Octopus in Drag 扮装章鱼
Video / Installation
2024
“Octopus in Drag” is an experimental animation featuring a hybrid monster—a feline-rat-octopus that writhes within a white porcelain bathroom. Through a fusion of Voguing and Crip Walk dance movements, the creature tears open the scars of racial and queer identity.
As the octopus’s flesh flows and transforms, the bathroom gradually collapses, together shattering fixed categories and normative violence. The work appropriates Asian historical imagery and drag aesthetics, turning stereotypes back upon themselves while injecting toxicity through elements of urine, smoke, and cheap silver glitter.
The animation cultivates chrysanthemums blooming from the bathroom ruins—representing not destruction but toxic rebirth. Ultimately, binary oppositions corrode and dissolve, allowing strange new modes of existence to emerge from the ground.
《扮装章鱼》是一部实验动画，主角是一个混合怪物——一只在白瓷浴室中扭动的猫鼠章鱼。通过融合Voguing和Crip Walk舞步，这个生物撕开了种族与酷儿身份的伤疤。
随着章鱼肉体的流动变形，浴室逐渐崩塌，共同粉碎固有分类和规范暴力。作品借用亚洲历史意象和扮装美学，让刻板印象反噬自身，同时通过尿液、烟雾和劣质银闪片注入毒性元素。
动画在浴室废墟上培育盛开的菊花——象征的不是毁灭，而是毒性新生。最终，二元对立在此腐蚀瓦解，使奇异的新存在方式得以破土而出。
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