Suspicious Stain
Suspicious Stain traces the bodily history of living as a woman in China while in a constant diasporic state of flight from one’s suspect identity.
The identity of a Chinese, a woman, a blood package, a cost of rapid economic development, a piece of ‘huminerals’ (human minerals), a patch for patriarchal society, or a colonial fantasy.
The performance opens a space for discussion on the embodiment of shame, fear, embarrassment, and complex traumatic experiences carried by discrete Chinese women. It deals with the entanglements of internalised surveillance, bodily colonisation and extractive capitalism that parasitise the female body in a post-colonial situation.
This performance is part of Qiong Zhang’s doctoral research ‘Tracing Ghost Hallucinations in a World of Technological Surveillance’.
Working group
- Director: Qiong Zhang
- Performers: Christy Ma (MA in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research), Jing Xie (guest), Xiaole Wang (MA in Live Art and Performance Studies), Yumo Cheng (guest)
- Sound designer: Johanna Sulalampi
The identity of a Chinese, a woman, a blood package, a cost of rapid economic development, a piece of ‘huminerals’ (human minerals), a patch for patriarchal society, or a colonial fantasy.
The performance opens a space for discussion on the embodiment of shame, fear, embarrassment, and complex traumatic experiences carried by discrete Chinese women. It deals with the entanglements of internalised surveillance, bodily colonisation and extractive capitalism that parasitise the female body in a post-colonial situation.
This performance is part of Qiong Zhang’s doctoral research ‘Tracing Ghost Hallucinations in a World of Technological Surveillance’.
Working group
- Director: Qiong Zhang
- Performers: Christy Ma (MA in Comparative Dramaturgy and Performance Research), Jing Xie (guest), Xiaole Wang (MA in Live Art and Performance Studies), Yumo Cheng (guest)
- Sound designer: Johanna Sulalampi