difficulty births beings in the material world
In the absence of piety
I am nothing
For I cannot fathom the mother
For I cannot fathom the sky, nor the earth
In the absence of piety
The heaven-being exists
有物混成，先天地生。寂兮寥兮，独立而不改，
周行而不殆，可以为天地母。吾不知其名，强字之曰道，强为之名曰大。
(There was something undefined and complete, coming into existence before Heaven and Earth.
How still it was and formless, standing alone, and undergoing no change, reaching everywhere and in no danger (of being exhausted)! It may be regarded as the Mother of all things.) – 道德经
In the absence of piety
I leave it to rest
For I do not know its name
In the absence of piety
There is death in the detritus
Such porosity in our young souls
Postlude
I hold no guilt and no shame. I do not grovel or beg for forgiveness from God, Heaven or the Earth.
I have everything yet nothing. I will always seek abundance within contentment.
Regardless of its nature, I attempt to hold all things with tenderness and strength. I long for things to pass time with me.
Regardless of my own shortcomings, I attend to making, processing, practicing and thinking. I attest to these difficulties.
My roots wilt when they are dry, my petals bloom when they are nourished. The change is what moves my being.
What I have found is the ultimate passing of time. The passing of time is the universal constant.
玄之又玄，衆妙之門。
(Xuan and again xuan, gate to all mysteries.) - 道德經
The recursivity, the oppositional continuity - 陰 (yin) and 陽 (yang). This is the logic – again, and again.
I stand, tethered to the material, between Heaven and Earth. A living creature unknowing of truth, unknowing of life or death, unknowing of good or bad.
Birth is a struggle, living is passing time. Death is easy.
Death in the Absence of Piety, 2024 (Incomplete)
Blue
Durational Performance
2.4 x 2.4m platform, tattoo equipment, hand-carved soapstone「乾」, 「坤」,「屯」seals, jungle soil
Performed at
Goldsmiths, University of London Undergraduate Fine Art Degree Show
London, United Kingdom
13 - 17 June 2024
It is an ode to life, death and the passing of time.
It is an ode to Heaven, Earth and the material creatures between them.
It is an ode to the difficulty of growth that comes with the passage of time.
Contact Lamceline.ty@gmail.com
£5 per print
Edition of 25