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    October 2, 2013 | Posted By: | Brushing Jade · infraction 9 · Live Performance · News |

    Jade Buddha

    Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden,Yau Wen and Kovács István

    3 hours, 13 . 09 . 2013 @ Sète, outdoor flea market

    During Cultural Revolution red guards cut off Buddha heads from the temple to destroy the tradition, religion and history. My father’s antique passion is collecting jade and Buddha head. Bankrupted and lonely, he brushes his jade days and night. Outdoor flea market, where people are looking for things used, interesting and cheap.

    A place for a lost buddha.

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    Sete Warrior

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    October 1, 2013 | Posted By: | blog: film link · infraction 9 · Live Performance · News |

    Sete Warrior Live Performance

    Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden and Yau Wen

    3 Hours Lipsticks, sete traditional water jousting shield and jousting pole, white French girl’s outfit @Sete, Infr’action,14.09.2013 My uncle used to call me the Don Quixote. I was excited to discover the famous sport in Sete: Water Jousting and noticed it’s a game for boys only. I covered my body with red lipsticks to create an image of a very feminine modern water jousting warrior. During the three hours performance I began unexpectedly crying.

     

     

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    Chinese Zezette

    September 30, 2013 | Posted By: | infraction 9 · Live Performance · News |

    Chinese Zezette

    Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden,Yau Wen and Kovács István

    3 hours, 13 . 09 . 2013 @ Sète, outdoor market

    ZeZette (traditional cookie from Sète,France) I ate the first fortune cookie when I arrived in London. It’s a Chinese symbol created by American consumerism but not popular in Mainland China. Shaped like the folded version of local cookie zezettes. I plan to invite audience to think, interact and make me as a Chinese zezettes. I set inside a box cover and decorated like a table. Only head is visible. Covered with note that reference the words people found in Chinese fortune cookies. Baking ingredients for Zezettes are places on the table labelled with different meanings. Audiences are invited to cover my head with:

    flour(Culture Heritage) wine (Westernisation), baking powder(Communism education),milk(Consumerism)

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    Chicken Soup

    September 23, 2013 | Posted By: | infraction 9 · Live Performance · News |

    Chicken Soup Live Performance

    30 min, Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden, Joachim Axelsson and Yau Wen

    Live chicken, tent, soup, knife, and 10 min film projection @Sete, Infr’action12.09.2013

    My mum was born at the Chinese year of rooster, she has a scar like the shape of a rooster. She always describes herself as the elegant proud animal. Born in 1957, her childhood was during The Three Years of Great Chinese Famine. In her memory, killing and eating a rooster was a family celebration, a joyful experience that only comes once a year and often shared by the whole street. Invited by me, my mum killed, de-feathered, de-gutted, cooked and finally ate a rooster. Recorded from my mobile phone through Chinese social media, this footage was projected in the background. In contrast I was holding and comforting a live chicken, later audiences were invited to drink chicken soup with me.

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    Taped morning exercise

    September 20, 2013 | Posted By: | infraction 9 · Live Performance · News |

    Taped morning exercise

    Photography by Roland-von-der-Emden, Vincent Campos and Bjorn Veno

    2 hours, 11 . 09 . 2013 @ Sète, outdoor market

    Be persistent in training! Strengthen our bodies! Study diligently! Serve our motherland!

    Radio gymnastic exercise (Guangbo Ticao ????) is part of the school curriculum in most primary (age 6-11) and secondary (age 12-17) schools in China. Every morning at 6:10am. As a communist child I was a monitor since the age of 4. One of my daily duties was lend the morning exercise. In this performance follow the Chinese Radio gymnastic exercise music. I will begin to practice morning exercise, during Two-hour session, I gradually wrap brown tapes around my body until I can’t move.

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