Michael’s practice relates to mutual aid, publishing and the commons. His work is situated in everyday life, affected by convivial encounters, and inspired by different autonomous spaces and communities. Michael received his PhD at the School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong, where he researched colonial and “post-colonial” entanglements, that have led to the dispossession of villagers’ homes and significant biodiversity loss in Wang Chau, Hong Kong. He has been teaching part-time for 13 years in the fields of product design, socially engaged art, social design, cultural studies and now creative writing.

Michael is the author of Typhoon No. 8 (2014), Odysseys, Rolled to Be Unrolled Again (2021) and the thesis novel To Be Rooted: Pluriversality in Wang Chau’s Struggle (2023). He occasionally reads his stories in situ and in public space. Personal and collective works have been shown at the 2012 Venice Architecture Biennale, Asia Culture Center in Gwangju (2016), Aarey forest in Mumbai (2018), Floating Projects in Hong Kong (2021) and the Chinese Culture Center in San Francisco (2023).

2023, IASPIS Residency Programme, March-May, Stockholm

2014, Artist and Farmer in residence, one year, Spring Workshop, Hong Kong

2013, Art/Activist in Residence II, September-December, Wooferten, Hong Kong

Selected book chapters

2021, Right Research: Modelling Sustainable Research Practices in the Anthropocene (Canada: Open Book Publishers)

2020, Dark Mountain, Issue 17 (UK: The Dark Mountain Project)

2016, Food and Museums (London: Bloomsbury)

2016, The Distance Plan, Issue 4 (Germany: The Distance Plan Press)

Selected essays

2022, Towards an Unintentional Press (Hong Kong: Hong Kong Review of Books)

2021, Villager Pedagogies and Backpack Organisers in Hong Kong (Sweden: Urgent Pedagogies)

2020, ​​Wormholes Between Territorial Struggles: Solidarity Through Precarity in Communities in Movement: On Experimental Practices (Bergen: University of Bergen)

2018, Part-time Pedagogies: Introducing Three Places for Emancipatory Learning (Hong Kong: Asia Art Archive)

Selected books

2023, To Be Rooted: Pluriversality in Wang Chau’s Struggle (Hong Kong: Wan Sik Press)

2023, Elms as Method (Hong Kong: Wan Sik Press)

2020, Collective Notes (Hong Kong: self-published)

2017, Solidarity Street (Hong Kong: Black Book Press)