JADE BABY BAMBOO SPINE

JADE BABY BAMBOO SPINE

JADE BABY BAMBOO SPINE, a film work examining themes of surrender, violence, pleasure and power. “JADE BABY BAMBOO SPINE” is an experimental ritual of sacrifice. It begins as a speculative leap that imagines a world where death practices from multiple geohistories (Korea, Taiwan, Tibet, Cornwall, and England) touch to bring transformations and frictions in ecological kinships and the concept of fate. With reference to Keguro Macharia’s work on the active role of desire in political imagination and political action, the desire to find belonging to and for Land functions “not simply as a sensation produced by colonial modernity, but as something that rubs along and against the constraints produced by colonial modernity.” The work was made in collaboration with Soojin Chang, Jade O’Belle, Aditya Surya Taruna a.k.a. Kasimyn, and Georgie Rei-n Lo.

Video and sound 16 min, 2022.

Commissioned by the Bluecoat as a part of the exhibition breathe, spirit and life curated by Kartherine Ka Yi Liu.

Artist: Soojin Chang

Costume design, DOP: Jade O’belle

Made in collaboration with Choulay Mech, Aditya Surya Taruna a.k.a Kasimyn and Georgie Rei-n

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