is a multimedia performance artist, creative technologist, and interdisciplinary maker whose work bridges the embodied, the ecological, and the digital. Born and raised in Hong Kong, he creates multisensory works that draw from his lived experience as a queer migrant and from his dual training in computer science and contemporary dance. His practice integrates interactive technology, movement research, plant life, and visual media to explore belonging, memory, ecological care, and the futures that emerge when bodies and environments co-create meaning.
He works both individually and as one half of the artist-researcher duo Ghost and John, a long-term creative partnership with his husband, John Chan. As a married couple and co-founders of Hidden Keileon CIC, they make embodied works about queer migrant experiences, dreaming of futures with porous boundaries, lush gardens, and liberation after collapse. Their practice is shaped by fragmented memories of displacement, intimate relationships, and the entanglements between human bodies, technological systems, and the natural world. They create across dance, spoken text performances, interactive installations, videos, and research-led creative processes.
Ghost and John’s artworks have been presented internationally in theatres, galleries, festivals, outdoor spaces, and unconventional sites, including Bow Arts, Pushkin House, Bloomsbury Festival, CCA Goldsmiths, ImPulsTanz Vienna, and Goethe-Institut Hong Kong. Their collaborative recognitions include:
- ‘Two Plant Gaysians’ theatre headliner for Migration Matters Festival (2025), shortlisted for the Charlie Hartill Fund (2024),
- ‘Entwine - The Room’ (2024) at Pushkin House,
- 'Paradoxical Gasps’ (2022) funded by Arts Council England,
- ‘Radio Neighbourhood’ (2021) awarded the Ideas and Pioneers Fund by the Paul Hamlyn Foundation,
- and more.
As a creative technologist, Ghost experiments with the use of interactive technology and immersive visuals to generate unique spectating experiences. His notable works include:
- ‘Bitter Moves Sweet Truths’ (2023), three-screen projection and live feed video techniques, shortlisted for the Untapped Award,
- ‘Cart Noodle Show’ (2021), an interactive game show over Zoom with live animation and pre-recorded videos,
- ‘I’M NOT SURE’ and ‘Meniscus’ (2019), instant messenger audience interaction,
- and more.
Ghost’s individual practice centres the relationality between the body, plant life, and technology. He lives with and cares for over one hundred houseplants, many of which form part of his sculptural, installation, and performance works. His installations often feature living ecologies, time-lapse footage, photography, and live camera systems that translate natural processes into visual poetry.
He is also an analyst programmer specialising in Android development with Model-view-viewmodel (MVVM) architecture pattern and website development. He designs projections, runs creative productions, operates stage shows, edits videos and photos, and a lot more. He holds a BEng in Computer Science, HKUST.
Beyond the above, Ghost lends his skills to projects as a performer and choreographer. He has received an MA in Contemporary Dance, The Place, and was trained under Siu Wan from SHOW DANCE back in Hong Kong. His works were shown internationally, including Tate Modern, Kasino am Schwarzenbergplatz, Pleasance London, CCA Goldsmiths, Streatham Space Project, Omnibus Theatre and more.
Across all his work—as an artist, technologist, performer, gardener, and collaborator—Ghost is committed to ethical technology, ecological sensitivity, and art that cultivates connection, imagination, and collective transformation
Instagram: @ghosososost
LinkedIn: Ghost Chan
CV available on request. Please contact him through ghost@ghostandjohn.art.
