"Of Myriad Origins" is a video performance that grapples with queer monstrosity through the lens of traditional body modification, such as tattooing and teeth blackening, and the demonisation of the practice during colonialism. Departing from the origins of the Vietnamese tattoo traditions, of whom people who worked in the water would tattoo themselves with scales and eyes of water monster as a form of sacred protection, the performance oscillates between monstrosity as a perceived threat and as a rendering of hybrid identity.

Of Myriad Origins

screening during Salon of Queer Indoctrinations, Worm Rotterdam, NL. 2025. Image:RADVLAD Multimedia