photo by Dayna Danger, performed by Wing Sze Tsang-Hy, Peter Meritzis; Bodypainting by Yandel; photo of installation review by Hua Jin
Posts Tagged ‘politics’
The Emperor’s New Diaper
Posted in performance art, tagged body, Chinese Culture, family, identity, immigration, marriage, multiculturalism, performance art, politics, red baby diaper on March 30, 2013 |
The Husbands and I–performance+installation
Posted in performance art, tagged body, Chinese Culture, feminism, humanity, husbands, identity politics, immigration, intimacy, love, marriage, performance art, politics, postcolonialism, power, relationship, sexuality, Vancouver, white males on May 27, 2012 |
performance: 50 hours, May 17-June 2, 2012, in The Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery
installation: video, digital prints, curtains, photo albums, bed, side tables, lamps and body
video: Sarah Hudson, Maksim Bentsianov, Karlo Meglarejo, Jerry Tai
photo: Ruth Skinner, Chad Durnford, Denise Gaudreault, Bernie Lee
Rice Performance Series- The Invalid Testimony
Posted in performance art, tagged body, Chinese Culture, feminism, gender, humanity, identity, identity politics, immigration, intimacy, love, minority, performance art, politics, postcolonialism, power, rice, sexuality, Vancouver on June 10, 2011 |
performed at SPREAD openning at Chapel Arts, June 3, 2011
duration: one and half an hour
photo by Chad Durnford
I stand against a white wall in a gallery space. There are two bags of rice with a description on the floor right in front of me. Audiences are encouraged to shoot my naked body with rice outside of yellow tape. This action will be repeated until the rice is gone.
After living inCanada for eight year, I realized that there is urgency for me to renew my lost tradition and culture. In the early 2010, I started to use rice to create a series of performances to explore oppositions as manifestations of fundamental existential concern in Chinese philosophy. “The Invalid Testimony” is the fifth one in the rice performance series. This series is not only a ritual meditation, but also an opening conversation, examining relationships between me and the place I live, between what I have lost and what I have gained as a racial minority. However, in “The Invalid Testimony,” I turn the ritual to a battle. The rice that has nurtured me in my whole life becomes a weapon to against myself. It seems that the only way I regain what I have lost is through surrender.
After Olympia
Posted in performance art, tagged aesthetics, body, clinic detachment, feminism, humanity, intimacy, love, marriage, medical body, performance art, politics, postcolonialism, power, relationship, sexuality, Vancouver, white males on February 22, 2011 |
photo by Hua Jin
duration: three hours
I ask my performance partner lying on a medical bed and use my tip tongue touching his whole body inch by inch.
Looking for a White Husband
Posted in performance art, tagged Chinese Culture, Chinese dress, experimental film, feminism, gender, humanity, identity, immigration, intimacy, love, minority, performance art, politics, power, relationship, sexuality, Vancouver, white males on January 8, 2011 |
I am an exotic, compliant and artistic
Asian girl, looking for A WHITE HUSBAND
who would like to take me to his home
and live with him for a day as his mail order bride.
if you think it would be an interesting experience,
please contact me at
artistintheworld@hotmail.com
photo by Bernie Lee
The Husbands I Have Lived for A Day
Posted in performance art, tagged Chinese Culture, Chinese dress, experimental film, feminism, gender, humanity, husband, husbands, identity, immigration, intimacy, love, marriage, minority, performance art, politics, relationship, sexuality, white males on October 26, 2010 |
Sanford (Biff) Bartlett, December 19, 2010
Jeff Ferguson, March 11, 2011
Michael Barry Anderson, January 13, 2011
Toni Latour, November 7, 2010 
Ruben Castelanco, October 10, 2010 
Stephen DesRoches, October 23, 2010 
Gordon Scott, November 20, 2010
Brendan, Feburary 27, 2011
Charles K., March 6, 2011
Gary .D, December 5, 2010
video is available upon request
video by Sarah Hudson, Maksim Bentsianov, Karlo Melgarejo, Jerry Tai
Will You Marry Me?
Posted in performance art, tagged culture, feminism, gender, humanity, husbands, identity, immigration, intimacy, marriage, minority, multiculturalism, performance art, politics, relationship, sexuality, Vancouver, white males on September 11, 2010 |
Visualieyez 2010 Performance Festival, Jubilee Audition, Edmonton, Alberta. september 18, 2010. video by Heather Challoner.
I approach a man with a rose, asking him if I can ask him a question. If he agrees, I say “will you marry me?” right in front of his ear with very soft tone. After he says yes, I pin the rose on his chest, and offer myself to him for two minutes.
At Jubilee Audition in Edmonton on September 18th, 2010, I proposed to twenty-eight men in three hours. Three men rejected me; eight men accepted my proposal immediately; the rest of them were ultimately convinced after a longer or shorter explanation.
The Husbands and I- part I (2010)
Posted in performance art, tagged Chinese Culture, Chinese dress, feminism, gender, humanity, husbands, identity, immigration, interactive technology, intimacy, love, marriage, minority, multiculturalism, performance art, politics, power, relationship, sexuality, Vancouver, white males on June 25, 2010 |
photo by Ruth Skinner
from a 352 husband collection
I wear my Chinese traditional dress, walking on streets and asking white males to have photo taken with me by suggesting them to act as my husband– to explore intimacy between two strangers in public space. immigrated to Canada couple of years ago, and i regard the whole process of immigration as a marriage, and myself like a mail order bride. I married Canada, suddenly transforming myself from a Chinese to a Canadian or a Chinese Canada. My identity is not constructed by Canadian history, culture or its landscape, but the white males who are around me.
The physical encounter between me and the white males actually is an ideological confrontation between me and the Western social and political landscape that I feel I don’t belong to. By exploring intimacy with them, I try to not only reconfigure the established centered power that the privileged white males embody, but also question whether the culturally interpreted Chinese female body, both as a foreign subject and object, can be invested and exploited.
Rice Performance Series–Arrival
Posted in performance art, tagged Chinese Culture, Chinese philosophy, culture, identity, immigration, minority, multiculturalism, performance art, politics, rice, Vancouver, Ying and Yang on May 21, 2010 |
it was performed at Slivers, Shivers, and Snake Skin- A Happening,Chapel Arts 2010
I fill a bamboo basket with white and black rice, so there is white rice on the left, black rice on the right. I sit on a bamboo mat, grapping rice and tossing it to audiences whild reciting an ancient Chinese poem.
Rice Performance Series–It Is the Way of Being
Posted in performance art, tagged anti-racism, Chinese Culture, culture, humanity, identity, immigration, minority, multiculturalism, performance art, politics, postcolonialism, power, rice, Ying and Yang on May 21, 2010 |
photo and video by James Zhang
performed at PAct 4: Trade opening at Vancouver International Centre for contemporary Asian Art and Pacific Cinematheque, 2010
I demonstrate a process of selecting rice. I use a sieve to screen out the small ones, picke out those imperfections, and keep the regular ones that fit perfectly.
