I Like China and China Likes Me
For this performance, the artist and a Unitree Go2 Quadruped are enclosed together inside of a dog crate for an extended period of time.
⭑.ᐟ About the artist
Dann Disciglio (b. 1993) is a transdisciplinary artist whose research examines how naturalism and humanism are reconfigured through the deliberate entangling of biological and computational systems. Working with trees, bees, bacteria, sensing devices, AI models, and lots and lots of gear, Disciglio constructs sculptural and spatial systems that grant audiences access to forms of perception, embodiment, and temporality that are otherwise humanly inaccessible. His installations and performances treat non-humans and technology not as metaphors but as parallel interlocutors—agents whose signals, behaviors, and material logics complicate anthropocentric assumptions and expand the ways humans encounter the world. Disciglio is Visiting Professor of Art & Technology at Lewis & Clark College, where he co-directs the Experimental Art Research (EAR) Forest, a permanent outdoor platform for ecological and technological inquiry.
⭑.ᐟ About the exhibition
Presented in conjunction with our current group exhibition on Chinamaxxing.
Earlier this year, “Chinamaxxing” emerged online as a playful embrace of contemporary China—its technology, infrastructure, food, fashion, and everyday life. But what, exactly, are you embracing—a culture, an aesthetic, a political possibility, a different version of yourself? And how does that invitation feel when the culture being discovered is already your own?
Across sculpture, moving image, poetry, performance, and interactive systems, Chinamaxxing follows objects, technologies, and rituals as they travel across borders. The artists explore what gets translated, imitated, misunderstood, or made intimate along the way.
The exhibition asks what we want from China, and what we might discover beyond wanting.
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