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
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.
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
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
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.
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.
Posted in performance art, tagged aesthetics, Chinese Culture, language, performance art, power, relationship, rice, translation, white males on June 7, 2010 |
photo by James Zhang
four hours at Western Front Gallery
I set a table and two chairs in a gallery space. I sit on a chair, and a male mannequin in front of me. There is a big bowl of cooked rice on the table, I use a spoon to scoop rice, put it into my month, and slowly chew it until it becomes soft and warm. And then I carefully transfer the rice from my month to the spoon, and feed it to the male mannequin’s mouth. This process is continually repeated until the rice on the bowl is thoroughly transferred.
This performance refers that the sense of authenticity, integrity and beauty of resource language get lost in translation. In fact, the process of translation is like chewing up rice and feeding it to people. In performance, what I feed to the mannequin is still rice. However, this transformed rice has already lost its flavor and nutrition. It is the same in translation, clarity and fluency of source text might still be kept in a target text. However, the source text and the target text can never be the same because fidelity in translation is the root which tranlators strive to approach but it can never truly be reached.
