OPEN CALL FOR PARTICIPATION
"THE BEST FACIAL"
A SERIES OF PARTICIPATORY TELEMATIC PERFORMANCES
By Ada Xiaoyu Hao (Ph.D. Student, School of Art, University of Brighton)
Previous works: https://adahao.format.com/
Current projects: https://aproductionofmultiplebecomingsofsubjectivities.cargo.site/Desktop
To participate, please click 'HERE' in this link: https://aproductionofmultiplebecomingsofsubjectivities.cargo.site/05-The-Best-Facial
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"The Best Facial" is an internet-situated participatory performance that attempts to seek new sensorimotor gestural channels and perceptual pathways through spatiotemporal encounters online, especially working in concurrency with the Covid-19 pandemic in real-time.
Would the sight of the act of touching awake, in both the performer and the spectator, the memory of the sensory exchange of energy? Can you feel me touching you with your eyes?
As we are adapting to the effusive after-effects of living through the sudden irregularities teased out by the pandemic, how to awake the memory of our tactile sensitivity? Could videoconference become a medium of creation, rather than a medium of translation or dissemination? What informal language can we grasp and learn from improvising with the spatiotemporal aesthetics of videoconferencing communication, such as glitch, audio-visual interval, and latency?
I'm looking for participants to join me for 30 minutes 1-to-1 online Zoom session
During the online participatory session, the participant’s face will embody a heterotopic “skin space”, where I will be using distant touching to visually mark the idea of linkage through virtual reflexology, which accentuates on the exchange of energy. Together, we will discover what we are becoming as human beings while rediscovering the sensitivity and responsiveness that have been lying dormant.
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About Ada Xiaoyu Hao:
I’m an artist-researcher, born in China and currently doing a practice-based Ph.D. in Doctoral School of Art, at the University of Brighton. My practice is situated within performance practice, using role-playing and fiction as methods to trigger and explore the emergence of spatial-temporal ‘heterotopias’ (spatial otherness), in relation to the futurity of human beings under the veil of “becoming multiple”. I’m interested in exploring ways to renew individual subjectivity and to embody a speculative envisaging of what the human body could be or become. During such a diffractive process of becoming, the performance space becomes a virtual site where social attitudes and cultural identities are negotiable. My recent research output includes a digital peer-reviewed visual essay for The International Journal of Creative Media Research’s Digital Ecologies: Fiction Machines (Issue 5) (https://www.creativemediaresearch.org/post/the-noise-of-becoming), digital collaboration with British Art Studies’ Issue 13 (https://www.britishartstudies.ac.uk/issues/issue-index/issue-13/like-a-flower-paddle-my-teeth), and an upcoming peer-reviewed article for the Journal of Contemporary Chinese Art 2021’s Special Issue: ‘The World, Two Meters Away’.
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