CAMERAS, SCREENS AND REAL SCENES

BY ZHIHAO

IN THE FLESH PERFORMANCE

CURATED BY ANNELIESE CHAREK

2019/10/05

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ABOUT THE ARTIST

Zhihao, performer and theater creator, lives and works in Shanghai. Early creation focused on the relationship between native body perception and the natural environment. It often travels around the country to study traditional dances, ceremonies and contemporary performance culture phenomena, focusing on the aesthetics of cyborg, the deconstruction of contemporary dance and the collage of video symbols. Most of the works derive their concepts from their own experience, integrate the transcendentalism in daily life, and explore the current hypothetical problems.

THE PERFORMANCE

The recording of images has made us more clearly observe the world, and as the images become clearer, our eyes begin to blur, and our world is quietly changing.

The appearance of the gods is accompanied by light, and human beings have never lacked the light. From the natural gods, Christ, and Buddha to Allah, religious culture permeates the daily activities of human beings, and we are all chasing the light. After entering the Internet world, the world seems to be moving toward Datong again. On the Internet, the spread of various types of images and information streams is a large-scale fanatic activity of human beings. The screen is our entrance and exit. We face the screen, face the light, and enter the world of Datong that we yearn for.

The front of the image is presenting our truth, and the opposite is deconstructing our truth. The real image captured our daily life and events, but rather we are living in a false picture of. Recording, filming, we seek to retain everything that happens in reality. But the writing of the data shows that everything can be changed. The camera is a recording medium. The screen is another world.

FROM THE ARTIST

Hemingway once described the art scene in Paris as “a moveable feast”, if we were to rephrase it, we would say that sometimes Shanghai gives us an illusion of “a moveable market”. It’s like all the unprocessed raw materials, semi- manufactured goods that needs optimization, or well designed but terribly tasting packaged foods, it’s exciting, refreshing and diverse. The ones that are great both in quality and appearance, are always expensive but high in demand, which is exactly what the market wants. Anything you can think of or haven’t thought about, you can find it here. However, you don’t always get what you want, one man’s meat is another man’s poison.