As part of the opening day of The Time of Our Lives, Accelerator invites you to a conversation between artist Sin Wai Kin and Therese Kellner, the exhibition’s curator.

Sin works with performance, moving image, installation, writing and print, but above all else, it is a practice of storytelling. In their work, there is an inherent concentration on the power of language over the personal and social body and a belief that the stories told about our realities also create it. They use speculative fiction to challenge normative knowledge production and cultural narratives. The binary categories that characterise our consciousness of ourselves and the world around us are disrupted through references and methods from science fiction, drag, Cantonese opera and popular culture. In Sin’s multifaceted world-building, characters, time, space, and narratives can behave with contradictions, mutations, transitions and glitches. The audience is invited to testimonies from spaces of liminality that go beyond gender and cultural dichotomies, between life and death, self and other, dream and awakening, fantasy and reality.

Saturday 19 October
The talk begins at 14:00 in the exhibition space
Duration: 1 hour
Language: English
Free entry, no registration required

About Sin Wai Kin

Sin Wai Kin (b. 1991, Toronto, CA) brings fantasy to life through storytelling in moving image, performance, writing, and print. Drawing on experiences of existing between binary categories, their work realises alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification and consciousness.

The artist was awarded the 24th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2023 and was nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize. The new work The Time of Our Lives will be shown in forthcoming solo exhibitions at Kunsthall Trondheim, Canal Projects NYC and Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong all in 2025.

Sin Wai Kin has held solo exhibitions and performances at MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo(2024); Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2023); Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2023); Somerset House, London (2022); Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York (2022); Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2020) Palais de Tokyo (Paris, 2019), Serpentine Galleries, (London, 2019), and Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taipei (2018).

Their work is held in several major collections, including the Tate Collection, the British Museum – Prints and Drawings Department, London; the Buffalo AKG Art Museum, Buffalo; and M+ Museum, Hong Kong.