Mix Inn 雜居客棧
Yáo Alternative Space 窯座
21 August–6 September 2026
Artists:
Minkyung Han
Po-Yun Kuo
Aura Sun
Shimeng Liu
Daesung Lee
Co-curated as a member of sept.
PUBLIC PROGRAMME
Po-Yun Kuo
The Other Being, 2026
Opening performance | 10 mins
21 August 2026, 17:00
Ghosts, Beliefs, and Curatorial Practice
Curators’ Talk with Special Guest Chris Wan Feng
21 August 2026, 18:00
On the Threshold
Film Screening Programme
22 August 2026, 18:00
𝙎𝙚𝙤𝙪𝙡 𝘼𝙣𝙜𝙚𝙡’𝙨 𝙋𝙤𝙚𝙢
Seoul | 2025 | Colour | 35’ | In Korean with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Hiju Yoon
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙇𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝘽𝙡𝙞𝙨𝙨 極樂
Hong Kong | 2024 | Colour | 30’ | In Cantonese with Chinese and English subtitles
Dir.: Steve Li 李昊
𝙄𝙣 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝘾𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙙𝙨
Iran, UK | 2025 | Colour | 14’ | In English and Persian with English subtitles
Dir: Alexandra Bahíyyih Wain
Followed by a Q&A with director Steve Li
Do not step on the threshold.
Do not open an umbrella inside.
Do not whistle.
Do not swim in the sea.
Míxìn (迷信), commonly translated as "superstition," refers to the inherited beliefs and practices that shape everyday behaviour across East Asia despite lacking scientific basis or a clear, traceable origin. These are the small prohibitions and gestures passed down through generations: a warning against whistling at night, a reluctance to gift shoes or clocks, a habit of avoiding certain words on certain days. Though often dismissed as irrational holdovers from the past, mixin continues to inform decisions, rituals and relationships in the present, operating alongside modern, rational life.
Gathering five East Asian artists–Han Minkyung, Kuo Po-Yun, Aura Sun, Liu Shimeng and Lee Daesung–in the Mix Inn, this exhibition considers how such inherited beliefs continue to shape personal and collective identity today.
The works presented in Mix Inn form simultaneously a dialogue and their own individual narratives of reconciling the emotional and the factual, the personal and the collective, through ritualistic practices. These practices are informed both by the artists’ cultural experiences and by individual encounters with loss, uncertainty and inherited memory. The exhibition traces how mixin persists not as blind belief, but as a lived, adaptive language for navigating what cannot otherwise be explained.
迷信，（ㄇㄧˊ ㄒㄧㄣˋ；mí xìn; Superstitious）常指涉文化中世代流傳的信念與禁忌。它們未必有可考的起源，也未必能以科學驗證，卻悄然滲入日常生活：不踩門檻、不在室內打開雨傘、不送鞋與鐘、避諱某些日子的字詞⋯⋯這些看似微小的儀式與習慣，在理性與現代性的夾縫間延續，成為人們理解世界、安放情感的隱性語言。
此次展覽《𝙈𝙞𝙭 𝙄𝙣𝙣 雜居客棧》匯聚五位東亞藝術家，循著迷信的文化脈絡，探問記憶、失落與身分如何在代際傳承中交織。作品既彼此對話，也各自展開敘事，透過帶有儀式性的創作，在個人與集體、情感與現實之間游移。迷信在此成為一種面對未知的感知方式，一種仍然活在當代、持續生長的文化語言。