Beyond the Shore - Alysa Leung@If Time's Limited

Jan 142 min read

🥈 2nd Prize, 2023 FACP - Clare C. & Friends Fellowship

About Beyond the Shore

Beyond the Shore is an ongoing oceanic artistic research project that delves into the

realm of sea myths and legends, livelihoods from ancient times, and speculative futures. Focusing on Inter-Asian maritime histories and feminist mythologies, this project connects people from in-land to sea civilisations through research, public sharing, and performances, and invites alternative modes of thinking from a land-based to a sea-based perspective. The work also works from a relational approach between various cultures across geographical locations.

This project aims for an interactive exhibition with speculative fiction, ai-generated

images, moving image mapping, knot art, and live dance performances which connect mythological sea stories. It intertwines digital and physical art and a live performance connecting the sense of time. Through this immersive exhibition, the audience is invited to re-imagine their relationship to East Asian ocean myths, folklores, and histories, and discover traces of sea civilisations from prehistoric times to their speculative futures.

About Alysa Leung@ If Time's Limited

This research is initiated by artist Alysa Leung, scholar Dr. Evelyn Wan, and filmmaker Anson Sham. In different editions of the research and performance, we collaborate with other artists and creative partners.