Current Residents Amy Cheung
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Amy Cheung, Ashes Unto Pearl, Sound Installation (188 voices broadcasting an ultimate question simultaneously) View at Guangzhou Triennial, 2008
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Amy Cheung, A bleeding Toy from Childhood, Interactive Sculpture with a Virtual Game Enabling Viewers to Shoot any Artwork around it, Installation View at Saatchi Gallery,2013
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Amy Cheung and Philip Zimbardo, Imagine.Hero, Video Stills and Installation View at Museo Nazionale d’Arte Medievale e Moderna, 2013
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Amy Cheung, TimeBank the Game: The Record of an Experiment, Video Still, 2024
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Amy Cheung, Memory Portal, Community Workshop at Institute for Public Architecture, 2025
Amy Cheung is an interdisciplinary artist from Hong Kong whose practice merges psychology, technology, and social engagement. Her work explores human agency amid crisis. Ashes unto Pearl cries out simultaneously ‘an ultimate question’ by 188 strangers. TimeBank THE GAME is a six-week alternate reality experience where 100 players commit to real-world environmental repair earning TimeCoin, critical to their survival in a virtual dystopia. In collaboration with psychologist Philip Zimbardo, they entered an fMRI scanner to “imagine heroes”- the activated brain regions were painted with their own blood.
Can art question, heal, provoke—pain us into reimagine futures?
At HIAP Suomenlinna, I’ll start researching scenarios for BILL & WILL — 7 Sins, an interspecies opera tracing a submerged sculpture’s search for its lost twin. Unfolding across seven acts, each reveals a wound inflicted upon water. BILL (development)—inspired by the Kalevala’s Lemminkäinen’s Resurrection—is reassembled from riverbed ruins, awakening with senses capable of recording environmental data. WILL (preservation) remains missing—lost to neglect, erosion, abduction, or erasure. Guided by signals from non-human species—riddles, spells, and forensic data—the opera explores ecological grief, fractured deities, scientific sensoria, and deep time.