UNION: World-building in Speculative Media

In this artist talk, Nancy Lee and Kiran Bhumber discuss the worldbuilding process behind UNION, a speculative sci-fi project that uses immersive media and technology to explore themes of ritual, intimacy, and surveillance. The work follows two beings who uncover ancestral memories through touch and a post-apocalyptic wedding ritual, drawing on the artists’ diasporic identities to reimagine cultural memory as embodied resistance.