Let’s sit together and drink some tea, have a talk about our names and the stories related to it……the difficulty of pronunciation, the meaning of the name that nobody knows, different names in different languages, nick name, web name, fake name, name as a gift and name as a burden, name you find beautiful, name you want to forget, name of a place, name of a tree, how you lose a name and how you have a new name……to name is to identify; to be named is to have the identity.
Cette rencontre aura lieu en anglais, mais une traduction autogérée en français est possible si nécessaire.
zhaoyuefan’s artistic practice revolves around her experience of living as a legal alien in western countries (« why am I here »). Through video/sound installation, performance, writing and publishing, she interferes with daily life situations, de-/reconstructs existing objects and found images, digging into their contexts, uses lightness to touch on the visible and invisible boundaries shaped by language, culture, identities and collective memories. Her works are a series of translations, transformations and transpositions based on the transcultural context, leading to reflections on the cultural hegemony. In addition to her own practice, she is also one of the initiators of the art collective Mahjong Friends.
