Octopus in Drag 章鱼的假面
Video, Installation
2024
"Octopus in Drag" - an experimental animation. The protagonist is a hybrid monster -- a feline-rat-octopus writhing in a white porcelain bathroom. It tears open the scars of racial and queer identity through a fusion of Voguing and Crip Walk dance moves. As the octopus's flesh flows and morphs, the bathroom slowly collapses, together shattering fixed categories and normative violence. The work plunders Asian historical imagery and drag aesthetics, turning stereotypes back on themselves, injecting toxicity through urine, smoke, and cheap silver glitter. The animation blooms chrysanthemums on the bathroom ruins - not destruction, but toxic rebirth. Finally, binary oppositions corrode and dissolve here, as strange ways of being emerge from the ground.
《章鱼的假面》，一部实验动画。主角是个杂种怪物——猫脸章鱼，在白瓷浴室里扭动。它用Voguing和Crip Walk的混杂舞步，撕开种族与酷儿身份的伤疤。章鱼的肉体在流动变形，浴室在慢慢崩塌，一起粉碎固有分类和规范暴力。
作品掠夺亚洲历史意象和扮装美学，把刻板印象反噬，用尿液、烟雾和劣质银闪片注入毒性。动画在浴室的废墟上开出菊花，不是毁灭，是毒性新生。最后，二元对立在这里腐蚀瓦解，怪异的生存方式破土而出。
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