“NIGHT SCHOOL NY INSIGHT” Vol. 49
Double Dialogue in Experimental Theatre：
The Shape of the Skin & Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow
Lecture: Li zhiyang，Wei Mingyi，Gan Zhipeng
Host：Jody Huang
Dec 14th, 2024 (Thu)
The Shape of the Skin｜Experimental Theater 2024, Li Zhiyang & Wei Mingyi, Art Cube
Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow｜Experimental Theater 2024, Dai Zhouke & Gan Zhipeng & Yang Xi, Hongyin Art Center
Wei Mingyi
The works are based on performance, video, and live art, and are created based on identity, exploring family intergenerational trauma through personal experience, and attempting to find a way out of the structural imbalance between the collective and the individual, and the lack of identity discourse and relationship. At the same time, she intervenes and pays attention to women’s issues and the existence of marginalized groups in the society in her personal way.
「Panties on the Road」 performance video 4’56‘’, hammer, industrial nail, menstrual blood panties, 2023, Chengdu
「A Cry from Under the Boxing Rack」 Performance site , Thai native woman, mirror, whistle, hanger, clothes, 2024, Thailand
「The Lift」 Performance Video 5’16” 2024, Chengdu
Li Zhiyang
The work focuses on fictional scenes in daily life, searching for the frequency of agitation in the symbiotic network of living and non-living things, trying to amplify its own perception to connect with the “living” existence of the world. “Real Time” triggers the reality of experience in the space, structuring the whole, the group as the origin and then the disappearance of the individual back to the biological genealogy of all things. Through performance video, easel painting, installation, experimental theater and other visual methods, we continue to explore the eternal gaze in the extension of time.
“When do ants take off”, experimental image 5’55‘’ 2024
“Gradually Stirring Waves”, ants, acrylic, light blue gel (ants available), surveillance camera, projector, sound , dimensions variable 2024
“Liquid Panorama” sculpture, photography, silicone, color powder 5m*1.2m (variable) 2024
Gan Zhipeng
Born in September 1996 in Pingliang, Gansu Province, he graduated from the Sichuan Fine Arts Institute in June 2023 with a master’s degree and now lives and works in Chengdu, Sichuan Province. His works involve painting, performance, theater, performance, video and other creative methods. His works focus on the contradictory relationship between the inner world and reality, the situation and survival state of individual spirit in the plight of reality, as well as the powerlessness, absurdity and drama in the context of the individual and reality, trying to complete a kind of “uncertain value” extension in this “ marginal gap” extension.
March in Time and Space, Performance Image, 3’42”, Chongqing, 2024
Starfire, behavioral video, 5’54”, Chongqing, 2023
Balance, Behavioral Imaging, 5’27”, Chongqing, 2022
