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Reshaping posthuman subjectivity: Lu Yang's representation of virtual bodies in the COVID-19 pandemic
Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art ; 8(2-3):267-289, 2021.
Article in English | Web of Science | ID: covidwho-1542207
ABSTRACT
With the impact of the COVID-19 outbreak, much of the world has been experiencing isolation and quarantine. Digital technology, especially the internet, has become the essential method of communication when social distancing measures constrain physical contact. The global health crisis leads to a dynamically increasing reliance on digital equipment contributing to a posthuman world. The article will take Shanghai-based multimedia artist Lu Yang (1984-) as a representative example to explore an alternative posthumanism subjectivity in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. Built theoretically on Kathrine Hayles and Rosi Braidotti's posthumanism concepts of virtual bodies, this article will examine how Lu Yang's work articulates the interactive relationships between humans and the material world to go beyond the conservative corporeality and contribute to a renewal of posthuman subjectivity. In Lu Yang's recent projects created during the pandemic, such as Doku x The 1975 'Playing on My Mind' (2020) and the live-streamed piece Delusional World specialIntscript the artist experiments with different strategies to break down social-cultural constraints and transcend established dualisms of gender binaries, life and death, human and non-human. With a close investiga-tion of Lu Yang's multidisciplinary artistic practices, this article intends to argue how a new subjectivity emerges in contemporary Chinese art and its roles in the current COVID-19 pandemic world.

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Full text: Available Collection: Databases of international organizations Database: Web of Science Language: English Journal: Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art Year: 2021 Document Type: Article