https://wendylin.com.au Wendy Lin Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:59:01 +0000 https://wendylin.com.au en https://wendylin.com.au/home-1 Sun, 12 Mar 2023 02:51:57 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/home-1 <img width="2981" height="984" width_o="2981" height_o="984" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/832c9f84af946f16d213d8537c21c6bdb912c53bdb12d5005d45ba598351c1ae/Wendy-Lin.png" data-mid="171568696" border="0" data-scale="7" data-no-zoom data-icon-mode src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/832c9f84af946f16d213d8537c21c6bdb912c53bdb12d5005d45ba598351c1ae/Wendy-Lin.png" /> https://wendylin.com.au/Milano-Idrofilica Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:59:26 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/Milano-Idrofilica Milano Idrofilica installation + performance + film located in Dropcity, Milan, Italyusing polyvinyl alcohol fabric, wire cables, string, stones from site, screws &amp; metal eyeletsdesigned, constructed and dissolved with Hellen Boje and Hao Sean Liu <img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3c219350961f70f6a6e02f480efbe98ee3b3ce4108a6ff853bbd16ebf6133d3a/142.jpg" data-mid="229821104" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3c219350961f70f6a6e02f480efbe98ee3b3ce4108a6ff853bbd16ebf6133d3a/142.jpg" /> <img width="445" height="315" width_o="445" height_o="315" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/600ed11e329a8927a0e3a22033dde644726c3c0a21e3e1eb7419e5180445d057/tunnel.gif" data-mid="229821120" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/445/i/600ed11e329a8927a0e3a22033dde644726c3c0a21e3e1eb7419e5180445d057/tunnel.gif" /> <img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/66b5390632d04dba7e477d0e6327d032c20a351fdfcbc7c9ff8cbf4431c9b9f3/143.jpg" data-mid="229821105" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/66b5390632d04dba7e477d0e6327d032c20a351fdfcbc7c9ff8cbf4431c9b9f3/143.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/760007aac982e5fe73b57ad098e8fadb1ab4f9a92c2288a9279d03046146c2d6/20241006_161546489_iOS.jpg" data-mid="229821125" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/760007aac982e5fe73b57ad098e8fadb1ab4f9a92c2288a9279d03046146c2d6/20241006_161546489_iOS.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/083e1d8e1f0c235074551bf4563583348e53d7a43242db1170d8a414589fe504/fragment-4.jpg" data-mid="229821133" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/083e1d8e1f0c235074551bf4563583348e53d7a43242db1170d8a414589fe504/fragment-4.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/cfc7e70ab927a59e33726acd540d552cea5531c7eaf8443d80a7d90e504c941f/fragment-3.jpg" data-mid="229821132" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/cfc7e70ab927a59e33726acd540d552cea5531c7eaf8443d80a7d90e504c941f/fragment-3.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/97535ad673deecbb39ad0b9b6d1b303b39fa4603d3eca8a6191e15aa4e46beb4/fragment-5.jpg" data-mid="229821134" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/97535ad673deecbb39ad0b9b6d1b303b39fa4603d3eca8a6191e15aa4e46beb4/fragment-5.jpg" /> <img width="3024" height="4032" width_o="3024" height_o="4032" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/92799db698b29281f7585c9c3a1e7ea62bf03d8dceb6b1967108e8357b8b77ff/fragment-6.jpg" data-mid="229821135" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/92799db698b29281f7585c9c3a1e7ea62bf03d8dceb6b1967108e8357b8b77ff/fragment-6.jpg" /> <img width="4032" height="3024" width_o="4032" height_o="3024" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/829277d20974cbab822c8be96cb10ea98ee9f8ec1dbfde1bd16e6a0587632ca8/20241006_161421435_iOS.jpg" data-mid="229821124" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/829277d20974cbab822c8be96cb10ea98ee9f8ec1dbfde1bd16e6a0587632ca8/20241006_161421435_iOS.jpg" /> A diaphanous tunnel spans across two portals in the vaults below Milan Central Station, serving as a threshold, a passageway, spatial connector and divider. The tensile structure made of water-soluble fabric gradually dissolves as water is sprayed on the surface. As apertures open up, the previously concealed space behind is revealed and made accessible. A tribute to Milan’s historic and contemporary relationship with water https://wendylin.com.au/Interwoven Tue, 15 Apr 2025 12:24:15 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/Interwoven <img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7297eb695fe5709885eb7edadad2cf073843542f5d75ba2ea552835456409adf/5.jpg" data-mid="229819365" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7297eb695fe5709885eb7edadad2cf073843542f5d75ba2ea552835456409adf/5.jpg" /> <img width="2480" height="1754" width_o="2480" height_o="1754" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/192de8ca79689fb35ef742476ae952063b5c28398dbc43bd81ead24f8f5f0d46/Presentation5.jpg" data-mid="229819352" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/192de8ca79689fb35ef742476ae952063b5c28398dbc43bd81ead24f8f5f0d46/Presentation5.jpg" /> <img width="3508" height="2480" width_o="3508" height_o="2480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5707c91617002475b028281ca9346b2259210452a102bb55f4dcc8cc814e95ca/12.jpg" data-mid="229819383" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5707c91617002475b028281ca9346b2259210452a102bb55f4dcc8cc814e95ca/12.jpg" /> <img width="2463" height="846" width_o="2463" height_o="846" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2d7654b11141414c64a0e0dc01d0d70493d31cfece091ac3ea1e186af659725d/Portfolio7.jpg" data-mid="229820397" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/2d7654b11141414c64a0e0dc01d0d70493d31cfece091ac3ea1e186af659725d/Portfolio7.jpg" /> Interwoven residential architecture located in Brunswick, VIC, Australia Inspired by the diversity, indeterminacy and entanglement of mycelia while interrogating the possibilities of compact living and co-housing, Interwoven addresses the pressing issues of housing affordability, climate change and urban sprawl in Melbourne. Diversity:&nbsp;Through tenure-blind design combined with numerous typologies that support a variety of living arrangements, Interwoven embraces the precarity of contemporary housing conditions and the rise of solo-dwellers as an inspiration for diversity within a thriving and resilient co-housing community. Indeterminacy:&nbsp;Moveable internal partitions and un-programmed slack spaces allow for the expansion and contraction of living zones, which facilitates an indeterminate architecture that can adapt to short-term and long-term changes. Entanglement:&nbsp;The project further promotes an architecture entangled with vegetation through transluscent, multi-layered building envelopes inspired by Japanese shoji screens. These operable polycarbonate layers create intermediate buffer spaces between the public and the private, the inside and the outside, which can be occupied by humans, plants and fungi. https://wendylin.com.au/Fabulous-Fungal-Fermenting-Foundation Thu, 16 Mar 2023 08:17:13 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/Fabulous-Fungal-Fermenting-Foundation Fabulous Fungal Fermenting Foundation &gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;&gt;︎&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt;&lt; text, film, scenographyreplacing the Maiden’s Tower, Istanbul, Turkeyimagined and published with Michael Du Hoi Ming, 2023 <img width="3240" height="2160" width_o="3240" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a2d9bd079af5fe8e8cd18c4b99747aac243477a34cd7dcd21b4aea18bde1aecb/9_Going-to-the-tower.jpg" data-mid="171869928" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a2d9bd079af5fe8e8cd18c4b99747aac243477a34cd7dcd21b4aea18bde1aecb/9_Going-to-the-tower.jpg" />A Foundation, A Cenotaph, A TowerBased on a “Phantasie”For Bill Murray Set in the middle of the Borporus in Istanbul, FFFF is the architectural and theatrical crystalisation of a fungal fantasy that questions reason, invites discussions, and catalyses transformations. FFFF challenges the very definition of cleanliness, a fundamentally human ideal. It is a distillation of prominent attitudes of today towards capitalism, globalisation, entanglement, and decay. The tower precipitates fantastic transformations through eight fermentation chambers, each containing its own temperament, questions, and ideas about the world. AUTHORS’ NOTE A Foundation, A Cenotaph, A Tower Based on a “Phantasie” As we walked by the display window of the little red book kiosk one day, the reflective silver cover of a little book caught our attention. This was how we discovered the Pristine Pilze Polluted Phantasie, written by authors (who are now good friends and collaborators of ours) Wendy Lin, Michael Hoi Ming Du, and Alice. We chose to use this contemporary surrealist œuvre as the philosophical basis of our project since we are interested in the way it challenges the very definition of cleanliness, a fundamentally human ideal. After unpacking prominent themes of the text such as capitalism, globalisation, entanglement, and decay, we distilled our thoughts and reflections into this Fabulous Fungal Fermenting Foundation. It precipitates fantastic transformations through eight fermentation chambers, each containing its own temperament, questions, and ideas about the world. As a result, FFFF is the architectural and theatrical crystalisation of this fungal fantasy that questions reason, invites discussions, and catalyses transformations. So what do we actually ferment? 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/> <img width="2160" height="3240" width_o="2160" height_o="3240" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5f35fcb684ddad6bd38dcfc22cd331a5874565139f43c6d9280deff87fb305df/8_Children-of-light.jpg" data-mid="171974851" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5f35fcb684ddad6bd38dcfc22cd331a5874565139f43c6d9280deff87fb305df/8_Children-of-light.jpg" /> <img width="3240" height="2160" width_o="3240" height_o="2160" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bbbe8ca7c9d499221b6d867994d414e142aa1ac9aea53eebe71cea4f37b72b89/9_Christmas-Lights.jpg" data-mid="171974854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bbbe8ca7c9d499221b6d867994d414e142aa1ac9aea53eebe71cea4f37b72b89/9_Christmas-Lights.jpg" /> https://wendylin.com.au/coalesce-change-dissolve Tue, 15 Apr 2025 13:18:18 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/coalesce-change-dissolve coalesce—change—dissolveEncountering mycelial assemblages through art and music with Aditya Ryan Bhat <img width="7600" height="2067" width_o="7600" height_o="2067" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/adeb3fe9a000e71256c14e22006c2f7836232199fd0622fd0a928ed8bc6056f7/myceliumb_w_small.png" data-mid="229820526" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/adeb3fe9a000e71256c14e22006c2f7836232199fd0622fd0a928ed8bc6056f7/myceliumb_w_small.png" /> Chinese ink painting on Xuan paper, 2021 Painting and log drum with live-processing, performed by Aditya Ryan Bhat. This experimental collaboration emerges from a shared fascination with those most collaborative of beings: fungi. The title is taken from a passage in anthropologist Anna Tsing’s book, the Mushroom at the End of the World, in which the author describes the ecological phenomenon of ‘assemblage’. Tsing’s assemblages are ‘open-ended gatherings’, encounters between disparate elements—both living and non-living—, in which indeterminacy and interconnection bring together and remake ways of being. Fungi are often at the heart of such assemblages; elusive underground networks of mycelium connect forests, enabling communication between organisms, and even forming a bridge between living and non-living beings. Wendy’s artwork takes inspiration from the form of mycelium with its tangle of hyphae, through the use of layering, depth, density, and texture. The music you will hear is both a response to the artwork, and to the original concept we developed on the theme of mycelial connections. In this sense, we seek to present a kind of artistic assemblage in which neither the seen, nor the heard is dominant; but rather the two interact freely to create spontaneous impressions. https://wendylin.com.au/Mouth Sat, 15 Mar 2025 11:08:37 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/Mouth kǒu 口 A space with which we are born, a space that senses itself, a space of constant becoming. conceived with Elsa Despoix and Ella Jonuzi https://wendylin.com.au/TUNNEL Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:50:20 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/TUNNEL TUNNEL A cinematic dictionary revealing how language and moving images reflect today's world. x The Substance A cinematic dictionary with Hao Liu https://wendylin.com.au/eye Sat, 15 Nov 2025 20:59:01 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/eye eye x Everything Everywhere All At Once a cinematic dictionary with Hao Liu https://wendylin.com.au/fungi Wed, 15 Mar 2023 03:08:19 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/fungi <img width="1816" height="2420" 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data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e6618f676657d777233aabb987bc823208139100cec3b52ba2dc2a39eebdf119/IMG-20230315-WA0005.jpg" data-mid="171710680" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e6618f676657d777233aabb987bc823208139100cec3b52ba2dc2a39eebdf119/IMG-20230315-WA0005.jpg" /> https://wendylin.com.au/Some-Cosmic-Tales-of-Smiljan-Radic-Told-Inside-a-Fish Sat, 26 Jul 2025 03:25:06 +0000 Wendy Lin https://wendylin.com.au/Some-Cosmic-Tales-of-Smiljan-Radic-Told-Inside-a-Fish Some Cosmic Tales of Smiljan Radić Told Inside the Belly of a Fish June 2025 <img width="2324" height="1492" width_o="2324" height_o="1492" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/df0dd4a9fe372b1aec8217cecfe8c648ae0ce6b65b92c4c7452d893cbbe8c453/fish.png" data-mid="236276251" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/df0dd4a9fe372b1aec8217cecfe8c648ae0ce6b65b92c4c7452d893cbbe8c453/fish.png" />The boy hidden in a fish, 1970 David Hockney Etching and aquatint 231 x 268 mm In an illustration for the Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, David Hockney’s delicate etched lines reveal a boy hiding inside a giant fish at the bottom of a lake. The child, curled up in its belly, resembles a foetus inside the soft shelter of a womb. The fish’s outline becomes the thin boundary keeping the dark black waters from encroaching the space inhabited by the boy.In an illustration for the Six Fairy Tales from the Brothers Grimm, David Hockney’s delicate etched lines reveal a boy hiding inside a giant fish at the bottom of a lake. The child, curled up in its belly, resembles a foetus inside the soft shelter of a womb. The fish’s outline becomes the thin boundary keeping the dark black waters from encroaching the space inhabited by the boy. The Chilean architect Smiljan Radić (1965 - ) cites this etching in his essay “Some Remains of My Heroes Found Scattered Across a Vacant Lot”. The writing adopts a stream of consciousness style where Radić wanders through a labyrinth of his heroes (artists, architects, writers) and various artefacts (photographs, models, illustrations, and fables) that have occupied a place in his mind – inviting us to glimpse inside his architecture cosmos. The essay was initially delivered as a lecture in Santiago later published in a compilation of essays in his autobiographic book Every So Often a Talking Dog Appears. The book’s cover, in white, red, and orange, is punctuated by abstract motifs that resemble Vassily Kandinsky’s graphical translation of music. The unusual title is reminiscent of Miguel de Cervantes' satirical novella, The Dialogue of the Dogs, which uses a framework of two talking and reasoning canines to expose certain realities of society. In a similar vein, the “talking dog” in Radić’s book is simultaneously philosopher and guide, leading the reader into Radić’s cryptic cosmos sprinkled with magical realism, where prose and poetry, reality and fantasy are interwoven. To dive deeper into his cosmos, let us cast our gaze back to “Some Remains of My Heroes Found Scattered Across a Vacant Lot”. In a prelude of the essay, he asserts: Heroes have to exist; people need to feel a deep admiration for certain figures, or at least for their work. I think that is the only way to generate historical continuity, if we find some value in it. One such hero is Aldo Rossi, whose name appears six times in the essay and whose book, A Scientific Autobiography, had a clear influence on Radić’s writing. Strong stylistic parallels can be drawn between the two. Resisting the standard linear structure, both texts operate in the realm of the nonrational, moved by impulses and fascinations. Rather than focusing on the architectural outcome, the two architects also address the personal and existential relationship they have with their work, which in turn forms the continuity of their architecture. In Vincent Scully’s words, the autobiographies are “changing but static, revolving around fixed points of obsession”. In Radić’s essay, free associations, fleeting memories, and impressions fade in and out of focus, as if he is constantly distracted by multiple fascinations and possible linkages. The frequent use of low modality, such as “it seems”, “perhaps”, “may”, creates a tone of uncertainty, allowing him to construct a cosmos that does not pretend to be self-explanatory, reasonable, or logical. In fact, Radić states that he attempts to generate in his writing “an enchantment through a weak certainty,” leaving “the truly real and the really true” to theorists and specialists. Undoubtedly, Radić was influenced by Rossi’s writing, who recognised that a certain limited and honest disorder might most authentically reflect the fluid and sometimes inconsistent mind of an architect. There is a lightness in the way Radić writes. Pivoting phrases such as “There is a connection between…”, “It is in these terms that…”, and “If we return to…” help Radić leap from one fascination to another and back, and the text does not burden itself with deductive reasoning or the need to reach a predetermined destination. Something briefly mentioned in the previous paragraph, such as “a thin tent”, becomes the subject of the next. The memory of “the tent of a family circus” inspires surreal imageries of “a false ceiling”, “an impoverished sky”, and a “thin wall of plastic fabric [that] separates the trapped made-up air inside from reality outside.” Radić continues to layer metaphors upon metaphors, illustrating an architecture that constitutes the thin membrane between internal fiction (the show and its spectators) and external fact (the empty football field on which the tent stands). Like the silhouette of the fish, the tent architecture upholds the suspension of disbelief – of promises of possible, yet unforeseen ways of life. One could look similarly at the fisheye lens used to photograph Constant Nieuwenhuys (another one of Radić’s heroes) in his studio. Radić starts by describing Constant seated amongst a curated arrangement of his models in a third person passive voice. In the same paragraph, the writing shifts without warning to first person perspective, “all of a sudden, we are inside his head, looking out or at ourselves through the transparent, curved tissue of his retina or his space devourers (spatiovores).” Perhaps for Radić, the fish-eye camera lens resembles in some way the architecture that upholds the fiction of Constant’s curated studio, distorting and suspending reality, swapping the observer with the observed. Radić’s internal monologue four pages later, “Once we leave there, or they kick us out, in the blink of an eye everything will exist again,” underscores his fascination with the construction of such “a momentary conviction”. Throughout the essay, fiction is always associated with the intangible. It is the winter winds that blow in the corridors of the selfish giant’s castle, of Rossi’s fog which penetrates the interior of the Basilica of Sant’Andrea in Mantua, and of wandering “almas (souls)” silently inflating the family circus tent. The castle, the basilica, and the tent are all forms of shelter that separates interior from exterior, and the fiction from reality. However, one cannot exist without the other. Radić proclaims the circus as fiction, and fiction as “a made-up face of reality”. So, if we take shelter as a generator for fiction, then it must also be essential to our understanding of reality. At the same time, the shelter should adapt to the protagonist of the fairytale. According to Radić, “the fate of all shelters, or of any studio, is tied to its inhabitant.” The fish that hides the boy, the study of St. Jerome, and the amorphous mesh model housing Frederick Kiesler to dare protective refuges for their respective inhabitants, sharing their scale, proportions, and time. Radić’s Serpentine Pavilion in 2014 was conceived with the scale of the human inhabitant and the hands of a giant in mind. Its enigmatic presence emerges as a result of layered sources of influence. On one hand, the torus form resembles ancient carved Indian stones; on the other, the folly is the scaled-up papier-mâché model of The Castle of the Selfish Giant (2010) inspired by Oscar Wilde’s tale with the same name. The voluptuous space also bears a visual connection with Kiesler’s elevated Endless House, which was conceived as “a spatial shelter to be filled with the exuberance of the life that we have yet to invent.” The translucent fibreglass blob balancing on six quarried boulders recalls the Hockney’s etching of the see-through fish, floating silently above river rocks with a child in its belly. Through a dissonant juxtaposition of rough and refined, archaic and futuristic, permanent and fragile, the building refuses to offer a singular interpretation or take part in a singular history. Openings formed by Burda patterns at the model scale become sharp cutouts at the pavilion scale. Through these cracks and openings, nature rushes inside while the fictive guts of the shell spill out. These can be traced back to Radić’s interest in Rossi’s idea of the ‘sventrata’ (gutted) view, through which we can peer into architectures’ hidden interiors. To a certain extent, “Some Remains of My Heroes Found Scattered Across a Vacant Lot” functions in the same way, carving out a hole in the fourth wall, Gordon Matta-Clark-style (another hero), and offering us a glimpse into Radić’s multi-dimensional universe. Through an open-ended rhizomatic approach (as mentioned by Deleuze and Guattari in A Thousand Plateaus), the essay puts Radić’s work in dialogue with heroic figures and artefacts, anchoring Radić’s work in the fleeting continuum of history. Perhaps it is by no coincidence that Radić’s book Every So Often a Talking Dog Appears adopts a strikingly similar cover design to A Thousand Plateau’s red and white. To use Kersten Geers’ words, “Since the past, sources have never been linear; on the contrary, there have always been multiple simultaneous influences.” Indeed, Radić’s essay affirms an architectural attitude that eagerly builds alliances with artistic, cultural, and literary reference points. Perhaps the best way to understand Smiljan Radić’s work is to see it as a momentary constellation of his collection of heroes, memories, and artefacts. His architecture exists at the nebulous boundary between fiction and reality. Every new project gives birth to a new star, generating new possibilities within a cosmos that is unstable, luminous and infinite. <img width="1000" height="1151" width_o="1000" height_o="1151" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/be991394c2130106eb455212ad93abc258615e78bd4c4b0ba3dcc521aad266ce/boy-hidden-in-an-egg-1.jpg" data-mid="236276249" border="0" data-scale="43" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/be991394c2130106eb455212ad93abc258615e78bd4c4b0ba3dcc521aad266ce/boy-hidden-in-an-egg-1.jpg" /> The boy hidden in an eggDavid Hockney Etching, aquatint and drypoint 198 x 170 mm