2024
Performance and Installation
(collaboration with shibari artist Alison Chen, and multi-media artist Saki)
part of ‘Future of Belongings,’Speiro Projects, London
Performance and Installation
(collaboration with shibari artist Alison Chen, and multi-media artist Saki)
part of ‘Future of Belongings,’Speiro Projects, London
This theatrical installation dissects East Asian femininity's consciousness entrapment. Performers wear anonymity-effacing masks, embodying the Freudian "Id" and "Superego" in their struggle within patriarchal syntax's invisible cage. Flesh-like ropes extend from limbs as both spiritual umbilical cords and execution nooses, while metal frameworks fossilize topological forms of societal discipline. Monologues oscillate between biotextiles and rigid structures, as the stage's eroding earthen terrain metaphorizes systemic erosion of primal nature. This corporeal battle against constraints manifests consciousness decolonization's entrapment and potential—a performative paradox where resistance simultaneously reveals and destabilizes inherited psychic architectures.
