Portable City No.1: Quzhou - Forming Only When Remembered in hARTslane Gallery, London, June 2025

"Why am I always moving?"



Portable Cities is a series of projection-based city models that translate memory, migration, and urban change into responsive spatial environments.

Each city is built as a small world: part animation, part archive, part emotional map. Using projection, real-time media, and audience interaction, the project explores how places are remembered after they disappear, how migrant bodies carry cities with them, and how urban experience can be reconstructed through light, movement, and touch.

Rather than treating the city as fixed geography, Portable Cities imagines it as something unstable and alive: a system that only fully appears when it is remembered, approached, or shared.


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 My migration started with things I chose: education, artistic freedom. But it was also shaped by quieter pressures
I needed to leave behind.
Expectations about gender, marriage, and what a proper life should look like for a woman from East Asia.
Seven cities. Quzhou, Hangzhou, Los Angeles, Tokyo,
Glasgow, London, Edinburgh.
I never really stopped to think what these places meant to me, until I started to make them.


Portable Cities: 7 Memory Models
(Responsive spatial system, 2025)

Portable City No.1: Quzhou - Forming Only When Remembered
Portable City No.2: Hangzhou - Floating Over the Lake
Portable City No.3: Los Angeles - The Performance of Chinatown
Portable City No.4: Tokyo - Misreading the Blossom
Portable City No.5: Glasgow - Gate in the Rain
Portable City No.6: London - The Weight of Red
Portable City No.7: Edinburgh - Anchored in the Unseen





Quzhou - disappearance, small urban memory, erased infrastructure
Hangzhou - layered memory, water, heritage, and urban transformation
Los Angeles - uninarown, alasporc laenuty ano cultural performance
Tokyo - language drift, translation, and migrant disorientation
Glasgow - erased Chinatown and urban absence
London - spectacle, visibility, and performed Chineseness
Edinburgh - hidden Chinese supermarkets as everyday anchors of belonging