Performance Art Video: “Wish You Were Here” (2014)

Repeat a lie a thousand times and it becomes the truth.
– I repeat the same sentence more than a thousand times and it becomes more than truth.

Documentary of my work “Wish You Were Here” (HD, 17’10’,’ 2014) is featured in the Performance Art Video platform.

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Wir sind das Volk! (homage to all peaceful revolutionaries) (performance)

Thanks for the generous support from the Goethe-Institut Hongkong, I presented a live performance at HALLE 14, Leipzig as part of the exhibition “The Ends of Freedom” on 7/11/2019, on the occasion of the 30th anniversary of the fall of Berlin Wall.

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Frank Vigneron. Hong Kong Soft Power (2018)

My work was featured in Frank Vigneron’s book Hong Kong Soft Power: Art Practices in the Special Administrative Region, 2005-2014 published by The Chinese University Press, 2018:

 

〈女身自主時代〉 ‘Female body empowerment’

文:梁嘉麗

行為藝術:以身體衝破禁忌

紋身和繩綁,是女性宣示身體主權的媒介,亦是來自外界、透過第三者加諸於自己身體的。然而,要掌握甚至運用身體作為反抗社會對女身單一、狹隘的想像,行為藝術就是最直白的表現。跨媒界藝術家魂游身材纖細,紥起馬尾就如小女孩,但在藝術界別中,她絕對不是唯唯諾諾的女孩,經常以自己的身體,表現出驚人的力量,令人反思女性身體在藝術乃至社會的角色和定位。在行為藝術家 Marina Abramovic 的電影放映前,魂游在講台上分享着自己的經驗,照片中的她,一絲不掛,在一張桌子上,移動着身體,以手臂和大腿的力量,從桌上攀到桌下然後回到桌上,身體綻放着光芒,呈現出女身的綫條和輪廓之美。作品《在桌上:向霜田誠二致敬》,是向霜田誠二的《在桌上》致敬,但重複的,卻只是那張桌子的設置,不論是概念抑或展現出來的美感,都跟「原著」大相逕庭。

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