“I’m not a spiritual person” group exhibition. Blindside 2026. Photograph Sebastian Kainey.
video installation in collaboration with Ming Liew
This project engages AI-generated video to speculate on non-human and post-human embodiments of the self, responding to the exhibition title I’m Not a Spiritual Person. It proposes a revival of neo-folklore—new age creatures that inhabit a shared cognitive ecology. Through AI systems, these generated embodiments express abilities, desires, inner thoughts, ways of living, and capacities to thrive within systems beyond the human form.
Conceived as a collaboration between Ming Liew and Barcode People (Qihao Liang and Tong Shu), as well as a collaboration with AI itself, each participant works independently to produce video works that reflect their own speculative transformation. The videos are presented alongside the prompts that generated them, foregrounding process over belief and exposing the mechanics behind the imagined forms.
Positioned as an attempt to resist anthropocentrism, the project challenges utilitarian and essentialist frameworks that reduce non-human life-forms into lower or instrumental categories. In doing so, it reframes “spirituality” not as faith, but as a reflective negotiation with desire, technology, and the limits of being human.
Conceived as a collaboration between Ming Liew and Barcode People (Qihao Liang and Tong Shu), as well as a collaboration with AI itself, each participant works independently to produce video works that reflect their own speculative transformation. The videos are presented alongside the prompts that generated them, foregrounding process over belief and exposing the mechanics behind the imagined forms.
Positioned as an attempt to resist anthropocentrism, the project challenges utilitarian and essentialist frameworks that reduce non-human life-forms into lower or instrumental categories. In doing so, it reframes “spirituality” not as faith, but as a reflective negotiation with desire, technology, and the limits of being human.
"Amazing Abomivore" is a spiritual creature.
It lives beyond human-centred values.
That means we do not look at it by asking if it is cute, soft, or useful to people.
Instead, we learn about the Abomivore in its own special way.
The Abomivore has its own style. Its own spirit.
And its own way of being in the world.
It does not look like other animals.
It does not move like other animals.
And that is what makes it so interesting....
image Credit to Ming Liew