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Artist Yarli Allison and botanical designer Orin Chung invites you to craft in the Deheat Series, a hands-on workshop that revives ancient plant-based healing methods in thinking about modern medicine approaches with future biotechnologies.

Drawing from practices of ‘Deep Medicine’ (Raj Patel and Rupa Marya) alongside Sino-botanical wisdom on addressing imbalances in the inner body like ‘heat toxins’ (Cantonese: 熱毒 Jit6 Duk6) and ‘damp-heat’ (濕熱 Sap1 Jit6), the artists invite you to restore the harmony of your full being: to connect symptoms as part of an interwoven web of identities, stories, people, non-humans, land, and environments while biotech advances.

You are invited to craft wearable talismans, brew your restorative tea, sip to reset your nervous system.

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Workshop - Deheat Veg Hair: Talisman making at Wing Yip

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Workshop - Deheat Mud Mud: Talisman Bao Bao

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Related Artwork: In Petri Dish We Sing

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🧫 Through the lens of a stem cell clinic in the year 2135,
In Petri Dish We Sing envisions a world where embryonic stem cells (ESCs) become a raw,
sustainable material that forms the very fabric of the city’s infrastructure.
Inspired by MIT’s research on the Lemon Skin Chair and Yarli’s exploration of
the healthcare system and gender health gaps, the film envisions a society reconstructed
from this regenerative substance, one that carries the traces of cellular memory.