https://stigmaroom.co.uk STIGMA ROOM Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:50:43 +0000 https://stigmaroom.co.uk en https://stigmaroom.co.uk/HOME Tue, 10 May 2022 22:10:49 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/HOME https://stigmaroom.co.uk/ZAO-TANG Tue, 10 May 2022 22:10:50 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/ZAO-TANG <img width="5195" height="3463" width_o="5195" height_o="3463" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5a8d23794ba9d851fe3764399e05b0b1f8c1255307f09a3b35b9396429679938/Zao-Tang-LC-x-STIGMA_HR-5.jpg" data-mid="142241406" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5a8d23794ba9d851fe3764399e05b0b1f8c1255307f09a3b35b9396429679938/Zao-Tang-LC-x-STIGMA_HR-5.jpg" /><img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7ef2fed58e06bb606d73a3a537a05ee2ebcec7392ef6cf059d350ee76a7cc39f/Zao-Tang-LC-x-STIGMA_web-42.jpg" data-mid="142241407" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/7ef2fed58e06bb606d73a3a537a05ee2ebcec7392ef6cf059d350ee76a7cc39f/Zao-Tang-LC-x-STIGMA_web-42.jpg" /><img width="2400" height="1600" width_o="2400" height_o="1600" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/50c8cb38f48be5641fb059417cdad9b053c5e4c2c258fcef249f074ad105bf6a/Zao-Tang-LC-x-STIGMA_web-1.jpg" data-mid="142241410" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/50c8cb38f48be5641fb059417cdad9b053c5e4c2c258fcef249f074ad105bf6a/Zao-Tang-LC-x-STIGMA_web-1.jpg" /><img width="2400" height="2400" width_o="2400" height_o="2400" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/720bfde35680957feea6ba036db0f3f7a77d1a274f8e2d8b2340b281c51c701e/Zao-Tang-LC-x-STIGMA_web-20.jpg" data-mid="142241412" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/720bfde35680957feea6ba036db0f3f7a77d1a274f8e2d8b2340b281c51c701e/Zao-Tang-LC-x-STIGMA_web-20.jpg" /> ZAO TANG 澡堂 230 Portobello Road October 2021 London Catalogue Press Release Archdaily Wallpaper* Nominee of Archdaily 2022 Building or the Year Awards - Cultural Architecture The curation, “Zao Tang” (bath house in Chinese), stems from an on-going exploration of the intersection between Asian identity and feminism, and the cultural charge of Asian bath houses as a ground for social exchange. The gallery not only serves as a platform for creatives of colour and their works to reach a wider community, but also as an open invitation for communities and cultural organisations to connect through art, host activities in this public room, and reclaim ownership of our streets.&nbsp; Sponsored by Arts Council England and Malin + Goetz.&nbsp; Collaborated with Local Collective.&nbsp; https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Playground Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:26:15 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Playground <img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/342f21c6d7fa80d3964066bfdf504caf354f8c33a1655fa2768c53f5f3f5637e/_D9A0500.jpg" data-mid="239328910" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/342f21c6d7fa80d3964066bfdf504caf354f8c33a1655fa2768c53f5f3f5637e/_D9A0500.jpg" /><img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6c929f77eed59936b727bcb375e2c9160f6d72f102a949aac4d415a3879a2b57/_D9A0514.jpg" data-mid="239329263" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/6c929f77eed59936b727bcb375e2c9160f6d72f102a949aac4d415a3879a2b57/_D9A0514.jpg" /><img width="6720" height="4480" width_o="6720" height_o="4480" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/5099d9349299e7ebe3318ddb1beeb25bea73993b8f5284bb6eb13585f9f96f9a/_D9A0466.jpg" data-mid="239328473" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/5099d9349299e7ebe3318ddb1beeb25bea73993b8f5284bb6eb13585f9f96f9a/_D9A0466.jpg" /> Playground (751 Art Market at Beijing Design Week)Completed BeijingChina 2022&nbsp; STIGMA was invited to conceive and imagine a hybrid art fair that integrates sustainability and uprising technology brands, along with exhibitions enhancing environmental awareness as well as of emerging artists during the Beijing Design Week 2022 at 751 Plaza, within the famous 798 Art District. Seeking to re-imagine an art fair where the integration of programs and circulation becomes spatial pockets that stimulate social activities, that is also safe and jolly as this is the first major event happening post pandemic in 798, the occupation rooted from the spatial typology of ‘playground’, a social and cultural focus within the area, nexus for stimulant for interaction, introduces and encouraging to establish new relationships between the public, art, brands and environmental awareness, interactively and fun-ly. Playground (游乐场) means literally space to wander and common ground to play, which creates the open invitation we wish to address for playing and connecting. The design and spatial curation stems indeed from the social charge of the playground that become a gathering hotspot locally and regionally for citizens despite their age, occupation, and origins—— a Chinese playground accommodates small food stalls run by locals, and the ground for playing. Various structures are built with scaffolding, not only easy-to-be-assembled-in-situ but also re-usable, minimising carbon footprint while maximising flexibility. The flexible structure house diversity of activities such as concerts, workshops and performances, as well as acting as furniture where needed. Lightweight overlays provide shelters while softening the edges, not only act as pulses of spaces for wandering and playing, but also sheltering audiences from the autumn wind of Beijing while maintaining ambience. Some of the roofs are stretched in height, where zoning are spatially happening before audience hit the floor, which is the extension of the colour zones. <img width="4480" height="6720" width_o="4480" height_o="6720" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0e5deeb56890f8af343ca6af591ec30553f738a3ae3cc6935653bd2eb3c4c69a/_D9A0558.jpg" data-mid="239329289" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0e5deeb56890f8af343ca6af591ec30553f738a3ae3cc6935653bd2eb3c4c69a/_D9A0558.jpg" /> https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Salone Tue, 14 Oct 2025 16:50:43 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Salone <img width="2915" height="4373" width_o="2915" height_o="4373" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/84c76fb0ddeda48a076f8f1f0d8abb5c1e019abd24cc53d6ccba4fe1e82f90a8/20250406_VIA-SIGNORA-49427.jpg" data-mid="239374203" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/84c76fb0ddeda48a076f8f1f0d8abb5c1e019abd24cc53d6ccba4fe1e82f90a8/20250406_VIA-SIGNORA-49427.jpg" /><img width="3723" height="5585" width_o="3723" height_o="5585" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e09e7cc4e856ab9053fff52c1d43d3393491a281d294939ec915f957f91fa4a0/20250406_VIA-SIGNORA-49432.jpg" data-mid="239374206" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e09e7cc4e856ab9053fff52c1d43d3393491a281d294939ec915f957f91fa4a0/20250406_VIA-SIGNORA-49432.jpg" /><img width="3318" height="4366" width_o="3318" height_o="4366" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/612143aa7e40bf997883fd3710f754aaef213ee26cf034c2c11671ca1c8c3f50/20250406_VIA-SIGNORA-49440.jpg" data-mid="239374207" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/612143aa7e40bf997883fd3710f754aaef213ee26cf034c2c11671ca1c8c3f50/20250406_VIA-SIGNORA-49440.jpg" /> Salone 沙龙Collaboration with Haus of Hu, part of Milan Design Week Completed Milan Italy 2025 Stigma took part in the Milan Design Week with Salone.&nbsp; https://stigmaroom.co.uk/The-Unknown-Cloud Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:59:20 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/The-Unknown-Cloud <img width="2000" height="1125" width_o="2000" height_o="1125" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ec04138e56a810eb7270d7c4530173d93878ee87d1e704cc9eaacf45726f7b41/lauren---2.png" data-mid="239330186" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ec04138e56a810eb7270d7c4530173d93878ee87d1e704cc9eaacf45726f7b41/lauren---2.png" /><img width="1600" height="900" width_o="1600" height_o="900" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/3b7deb907c6e4826df230fd0a4305acbc60de702cebe4257e93beefb15853d83/axo-1.png" data-mid="239330187" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/3b7deb907c6e4826df230fd0a4305acbc60de702cebe4257e93beefb15853d83/axo-1.png" /><img width="1500" height="844" width_o="1500" height_o="844" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/e065edf104306c693b3af93fa50a7bc1bfbdb1ec928951912d939bc923f42614/entrance-1---1.png" data-mid="239330184" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/e065edf104306c693b3af93fa50a7bc1bfbdb1ec928951912d939bc923f42614/entrance-1---1.png" /><img width="1552" height="873" width_o="1552" height_o="873" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0dfda27287dbc355c6c8730b7036417ca9c39292352744156b06b62e5e39ec2b/tunnel---2---ps.png" data-mid="239330185" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0dfda27287dbc355c6c8730b7036417ca9c39292352744156b06b62e5e39ec2b/tunnel---2---ps.png" /> The Unknown Cloud by Penny Xiaodan Xu and Yifeng Wei Shortlisted Hyundai Motor StudioBeijing China 2023 The Unknown Cloud is an exhibition proposal by curator and researcher Penny Xiaodan Xu and Yifeng Wei. STIGMA was commissioned for exhibition design that integrates the idea of surveillance immersively in the space while creating a theatrical sequential exhibition experience.&nbsp; https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Childhood-Scenes-by-Chris-Zhongtian-Yuan Mon, 13 Oct 2025 15:02:26 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Childhood-Scenes-by-Chris-Zhongtian-Yuan <img width="1706" height="1279" width_o="1706" height_o="1279" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0cac535436490e538895ee90cfd992fcd8cae1935fa9e02ab42893ad5e631107/Weixin-Image_20251013162108.jpg" data-mid="239327854" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/0cac535436490e538895ee90cfd992fcd8cae1935fa9e02ab42893ad5e631107/Weixin-Image_20251013162108.jpg" /> Installation View Tests <img width="1600" height="1200" width_o="1600" height_o="1200" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/491a61e96ca192c9032a676f0be4a964d44ea0181ac9f16bc7981614e7b6b242/Copy-of-View-1.jpg" data-mid="239328008" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/491a61e96ca192c9032a676f0be4a964d44ea0181ac9f16bc7981614e7b6b242/Copy-of-View-1.jpg" /> Tests Childhood Scenes by Chris Zhongtian Yuan (CUTE Exhibition)Completed&nbsp; Somerset HouseLondon United Kingdom 2024&nbsp; STIGMA designed the installation for Somerset House resident, multi-media artist Chris Zhongtian Yuan, for the piece inspired by Czech and Chinese communist TV programmes, re-enacting the spaces from the artist’s memory. The installation is specially designed for this stop-motion animation.&nbsp; https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Try-Before-You-Buy Tue, 10 May 2022 22:10:51 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Try-Before-You-Buy <img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b9f540526980d7b7ce94a380af1968ae6f88db6dee144c385f621dd164c34ace/Nested-Sequence-01.jpg" data-mid="142241414" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b9f540526980d7b7ce94a380af1968ae6f88db6dee144c385f621dd164c34ace/Nested-Sequence-01.jpg" /><img width="1440" height="810" width_o="1440" height_o="810" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/ce3caa9e326a3bc16f995f33fe8a77362dd5b7511b6238c1ceacc5d9fd7d2c1c/Sequence-04_1.jpg" data-mid="142241413" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/ce3caa9e326a3bc16f995f33fe8a77362dd5b7511b6238c1ceacc5d9fd7d2c1c/Sequence-04_1.jpg" /> ‘Try Before You Buy’ Examplary clip screened at Polygon Gallery&nbsp; North Vacouver&nbsp; 2021 ‘Try Before You Buy’ is an interactive film including a personalised simulation kit of trying genders. It aims to challenge the social norm of binary gender, through guided performative experiences physically and socially. Is there an incongruity between the body and the performative, the image and the attitude?&nbsp; Single channel HD video, sound, color, 4’48”, drawing, text https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Letter-to-Mr-Tadpole Tue, 10 May 2022 22:10:51 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Letter-to-Mr-Tadpole <img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/64375297ba88ea58556b00e7a9373c564cddc981a8d8b20b1217615054300228/Letters_to_Mr_Tadpole_01.png" data-mid="142241416" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/64375297ba88ea58556b00e7a9373c564cddc981a8d8b20b1217615054300228/Letters_to_Mr_Tadpole_01.png" /><img width="1920" height="1080" width_o="1920" height_o="1080" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a4632e2beb73871207a6ec844a57a0e9cf5a2feb6c8422b46a8cd961806c83f4/boat-export046.jpg" data-mid="142241417" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/a4632e2beb73871207a6ec844a57a0e9cf5a2feb6c8422b46a8cd961806c83f4/boat-export046.jpg" /> Letters to Mr Tadpole The 195th annual exhibition of the Royal Scottish Academy Edinburgh In the nation, approximately 6.9 million people live without any legal identity due to these individuals being born outside the law of the one-child policy. Without IDs, many are forced to immigrate to cities where there is a high demand for illegal workers. Through an investigation into one such city, the project puts forward the claim that the state directly benefits from its own creation of a second-class citizen; from the cheap labour that it offers and the electronic manufacturing in the city that it allows to thrive. The project can be read in two stages: The first is a constructed pseudo-fictional narrative. The core of this fiction is based on true found evidence, but fiction is consciously chosen as a medium that has a history of circulating dissident thought in an otherwise highly censored environment. The second is a body of evidence that is created to be used in a future claim for reparations for the non-identical population. Single channel HD video, sound, color, 11’40”, drawing, texttive.&nbsp; https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Hacking-into-the-Filmic-World Tue, 10 May 2022 22:10:51 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/Hacking-into-the-Filmic-World <img width="3360" height="2100" width_o="3360" height_o="2100" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/729f1caba3a71e34b23e82c8097ff7949089096ed63aba159fa3672f21b87e64/Screenshot-2021-05-01-at-20.31.03-1.png" data-mid="142241418" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/729f1caba3a71e34b23e82c8097ff7949089096ed63aba159fa3672f21b87e64/Screenshot-2021-05-01-at-20.31.03-1.png" /><img width="1536" height="2048" width_o="1536" height_o="2048" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/bb53548f1393bcdbd2eb6ff9853a3498538a8a97e13bd839ba281d5f197eedeb/271913540_313223610856691_234925414664268763_n.jpg" data-mid="142241419" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/bb53548f1393bcdbd2eb6ff9853a3498538a8a97e13bd839ba281d5f197eedeb/271913540_313223610856691_234925414664268763_n.jpg" /><img width="1557" height="876" width_o="1557" height_o="876" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/65d5d7e4238d49bbdb3d29bacaca132d70b9deaf44139a5e03a2cbe5f9076956/shutian-zhou-hacking-into-the-filmic-world-2048x.jpg" data-mid="142541491" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/65d5d7e4238d49bbdb3d29bacaca132d70b9deaf44139a5e03a2cbe5f9076956/shutian-zhou-hacking-into-the-filmic-world-2048x.jpg" /><img width="2048" height="512" width_o="2048" height_o="512" data-src="https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/b74789c6ab9da7a6c96e1edc5d5b700a4926ee92d6a6a9bf7d4a883e5ce40abd/shutian-zhou-hacking-techniques-2048x.jpg" data-mid="142541492" border="0" src="https://freight.cargo.site/w/1000/i/b74789c6ab9da7a6c96e1edc5d5b700a4926ee92d6a6a9bf7d4a883e5ce40abd/shutian-zhou-hacking-techniques-2048x.jpg" /> Hacking into the Filmic World London 2021 This project seeks to respond to the central question of Johanna Hedva’s “sick women theory”, what is an alternative way to speak out against gender inequalities when physical protest is not an option? We initiated a service from December 2020 to July 2021 "Hacking into the filmic world" to enable feminism advocacy. Films are highly censored and rhetoric. The narrative of a good woman changes over varying policies. A set of tools have been developed; alternating filmic elements and narratives. With these tools, we have collaborated with more than 15 women to hack into films to change the narratives of good women and advocate for their rights. Single channel HD video, sound, color, 11’40”, drawing, texttive.&nbsp; https://stigmaroom.co.uk/A-Playground-for-Climate-at-0-n-0-w Tue, 10 May 2022 22:10:52 +0000 STIGMA ROOM https://stigmaroom.co.uk/A-Playground-for-Climate-at-0-n-0-w A Playground for Climate at 0ºn, 0ºw Reimagining Museum for Climate ActionGlasgow Science Centre Glasgow 2020 Imagine a museum in the future being a safe playground of collective endeavour and realisation to a greener future. The proposal, developed for this competition, is a set of protocols, manifested as a hand-book that radically challenges the normalised climate of museum spaces.&nbsp; They outline and inject a series of green actions and reactions into existing museum spaces, often focusing on the mundane, the kind of actions and choices people make everyday as museum visitors and curators. The protocols are designed to be intentional and peculiar, each offering an alternative to conventional ways of operating and experiencing a museum. These measures bring an immediacy to the sometimes abstract nature of the climate crisis narrative by scaling down a larger problem into small actions.&nbsp; For instance, taking off your shoes might be insignificant but the resulting consequence adds up to create shifts in the macro scale of the system. The amount of detergents required to clean the space daily are decreased; energy and capital invested in equipment to control thermal comfort or dust level can be cut.&nbsp; Beyond that, the factory line-up, input chemicals and pollution brought about in support of production and transportation of cleaning products and manufacturing of shoes can be positively down-sized. Like a ripple, a small intentional action will reverse a sequence of carbon-loaded activities when we start to change our everyday choices and habits.&nbsp; Many of these measures are not novel, yet taken to extreme, the museum becomes a common ground where our geopolitical and generational boundaries dissipate into a shared vision, anyone can be part of this multilateral advocacy for planetary well-being . The curation of these protocols lend ownership to its community.&nbsp; The process of implementing these protocols encourages sustainable partnership with local institutions and stakeholders. Different museums can adapt and appropriate these measures accordingly, with each being a unique variation of a collective effort. In 2015, British supermarkets took up the pioneering role of charging customers for plastic bags, which has consequently positively changed the lifestyle of a nation. &nbsp;We see museums in the future as laboratories, they play a leadership role in testing novel environmental conscious ideas. In 2000, the japanese island of Shikoku began their zero waste challenge. Household waste must be separated into no fewer than 45 categories, before being taken to a collection centre. The regulations seem bizarres compared to conventions, however they are in fact so straightforward and impactful that anyone with the right mind can carry them out.&nbsp; Extending the experimental spirit of Shikoku Island into developing our museum manual, we hope to see a similar paradigm shift starting from our cultural fragment, further highlighting a museum's role as a carrier where simple acts of daily life, kinship and togetherness between all lives are framed, elevated and celebrated. Linking immediate actions and radical transformation in function, this proposal for future museums imagines a cohesive and radical experience that brings the immensity of the climate crisis down to an intimate level. The urgency is made visible and hope begins to be found when words are turned into actions. Collaborated with Michelle Sin and Tiffany Cheung.