Why? ...And Because: Master of Communication Design exhibition
15 Oct 2026 - 31 Oct 2026
Melbourne City
For this project, the making of kinetic jewellery objects is featured as key to narrate and re-narrate time’s passages, functioning as a form of time machine.
While the resulting works manifested as tangible objects— a kinetic robot or pieces of jewellery— their journeys involve an interplay of fiction, creating time-bending narrative of something nostalgic, but also invites imaginative/ speculative visions of the future.
YIN-YU (INGRID) TSENG is a Melbourne based maker who works mainly with metal. A principle theme in her work is the temporality of time, and she is also interested in the capacity of tactile experience in engagement with object to trigger imaginative response. She expresses both these elements by the use of basic gear mechanisms and movement. Ingrid is a RMIT PhD candidate, and current RMIT University staff member.
This display is presented as part of Radiant Pavilion 2026 | Naarm / Melbourne Contemporary Jewellery and Object Biennial.
24 October – 1 November 2026, 24 hours a day.
RMIT Design Archives Gallery Window
154 Victoria Street, Carlton
Banner image credit:
Yin-Yu Tseng, Metamorphsis series, 2025, stainless steel, wind-up mechanism, titanium,
silver, brass, rubber, 110 x 180 x 30 — 170 x 130 x 30 mm, Michael Quinlan
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
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