Octopus in Drag
2024
Multimedia installation
Digital animation, video display, sculptural objects, reflective ceramic tiles, light
9 min 42 sec, loop · Variable dimensions
Multimedia installation
Digital animation, video display, sculptural objects, reflective ceramic tiles, light
9 min 42 sec, loop · Variable dimensions
EXHIBITED AT:
CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media & WORM, Rotterdam, 2024
Longings, SIGN, Groningen, 2025
CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, CURRENTLY, V2_Institute for the Unstable Media & WORM, Rotterdam, 2024
Longings, SIGN, Groningen, 2025
Octopus in Drag centers on a cat–rat–octopus hybrid moving through
a sterile white-tiled bathroom. Its leaking, spasming body borrows
gestures from voguing and the Crip Walk, bringing movement histories
shaped by resistance into a space organized around cleanliness,
containment, and control.
As the work unfolds, the creature splinters and the bathroom grid begins to fracture. Urine spreads across porcelain. Silver tinsel gathers on the floor. Smoke enters the corners. Chrysanthemums emerge from debris.
Body and architecture become increasingly difficult to separate.
Rather than stabilizing these materials as cultural symbols, the work lets them rot, contaminate, and mutate. The creature is not repaired or disciplined. It survives by becoming less legible.
As the work unfolds, the creature splinters and the bathroom grid begins to fracture. Urine spreads across porcelain. Silver tinsel gathers on the floor. Smoke enters the corners. Chrysanthemums emerge from debris.
Body and architecture become increasingly difficult to separate.
Rather than stabilizing these materials as cultural symbols, the work lets them rot, contaminate, and mutate. The creature is not repaired or disciplined. It survives by becoming less legible.
→ 中文
《变装章鱼》影片围绕一只猫—鼠—章鱼杂交生物展开，它穿行于一间无菌的白色瓷砖浴室。
它那漏液、抽搐的身体，借用了Voguing与Crip Walk的姿态，将源于反抗的运动史带入一个围绕洁净、封闭与控制而组织起来的空间之中。
随着影片展开，这头生物开始裂解，浴室的网格也随之破碎。尿液漫过瓷面，银色亮片散落一地，烟雾渗入角落，菊花从残骸中生长而出。
身体与建筑逐渐难以分离。
作品并不将这些材料固化为文化符号，而是任由它们腐烂、污染、变异。这头生物没有被修复，也没有被规训。它以变得愈发难以辨识的方式，存活下来。
随着影片展开，这头生物开始裂解，浴室的网格也随之破碎。尿液漫过瓷面，银色亮片散落一地，烟雾渗入角落，菊花从残骸中生长而出。
身体与建筑逐渐难以分离。
作品并不将这些材料固化为文化符号，而是任由它们腐烂、污染、变异。这头生物没有被修复，也没有被规训。它以变得愈发难以辨识的方式，存活下来。