Sin Wai Kin brings fantasy to life through storytelling and moving image, performance and writing. Their work realizes alternate worlds to describe lived experiences of desire, identification, and consciousness. Sin’s film, A Dream of Wholeness in Parts (2021) was nominated for the 2022 Turner Prize, as well as screened at the British Film Institute’s 65th London Film Festival. Their work has been featured in solo and group exhibitions internationally. In mid-February Sin joined McKenzie Wark on the New Social Environment (Episode 1160) to discuss their new exhibition, The End Time!.

The Surrealists were my first avant-garde. I got my hands on Maurice Nadeau’s History of Surrealism (1965) at an impressionable age. I was familiar with the painters already, but it was from Nadeau that I learned that it was a movement of artists in all media whose aim was to change life, as Rimbaud said.