Across speculative storytelling, deepfake resurrection, and AI mythologies, Myths We Call Bodies explores how contemporary Asian artists use digital aesthetics to question the structures that shape our realities. From algorithmic gazes to cosplay, these works reveal how technology both reproduces and disrupts systems of gender, labour, and visibility. Moving between online fantasy and social critique, the artists imagine alternative myths and futures where identity becomes mutable and collectively re-scripted. 

Presented in partnership with MC2.

Programme

ARIA 夢姬, dir. Yu Shien and Jin Keon, Taiwan/Canada 2025, 7mins
A female AI agent on the verge of being decommissioned shares a haunting final dialogue.

GOOD MORNING YOUNG BODY, dir. Charmaine Poh, Singapore 2023, 6mins
Revived through deepfake technology, the eternally twelve-year-old E-Ching returns to unsettle the gendered gaze that first scripted her.

Macho Mystic Meltdown: Oikouménē, dir. Natasha Tontey, Indonesia 2025, 6mins
This speculative anthology film navigates ancestral memory and technology-induced hallucinations.

Becoming Miku: Notes on Fictosexual Love, dir. Choy Ka Fai, Germany 2026, 10mins
Heartbroken by human relationships, an artist searches for a path to healing in the world of cosplay.

War Dance, dir. Inhwa Yeom | South Korea | 2025 | 8mins
Korean myth and AI collide to question the systems shaping gendered bodies and social roles.

Ode to the Centaur, dir. Chenshuo Xu, China 2023, 7mins
Masculinities and their representation in ancient mythology are explored through experiments in 3D space.

ANG48, dir. Chulayarnnon Siriphol,  Thailand 2022 25mins
A half-human half-golden-snail is born from the histories of Japanese occupation across South East Asia.