2025 PCM

£2,025 PCM – A New Work by X&J

A site-specific new-media film and visual art installation for unconventional surfaces

This newly commissioned work by award-winning artist duo X&J (Xin Wen & JJ Agcaoili) was selected via an open call and will premiere as part of the Kakilang 2025 Season.

About the Work

£2,025 PCM satirises the impossibility of securing a stable home in today’s London. Using humour and striking visuals, X&J subvert the glossy fiction of domestic life so often presented in the media. The work embodies the generational experience of isolation, burnout, and rising living costs, while responding directly to the housing crisis and the structural pressures of contemporary city life.

The installation combines immersive media, experimental 3D film, and physical performance. Projected onto prominent surfaces across London, it features casket-sized flats furnished with miniature furniture and absurd rent price tags, with performers struggling through daily routines inside.

Artist Conversation

Join us for a special conversation with X&J, presented in collaboration with Kakilang and Bow Arts.

• X&J will share how their lived experiences as migrant creatives in London inform their practice—the ephemerality of connections, annual moves, the transience of the city, and the relentless cost of living. They will also discuss how their design-engineering backgrounds shape their use of technology, projection mapping, and experimental film.

• Howl Yuan, Artistic Director of Kakilang, will reflect on supporting Southeast and East Asian artists across disciplines.

• Leah Jun Oh of Bow Arts will share insights into studio shortages, the housing crisis, and challenges faced by migrant artists.

Together, the panel will explore urgent themes of housing insecurity, anti-migration policies, and creative resilience through the perspectives of East and Southeast Asian practitioners.

Premiere Installation

Following the discussion, X&J will present £2,025 PCM, a projection-mapped film installation designed for 90-degree building façades across London.

Inspired by Xin’s first London studio—a space measuring just one cubic metre—the installation reimagines a “flat” furnished with IKEA-esque essentials, both absurdly tiny and impossibly expensive. The work follows Xin as she attempts to make it her own, even as her time—and right to remain in the city—counts down.

What You’ll Gain

• Insights from artists, curators, and practitioners with diverse lived experiences

• Connection with a community of migrant artists, writers, and creatives

• Dialogue on housing, migration, and cultural identity through an artistic lens

• Peer-to-peer learning on integrating technology and projection mapping into practice

• Opportunities to ask questions and continue the conversation with others

Event Details

📍 Bow Arts Trust, Courtyard Room
183 Bow Road, London E3 2SJ

🍷 Drinks and snacks provided