New Freedom: You Have to Give Up Everything You Have Gained
2023
Video, Performance at Battersea, London
2mins 4seconds
All Images © Lianjiang Zhu
The premise of digitizing, dissecting, reconstructing, and reintegrating the body is first to accept disassembly. This involves segmenting time, activities, and space into fragments allocated to different body parts, creating a new body that lacks a subject and is not dominated by any singular entity. However, this disjointed, imitative, and synthetic body ultimately cannot be restored to a human form.
A foreigner who has lost their stable state seems to be repeating words but becomes voiceless in their environment.
A foreigner who has lost their stable state seems to be repeating words but becomes voiceless in their environment.