Nineteen Ways of Looking is a digital artwork that explores experiences of anti-Asian racism during the COVID-19 pandemic through an experimental online format. Presented as an Instagram opera, the work combines music, text and visual imagery across a sequence of short posts that unfold collectively as a narrative. Through fragmented perspectives and poetic reflection, the project examines how racialised perceptions shape everyday encounters and public discourse.

By using social media as both medium and stage, Nineteen Ways of Looking transforms a familiar digital platform into a site for performance and storytelling, inviting audiences to reflect on visibility, prejudice and the complex realities of contemporary diasporic life.