Octopus in Drag 扮装章鱼
Video / Installation
2024
Octopus in Drag is an experimental animation centered on a hybrid creature—a feline-rat-octopus writhing inside a white porcelain bathroom. The setting is not neutral: the tiled surface, cold and pristine, becomes an antagonist. Its clinical sterility imposes a regime of cleanliness, containment, and normativity. Against it, the creature leaks, spasms, and mutates—its flesh refusing containment, its gestures borrowed from voguing and Crip Walk, movements not for display but for breach.
This confrontation intensifies as the creature’s form splinters. The bathroom’s grid cracks. Bodies and walls collapse in sync. The logic of hygiene is violated—urine seeps, glitter contaminates, smoke curls into corners once meant for purity. Asian visual motifs—once ornamental—are dragged into decay, corrupted rather than framed.
From this detritus, chrysanthemums bloom—not as sacred symbols, but as spores of toxic rebirth. The work does not seek restoration. Its climax is rot: the collapse of binary orders, the slow birth of something uncontained and illegible. In this space, monstrosity is not punished—it is allowed to flower.
《扮装章鱼》是一部实验性动画，聚焦于一个混合生物——一只在白瓷浴室内扭动的猫鼠章鱼混合体。这个场景并非中性的：瓷砖表面，冰冷而纯净，成为了一个对立面。它的临床般的洁净强加了一种清洁、束缚和常规的秩序。与之对抗，这个生物渗漏、抽搐和变异——它的肉体拒绝被束缚，它的动作借鉴了voguing舞和Crip Walk舞步，这些动作不是为了展示，而是为了击破。
这种对抗随着生物形态的分裂而加剧。浴室的网格开裂了。身体和墙壁同步崩塌。卫生的逻辑被违反——尿液渗出，亮粉污染，烟雾盘旋在曾经象征纯净的角落。亚洲视觉元素——曾经只是装饰性的——被拖入腐烂，被破坏而非被框定。
从这些碎屑中，菊花绽放——不是作为神圣的象征，而是有毒重生的孢子。这部作品并不寻求修复。它的高潮是腐朽：二元秩序的崩溃，某种不受约束且难以辨识之物的缓慢诞生。在这个空间里，怪异不被惩罚——而是被允许盛开。
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