“I’m not a spiritual person” group exhibition. Blindside 2026. Photograph Sebastian Kainey.
video installation in collaboration with Ming Liew
Amazing Abomivore uses AI-generated video to speculate on non-human and post-human embodiments of the self. It takes the form of a children's educational program, complete with a nursery rhyme, creature facts, and the warm instructional tone of something made to teach. But what it introduces is the Abomivore: a spiritual creature that lives entirely outside human-centred values, ugly by design, moving like something that was never meant to be watched.
The educational format is not a wrapper. It is the method. Children's media proposes a world before anthropocentrism has fully settled in, a gaze still open to creatures that feed on happy memory particles, that don't fit into categories of useful or beautiful or relatable. The Abomivore is presented the way you might present any animal in a nature documentary for kids: here is what it eats, here is how it moves, here is where it lives. Except nothing about it maps onto the human.
The video plays through a car headrest media player, the backseat screen, the passive learning of long drives, the child looking out at everything with fresh eyes.
The educational format is not a wrapper. It is the method. Children's media proposes a world before anthropocentrism has fully settled in, a gaze still open to creatures that feed on happy memory particles, that don't fit into categories of useful or beautiful or relatable. The Abomivore is presented the way you might present any animal in a nature documentary for kids: here is what it eats, here is how it moves, here is where it lives. Except nothing about it maps onto the human.
The video plays through a car headrest media player, the backseat screen, the passive learning of long drives, the child looking out at everything with fresh eyes.
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. 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