About the workshop

The workshop reflects on the process of two works: Isabelle Desjeux's Giggling Weeds, in which the viewer is invited to touch weeds and hear them laugh, as if they had been tickled, and Debbie Ding's Wasteland, and anthropocenic lyric poem as virtual world. 

Using hobby electronics we will activate weeds from Singapore's wastelands to hear them speak!

This workshop is part of the program EXPERIMENT. 

Recommended age: 14 years old and above, adults. 

Your children can also take part in their own Birds Mask workshop at the same time as you, with the artist Betty!

Location: Alliance Française, Seminar Room 3

About Debbie Ding

Debbie Ding (born in 1984 in Singapore) is an artist-scholar working across the intersection of artistic research, technology and game studies - with professional experience as design educator, interaction designer, and game designer-developer.

Her work was shortlisted for the President's Young Talents 2018 and Impart Art Awards 2020 and is collected by the Australian War Memorial and Singapore Art Museum. Notable exhibitions include "Temporal Shifts" at Ars Electronica 2024, "Radical Gaming" at HeK Basel, "Worldbuilding" at Julia Stoschek Foundation Dusseldorf, "Wikicliki" at Singapore Biennale. Scholarship (Visual Art), and funded residencies with Australian War Memorial (Canberra), Dena Foundation (Paris). Her ongoing practice-based PhD research explores virtual worlds in games as a medium for artistic practice.