Artwork
Slime is a short film made up of related online video materials. The five narrative paragraphs, Spectacle, Lust, Imagination, Monster and Engine, respond to the first question at the beginning of the film: “What is a Slime?” In the film, slime not only appears as a variety of tangible things, but also symbolizes the alienation of people and things in the contemporary world.
Artist
Wei Xiankun
Born in 1996 in Yulin, Guangxi province, graduated from The School of Humanities of Central Academy of Fine Arts with a bachelor’s degree, and is currently studying at the School of Experimental Art of Central Academy of Fine Arts with a master’s degree. Her works focus on the alienation of visual spectacle and material under the contemporary capitalist production mechanism, and carries out investigation and creation from the perspective of anthropology and visual culture research. Creative media include video, installation.
Recent exhibition:
2022
CAFA 2022 Graduate Graduation Exhibition, CAFA Art Museum, Beijing
2021
Reshaping the Chinese Soul, Ming Contemporary Art Museum, Shanghai
2019
“Post-human Turn: Cybernetics Again”, CAC Media Art Center, Shanghai
Q&A
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