Still image: Ei Arakawa-Nash, Plush Subjectivity (Tokyo), Yebisu International Festival for Art & Alternative Visions 2024: 30 Ways to Go to the Moon
Image courtesy of Tokyo Photographic Art Museum, Photo: ARAI Takaaki
Testing12 – Plush Subjectivity and Post-Performance Talk
Free Admission｜Walk-in
Plush Subjectivity is a scenario co-created by artist Ei Arakawa-Nash, his Asian colleagues based in Los Angeles and new acquaintances in Hong Kong.
Referencing American artist Mike Kelley’s sculptural work Deodorized Central Mass with Satellites (1991/1999), Arakawa-Nash and his collaborators operate a ball covered with plush dolls to question the subjectivity of Asians, especially the Asian diaspora whose identities are suspended between Asian and non-Asian countries. Do Asians look childlike, innocent and cute? Do they mask violence and aggressiveness with soft appearances like those of plush toys?
4:30-5:30pm Performance
5:30-6:00pm Post-Performance Talk
Language: English
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