Counterpolis is a 120-second visual and sonic commentary focused on the urban forces that shape the 21st century city. It was designed for the International Commerce Center (ICC), the largest LED display surface in Asia. The work was commissioned for a international competition between ISEA 2016 and the OpenSkyGallery, curated by Maurice Benayoun. It won an honourable mention and was exhibited in the latter part of 2016.

While staging a countdown of the piece itself as fused into the surfaces of the ICC, Counterpolis explores the relationship between image and object. In doing so, an exchange of play, movement, stillness, fluidity and friction builds into a sonic-visual frenzy embodying the new urban norm. This regime of animated people, spaces and objects seems to run on its own logic. Yet, as our bodies navigate the global city, the order that frames this industrious ecology is time; an order that clocks by the second the flows of the metropolis and the longevity of all things.