Luca E. Lum 

is an artist and writer attuned to arrhythmias of time, memory, and body.  

She colludes with moving image, writing, drawing, and the histories of science and technology. Presently, her work explores the ways the animal and the machine are historically entangled, becoming mirrors, proxies, and instruments that parse crisis and change, anticipation and catastrophe. She also narrativises and parses the aesthetics and horror of what she term "ghostless" or "post-hauntological time" - a condition where loss is increasingly foreclosed and the ghost is alienated from its labours. 

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.

Her projects have been supported by the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Delfina Foundation (London), NTU Centre for Contemporary Art, Singapore, and A. Farm Saigon. Her writings on illness, abandonment, eroticism, and ecological mourning have appeared in the Asian Film Archive, Nang Magazine, Cthulhu Books, and National Gallery Singapore's online platform.

She is in the early stages of a new moving image project, and two writing projects. Email her about it < 3

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

Locations: Singapore, New York City and Cambridge (MA).

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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

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