Octopus in Drag 扮装章鱼
Video / Installation
2024
Octopus in Drag is an experimental animation featuring a hybrid creature—a feline-rat-octopus writhing within a pristine white porcelain bathroom. Fusing elements of Voguing and Crip Walk, the creature doesn’t dance to perform—it dances to rupture. Scars of racialization and queer survival split open, leaking form, history, and flesh.
As the octopus mutates, the tiled bathroom implodes. Bodies and architecture collapse in sync, tearing through the boundaries of taxonomy and normativity. Drag aesthetics and Asian historical iconography are appropriated and perverted—used not to celebrate but to contaminate. Urine, smoke, and cheap silver glitter seep through the cracks, injecting a toxic femininity that bites back.
From the bathroom ruins, chrysanthemums bloom—not as symbols of purity, but as spores of mutant rebirth. What emerges is not catharsis, but corrosion. In Octopus in Drag, binaries don’t reconcile—they rot. And in their decomposition, something feral begins to flower.
《扮装章鱼》是一部实验动画，主角是一个混合物种——猫、鼠与章鱼共构的异体，在白瓷浴室中扭动变形。它融合Voguing与Crip Walk的动作语言，不是为了表演，而是为了撕裂。种族与酷儿身份留下的疤痕在舞动中裂开，流出形体、历史与肉身的残响。
随着章鱼肉体的不断变异，浴室空间同步崩塌。身体与建筑一起崩解，冲破分类体系与规范逻辑。作品借用亚洲历史意象与扮装美学，不是为了致敬，而是为了污染。尿液、烟雾与劣质银闪片从缝隙渗出，注入一种回击式的毒性阴柔。
浴室的废墟中，菊花盛开——不再象征纯净，而是变异再生的孢子。这不是洗涤，而是腐蚀。在《扮装章鱼》中，二元对立不会和解，它们腐烂。而在腐烂中，一种野性的存在方式悄然破土而出。
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