CO2RE Artists: Yambe Tam
The Rite of the Ten Winds
“The Rite of the Ten Winds” is an interactive VR experience embedded in an unfolding dialogue around the climate crisis, natural processes of greenhouse gas removal (GGR), and the technologies that seek to expedite these processes. Shifting across scales, technologies, and temporalities, it examines contemporary GGR projects that are currently undergoing research and development in the UK. Land and sea-based GGR methods are envisioned as more-than-human, neo-Pagan rituals that are part of a cultural shift where the biosphere and technosphere converge to symbiosis.
The artwork will be publicly exhibited in spring/summer 2026 with each ritual occurring periodically at sunset, weaving together natural rhythms with the digital world and evoking a transition in our relationship to nature.
Images: Selection of Yambe Tam’s previous work, credits: Yambe Tam
About the Artist - Yambe Tam
Yambe Tam is an Asian-American artist based between Oxfordshire and London creating virtual worlds and sculptural installations that contemplate the evolving relationship between consciousness and environment. These immersive and interactive experiences draw upon scientific research, gaming, and Zen monastic practice to merge human, animal, and machine into new depths of communion, heralding the post-human age.
Her work has been exhibited internationally at institutions including Science Museum, London (2024); Two Temple Place, London (2023); the Korean Cultural Centre, Berlin & London (2022-23); FACT, Liverpool (2021); Attenborough Arts Centre, Leicester (2021); presented in festivals, workshops, and conferences at the Black Hole Initiative, Harvard University (2024); Big Data Institute, University of Oxford (2023); and WASD Curios (2022) among others. She has been artist in residence with the Jerwood Arts/FACT Digital Fellowship (2021); Oxford Ethics & Humanities, University of Oxford (2022-23); Abandon Normal Devices, Manchester (2023); and Visiting Fellow in Visual Arts at the International Centre for Mathematical Sciences, Edinburgh (2023-24).
Image by Holly Whittaker.