Sunday, June 30 2024
4pm
(Video-)Performance
Hairpin Beneath is a performance that emerged from a joint research project by Zishi Han and Wei Yang on historical Chinese queer literature.
The performance approaches LGBTQIA+ communities living in China and the Chinese diaspora, interweaving the wealth of their different experiences and stories.
The starting point for Hairpin Beneath is the collection of homoerotic stories from the Ming Dynasty 弁而釵 (Biàn ér chāi). The performance draws from the work, interprets it freely and combines it with historical and modern Chinese cultural practices such as poetry, Chinese opera and C-pop. The interplay of live performance and pre-recorded material blurs the line between fiction and biography. The performance fundamentally plays with the equation of love (情 qíng) and lust (欲 yù), as no linguistic distinction is made in the referenced work.
Based on literary and personal narratives, the artists explore the connection between collective experience and individual agency.
About the Artists
Zishi Han (he|him) was born 1990 born in Beijing (CHN) and currently lives and works in Frankfurt am Main (DE). He is studying at Städelschule (DE) and Royal College of Art in London (GB). Zishi Han's practice encompasses many media, with a focus on installation. His works are characterized by the exploration of cross-cultural figures, artifacts, and events. Most recently, his works were on show at the saasfee*pavillon in Frankfurt am Main (DE), at Pols (ESP) and at the Delfina Foundation (GB).
Wei Yang (he|him) was born 1994 in Liuzhou (CHN), lives and works in Frankfurt am Main (DE). He researches how people live and interact in diasporic communities, looking at how their identity and experiences as they are influenced by their geographical distribution and movement. In his works, Wei Yang layers collective memories into images of myths, history and personal landscapes. Wei Yang addresses gender politics, the West's blurred view of decolonisation and how our current reality is narrated in the process. Most recently, his works were on show at Memphis (AUT), Pols (ENG) and West Den Haag (NL).
Antone Liu (he|him) was born in 1999 in Anshan (CHN) and lives and works in Frankfurt am Main (DE) and Shanghai (CHN). Through the performance of the surface, Liu’s practice tickles the precariousness and major shifts in their perception of humanity.
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at Sommerbad Humboldthain
Wiesenstraße 1, 13357 Berlin
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10.00 am – 6.00 pm