Octopus in Drag 扮装章鱼
Video, Installation
2024
"Octopus in Drag" is an experimental animation centering on a hybrid creature - a feline-looking octopus performing in a white porcelain bathroom. Through dance movements combining voguing and crip walk, accompanied by sounds collected from Chinatown, the piece explores themes of racial and queer identity. The octopus's fluid transformations and the bathroom's gradual collapse challenge fixed categories and normative structures.
Drawing from historical Asian representations and drag aesthetics, the work reclaims stereotypical imagery while incorporating elements of toxicity through urine, smoke, and silver tinsels. The animation culminates in the bathroom's destruction and unexpected chrysanthemum blooming, suggesting transformation and renewal rather than mere devastation. The piece ultimately envisions a space where binary categories dissolve and new forms of being become possible.
《扮装章鱼》是一部实验动画，聚焦于一个混杂生物——一只长着猫科特征的章鱼在白瓷浴室中表演。通过融合voguing舞步和瘸行步伐的舞蹈动作，伴随着从唐人街收集的声音，这件作品探索了种族与酷儿身份的主题。章鱼流动的变形和浴室的渐次崩塌，挑战着固定的分类和规范性结构。
作品汲取历史上的亚洲再现和扮装美学，在重新占有刻板印象意象的同时，通过尿液、烟雾和银色金属丝带融入毒性元素。动画最终以浴室的毁坏和意外绽放的菊花为高潮，暗示着转化与更新，而非单纯的破坏。这件作品最终展望了一个二元分类消解、新的存在形式得以可能的空间。
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