Class visit – Ming

  • revolution on a personal level? trigger uncomfortable or new feelings through unusual experiences (like Undressing Room)
  • choreographing historic moments
  • use art to subvert the system and tell a different story
  • it’s not about the artist as a person -> artist as a channel, not a gifted/special individual
  • art not about the beauty, but about power (who gets to make/be recognized by making art?)
  • show those in power (e.g. censors) that we’re not afraid
  • privilege of living abroad and being able to safely criticize
  • guiding questions: who is missing? Am I the right person to do this project”

references that he cited

  • Políticas of Touch (Erin Manning)
  • Weak Resistance (James C. Scott)
  • Queer Art of Failure (Halberstamm)
  • Jose Istaban Muñoz
  • Weed Principle
  • “What is white privilege, really?”
  • Mutating Kinship Lab

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