Life itself is a performance. I consider performance an attitude rather than a medium, anideology rather than a style, a situation rather than an action. As part of my interest in identity politics and postmodern feminism, I utilize my own body as a disturbance or intervention in order to explore ruptures in society. I do not attempt to reclaim my female body from masculine objectification and the gaze, nor dismiss its potential to arouse desire and fantasy. On the contrary, I expose my vulnerable Asian body within the western context and let it become an object to be gazed at and closely examined. The body only functions as a disturbance that might arouse desires, but not a real object to be physical possessed and controlled.
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