Octopus in Drag
Video, Installation
2024
"Octopus in Drag" is a 3D animation featuring a hybrid creature that embodies animality and monstrosity, challenging stereotypes associated with Yellow Peril and Fu Manchu. The creature performs a drag show in a bathroom that gradually collapses. This setting, made from white porcelain—a material traditionally viewed in the West as a pristine Eastern object—transforms into a place of corrupted encounters, transgressions, and transformations. Through its diverse dance movements and dynamic rhythmic changes, the work explores themes of transness, resistance, and Asian (queer) sociality and inscrutability.
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