Ei Arakawa-Nash Plush Subjectivity | Art and Exhibition in The Mills HK

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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

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

Artists:

Ei Arakawa-Nash

Collaborators:
(Hong Kong)
Kenny X. Li
Nakayama Izumi
Sara Tse

(Los Angeles)
Anna Sew Hoy
Won Ju Lim
Shirley Tse
Amy Yao

Moderator:
Takahashi Mizuki

Date:

30.03.2024

Time:

4:30-6:00pm

Venue:

The D. H. Chen Foundation Gallery

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