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.

Accelerator Café
Saturday 19 October
The talk begins at 14:00
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 the recipient of the 24th Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel 2023 for their film series Portraits (2023). Their film, A Dream of Wholeness in Parts (2021) was nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize, and included in the touring exhibition the British Art Show 9, as well as being screened at the British Film Institute’s 65th London Film Festival. Upcoming solo exhibitions include Accelerator, Stockholm (2024); Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2024). Recent solo exhibitions include MUDAM, Luxembourg (2024); Buffalo AKG Art Museum, New York (2024); Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, Berkeley (2023); Soft Opening, London (2023); Dreaming the End at Fondazione Memmo, Rome (2023); A Dream of Wholeness in Parts at Soft Opening, London (2022); It’s Always You at Blindspot Gallery, Hong Kong (2021); She’s Hopeful (2018) at Soft Opening, London (2020); Narrative Reflections on Looking at Museum of Contemporary Art, Zagreb (2020) and Indifferent Idols at Taipei Contemporary Art Centre, Taipei (2018).