In response to recent posts: We feel the anxieties in HK not so much of rising right-wing fascism, but of encroachment of freedoms of an anarcho capitalist socialist dictatorship i.e. China. There is no and has never been real democracy. We must enter into hell / afterlife (in the Buddhist sense) in order to find transcendence.
Perhaps this could be a submission for the Performance in a Pandemic CFP? **sorry for the cross-posting** Dear friends and colleagues, We’d like to invite you to join Lu Yang’s live virtual motion-capture performance Delusional World presented in collaboration with MetaObjects on Wed 11 Nov 2020 at 3pm Shanghai / 6pm Melbourne time (7am GMT / 11pm PST 10 Nov). The performance will be live-streamed from Chronus Art Center in Shanghai and presented by ACMI, Arts Centre Melbourne, AsiaTOPA and the Exhibitionist. The online event was developed as a result of a cancelled live performance this year in Federation Square, Melbourne. The performance was then re-developed as a virtual live-streamed event in collaboration with Chronus Art Center. In the performance, a live dancer’s movements will be mapped to new animated deities and disembodied forms of Lu Yang alongside a choreography of visual effects and music taking place in 'hell'. Audiences can view the performance online through a link sent to registered attendees, who will be able to interact with the artist during the event. MetaObjects has been supporting the production remotely from Hong Kong (watch a video interview <https://hkgarden.scm.cityu.edu.hk/2020/08/media-art-practitioner-ashley-wong/> where we discuss some of the challenges and opportunities of working online). The work extends Lu Yang’s ongoing exploration of how the body, the digital and the spiritual coexist and shape one another. Through dance, motion-capture and animation, the artist creates vibrant and engrossing performative worlds which reference video games, religious iconographies, and manga aesthetics. Through these worlds, she asks expansive questions; about life, death and reincarnation, relationships between mind and body, consciousness and existence, neurological control and human intention, and about identity formation and corporeal re-embodiment in the virtual realm. The event is free to join. Register on the ACMI website: https://www.acmi.net.au/whats-on/gallery-5/lu-yang-delusional-world Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/713594806232138 About Lu Yang is a Shanghai-based artist who works across video, installation, animation, performance, motion-capture and games to create provocative experiences that questions the belief that human control is privileged within the universe. Instead, she highlights the biological and material determinants of our condition, reminding us of our transient and fragile existence. Lu Yang graduated with a BA and MA from the New Media Art department of the China Academy of Art, Hangzhou. Her work has been featured in exhibitions internationally including Lu Yang: Encephalon Heaven, M WOODS, Beijing (2017), People’s Republic of China Pavilion, 56th Venice Biennale, Venice (2015), KIMO KAWA CANCER BABY, Rén Space, Shanghai (2014). She was awarded the BMW Art Journey prize in 2019 and is represented by Société in Berlin. http://luyang.asia We hope you will join us for this special event! Ashley -- Ashley Lee Wong 黄詠欣 PhD Researcher | School of Creative Media, City University of Hong Kong Artistic Director | MetaObjects 元物 | www.metaobjects.org IG <https://www.instagram.com/metaobjects/> | FB <https://www.facebook.com/metaobjects.org> | TW <https://twitter.com/metaobjectsorg>
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