Luca E. Lum  is an artist and writer 

She explores the ways the animal and the machine are entangled, becoming instruments that parse change, anticipation and catastrophe. She also examines the aesthetics of what she terms "ghostless" or "post-hauntological time" - a condition where loss is increasingly foreclosed and the ghost is alienated from its labours. 

Her projects have been supported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, the Delfina Foundation, NTU Centre for Contemporary Art Singapore, and A. Farm Saigon. 

She writes on death, illness, abandonment, disembodiment, sex and the erotic, ecological grief, and species memory. She has been published by the Asian Film Archive, Nang Magazine, Cthulhu Books, and National Gallery Singapore's online platform. 

Singapore inspires much of her (dis)orientations around time, metabolic control, misrecognition, and the horror of being anesthetized from loss.

She holds a Masters in Art, Culture, and Technology from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a bachelors in Literature from the National University of Singapore.

She was co-founder and co-director of soft/WALL/studs, a collaboratively held space, shared library, and series of actions in Singapore that experimented with renewed situations of discursivity, agency, autonomy, and communality, between 2016-2021.

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Open for commissions, editorial work, collaboration, teaching, and speaking engagements. She also worked as a technical draftsperson on a study of material heritage in tsunami-prone Aceh, Indonesia. She is open to illustration commissions of all stripes.

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Contact: ecl.luca@gmail.com, lumecl@mit.edu

Instagram: oneirocritica 

Current locations: Singapore, New York City and Cambridge (MA)