Conrad Cheung is an artist, writer, and educator. Their work includes installations, performances, and public infrastructures that turn care, cohabitation, and public space into shared experiments. They organize work through three ongoing arcs—after spatial crisis, after ecological crisis, and after epistemic crisis—and prioritize material consequence over representation. The objective was to design a site that behaves like the practice: rigorous, participatory, research-first, and resistant to the slick portfolio mold.
The site aims to capture Cheung’s methodology: it is participatory infrastructure that maintains conceptual consistency across professional contexts while giving the client publishing autonomy.
Development by everything flow agency.
Brief + Concept
Most artist sites flatten work into grids and chronology. Cheung’s practice needed information architecture that reflects conceptual taxonomy rather than exhibition history—work that operates simultaneously as art, civic infrastructure, and research. The site also needed to support long-form writing, scores, and documentation with equal weight to visual projects, since Cheung positions as much through critical writing as through exhibitions. Interactions needed to rehearse the practice's participatory methods (community-generated drawings, collaborative feedback loops) without becoming decorative gimmicks. And the system needed to be maintainable: Cheung works fast, embedding with new institutions and launching civic-scale projects within months, requiring a platform that accommodates rapid updates without developer intervention.
Design + Interaction
Floating galleries replace chronological grids, allowing non-hierarchical presentation across media and timescales. Custom cursor-tracking turns navigation into involuntary drawing: users leave traces as they browse, mirroring how Cheung's projects collect community-generated marks. An interactive color-switching mechanism addresses the practice's concerns with queer visibility and institutional opacity: the site's entire palette transforms on command. Typography and structure are intended to be legible to disparate audiences without simplification.
The interactions of the website embody the feeling that the website is also interacting with the user, watching the user, and perhaps censoring what the user interacts with.
