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.
Inspired by German avant-garde artist Joseph Beuys 1974 performance I Like America and America Likes Me, an artistic action which Beuys spent three consecutive days confined in a gallery enclosure with a live coyote ... Disciglio will, for one night only, ensconce himself with a Chinese-made Unitree robotic dog.
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The LLM has a duplicitous non-body, and China is engaging the “body problem.” Whether or not they want it, (the robots) are here, thanks to what China has made possible ...
⭑.ᐟ About the artist
Dann Disciglio (b. 1993) is an American artist whose artistic practice is rooted in the belief that technology can only be comprehensively understood through a body. Working across mediums including sculpture, installation, and performance, Disciglio challenges his audience to encounter bodies -- tree limbs, discarded computers, speakers, robotic systems, landscapes -- that have been augmented, hacked, and/or recomposed, with prosthetics, algorithms, and other technological modifications. Through these deliberate entanglements, Disciglio's work creates temporary, hyper localized environments in which new forms of perception, time, and intelligence emerge. Disciglio has exhibited works and led performances nationally and internationally, including at the Contemporary Jewish Museum in San Francisco, the United States Botanic Garden, the Museet for Samtidskunst in Roskilde (DK), the Malta Society of Arts (Valletta), Kino Šiška (SI), SGMK (CH). He is also the curator and the co-director of the EAR Forest, a 16-channel immersive audio venue and acoustic research forest at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, OR.
⭑.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.
⭑.ᐟ huge thanks to SUNNNY for supporting this performance
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