
Personhood: Iteration 4: A new iteration of the projection-mapped interactive installation exploring the boundaries of presence and identity.
ART-ACT Festival

Premiering at the ART-ACT Festival co-curated by Aura Murillo and Ina Conradi during Singapore Art Week 2023, Box Body (2023) was a site-specific anamorphic video installation that transformed the Ten Square LED billboard into a transparent volumetric container. Bypassing CGI animation, the installation utilized skewed live-action footage to create an optical anamorphic illusion, presenting a massive, crouched figure physically confined within the building’s facade. Serving to visually disrupt the regular commercial flow of the Selegie Art District, the artwork confronted passersby with a visceral metaphor for the pervasive sense of constriction that characterizes contemporary metropolitan life.





About ART-ACT Festival: “The festival featured 7 curated art pieces that were screened in two large LED billboard formats around the city of Singapore, one Ten Square, Landmark of Good at the Selegie Art District, and Media Art Nexus at the Nanyang Technological University Singapore.The pieces harness the power of art activism to engage the audience in a journey of critical thinking while creating an aesthetic experience of contemplation. They vary in style and medium of production by mixing performance art, illustration, 3D animation, photography, and videography. Together with the pieces, the artists presented a collection of art manifestos to reinforce their call to action.” (ART-ACT Festival Program Notes, 2023).












Personhood: Iteration 4: A new iteration of the projection-mapped interactive installation exploring the boundaries of presence and identity.

Self—ish: Our first multi-work solo exhibition, featuring old and new works across kinetic sculpture, video art, and projection-mapped installations.

Silent Interference: Our new video artwork, Non-moment (2025), was exhibited on an outdoor LED screen in Taiwan as a part of Silent Interference (靜噪).

AI as an Art Material: We shared our perspective on the deliberate usage of AI as an art "material" in the context of our creative practice on the first Creative Breakfast series at Helix Art Space.

Alternative Roots Festival: A rough-cut screening of our new projection-mapped short film, 2025PCM, for the day-long festival at Hoxton Hall.

An Act of Homemaking: We presented a first cut of 2025PCM and shared our experiences as migrant creatives in London at Bow Arts.

Speculum Artium: A video version of Personhood (2024) was exhibited at the Speculum Artium Festival.

Proof of Personhood: The first iteration of Personhood (2024) was developed for RAD space of Asian Art Museum in San Francisco.

Into the Future: Premiere of You.zip (2024), a video artwork exploring digital identity.

Technarte Conference: An artist talk at Palacio Euskalduna, Bilbao.

Royal Society of Sculptors: A first prototype of BEAM (2023) was exhibited at the Royal Society of Sculptors as one of the finalists of the Interplay Kinetic Design Competition.

CIRCA2023 Public Vote Prize: EMERGE:NCY (2023) received the CIRCA2023 Public Vote Prize, announced by Michèle Lamy.

Screening at Piccadilly Lights: As a CIRCA2023 Prize finalist, EMERGE:NCY (2023) was screened on the Piccadilly Lights.

Ars Electronica Festival: An adaptation of the site-specific installation Box Body (2023) for indoor exhibition.

ART-ACT Festival: The premiere of Box Body (2023) as part of Singapore Art Week 2023.
Xin Wen and JJ Agcaoili operate as XJ: a Chinese-American and Filipino artistic duo grown out of London, now working internationally. Their award-winning practice reckons with the human subject in collision with the material and digital structures that determine contemporary life. This focus is embodied in their expansive body of work across experimental video, kinetic sculpture, and immersive installation, which has been exhibited in Stockholm, San Francisco, Taiwan, Linz, Singapore, London, and more.
