Performance




Right of speech
09.2022
Video, performance
Collaboration with Yiru Chen


https://youtu.be/Y3LaTK1ExWQ



This performance art that allows women to emulate masculinity by wearing items. Thought the way of transferring the gendered language represented by the object, the woman gradually becomes a fictional symbol of success in the performance process. As Mary Beard argues in her book Women and Power, all of these techniques and tactics tend to make women feel like they are still outsiders, posing as rhetorical roles that do not belongs to them. To put it more bluntly, having women pretend to be men to share male power may be a quick fix, but it doesn't get to the heart of the problem. This tragic ending was doomed from the start.









Mark