CO2RE Artists: Yambe Tam
The Rite of Ten Winds
“The Rite of 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 was publicly exhibited in spring/summer 2026 at Broadway Gallery, Nottingham and Bloc Projects, Sheffield.
Images: Selection of images from the development of The Rite of the Ten Winds, credits: Yambe Tam
Reclaiming Hope, Removing Carbon
Yambe Tam’s The Rite of Ten Winds was exhibited as part of Reclaiming Hope, Removing Carbon at the Bristol Botanic Gardens in June 2026.
Located within the Chinese Herb Garden, the installation, was held beneath a pagoda, where flowing voile hangings, printed with images from the VR work, guided you towards a video version of the work, blending the physical and virtual.
Seating in the space took the form of soft, woollen “boulders,” inviting visitors to sit, rest and spend time with the installation.
The Rite of Ten Winds suggests responding to climate change is not only a technical challenge, but also a cultural and emotional one – requiring new ways of thinking, feeling and acting.
Images by 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.