Performance
Radical Joy. Co-Prosperity Sphere
Chicago
2023
In this work, I explored the meaning of freedom and self-definition as a means of resistance. I composed a series of seemingly everyday actions intended to create expectations in the viewers, immediately failing to fulfill them. Aggressive in attitude, but tongue-in-cheek in subtext, this work ends with a tense moment, on which the last movement of Beethoven’s 9th Symphony—an embodiment of Western modern values—becomes the protagonist.
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