Sights & Sounds: Miaoye Que

Common Discourse is a project designed to help others (and ourselves) think through creativity, focus, and intentional work—from Alex Tan & Alice Otieno.

Every Tuesday we share words from a few ideas, a quote from somebody else, and links worth sharing. On Fridays we invite a guest to share images from their camera roll and a sound that resonates with them. Words from the journal will come at least twice a month.

Miaoye Que is a Chinese-born, Brooklyn-based cultural worker who weaves text with technology. They are currently at NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program, busy cultivating a creative practice that is informed by their whims and obsessions.

Miaoye and I have been mutuals on are.na for a while, and had the opportunity to connect in person in London last summer, and in New York earlier this year. I love how infectious their curiosity and love for life is. Some of my favourite projects they’ve worked on, that I often revisit are: “Imagine If” Poem and reclaiming departures. And most recently, a site they built as part of their NYU programme, Thesis Manifesto.

Here’s what they shared with us this week.

— Alice

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Sights —

From my discontinued Seagull film camera

Sino french science park church in Chengdu, China

A door that I mistook as a mirror in which I had disappeared

I used to live near the Danube River in Budapest and took post-dinner strolls near the Parliament every day. I still often think about moving back.

The interior of a giant hollow tree I climbed up in Costa Rica

Sounds —

Listen to the whole album, in order (as per Miaoye’s request)

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