MISS SCREENAHOLIC
UNCONSCIOUS KUNG FU
CURATED BY CAI LIYUAN
Miss Screenaholic is one of the many identities of this conceptual artist. Unconscious Kung Fu uses the image to play conceptual games and react to (or fight back against) reality. This exhibition reflects the politics of the image and the consideration or instinctive political use of the image, even though these fights may occur subtly beneath the surface of Miss Screenaholic’s strange humor, her unawareness, pettiness, cuteness, silliness, improvisation, and her lightness. The one who tries to find “the photo” (Find the Photo), the one who tears the image book apart (Print the Books and Then Tear Them), the naive artist as well as clumsy magician (Naive Artist, Clumsy Magician), the banana deliverer (Banana Man), the poet or the gambler (Half a Poem), the young men (Riso-Graph), the small animals (Regressing Little Animal). The seven pieces presented in this exhibition are actually images themselves, or supported by images to realize concepts within their specific contexts. Here, the image is no longer a documentation nor a visual complement to a performance; instead, it is the method, a condition and really the core of what allows their actions or concepts to be accomplished.
Miss Screenaholic, diverting from the documentation of Boat ZHANG’s performance work Naive Artist, Clumsy Magician - The Second Magic (2018), found image, 2019. Original document by Ayaka Ura. Courtesy of the artist.
Miss Screenaholic, found image, diverting from the documentation of Boat ZHANG’s performance work Naive Artist, Clumsy Magician - The Second Magic (2018), 2019. Original documente by Takashi Sonoda. Courtesy of the artist.
Miss Screenaholic, diverting from the screenshot of Boat ZHANG’s video work Beautiful World Where Are You? (2018), found image, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Miss Screenaholic, diverting from the screenshot of Boat ZHANG’s performative video work Naive Artist, Clumsy Magician - The First Magic (2018), found image, 2019. Courtesy of the artist.
Miss Screenaholic, found image, diverting from the documentation of Boat ZHANG’s performance work Naive Artist, Clumsy Magician - The Second Magic (2018), 2019. Original document by Ayaka Ura. Courtesy of the artist.