Zishi Han & Wei Yang mit Antone Liu: Hairpin Beneath, 2024
In the organizer's words:
Sunday, 30.6.2024
16:00 (duration approx. 30 minutes)
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 draws on the (diverse) experiences of the LGBTQIA+ communities living both in China and in the Chinese diaspora. The wealth of their different experiences and stories are woven together.
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 work.
The artists explore the connection between collective experience (or collective intelligence) and individual agency, based on literary references and personal narratives.
Price information:
Entry is by admission to the Humboldthain summer pool
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