Daisy Wang
The Creature of Water Walking on Land
Summary
Her current individual research project “The Creature of Water Walking on Land” perceives water as a medium inside and outside a creature’s body, prompting an ethical turn by mimicking the body movement of the animal. By embracing the non-anthropomorphic animal and the alienation of technology, it is possible to raise our awareness of animal extinction prevention, and draw attention to current ecological crises. In this research, She imitates a mallard to explore trans-species intimacies. To explore what it means to become a mallard within a context of ecological crisis, this interspecies performance draws on the history of feminist performance art, and specifically on ecofeminism, ‘Humanimal’ body art, and water. She explores the interconnection between human and animal, and arouses the awareness of caring for our nature and other species by using the human body as bio-cosmic nourishment. In addition, it will be beneficial to the understanding of trends of feminist performance art, against the background of interdisciplinary research and innovation, and the consciousness of art theory and practice.
Keywords: Posthuman Feminism, Humanimal Body Art, Becoming, Water, Time, Ecological Crises.
Additional info
Daisy Wang is a curator and interdisciplinary feminist artist. She is currently studying in MRes Architecture at the Royal College of Art, where her research interests include Posthuman Feminism and Performance Art. She graduated from Kingston University London specialised in Curating in Contemporary Design, she participated in several practical projects within the degree which collaborated with the Royal Academy of Arts, the Design Museum and the Architectural Association. In addition, she also has extensive experience in curating exhibitions nationally and internationally.
Curatorial Practice:
“Lily van der Stokker: Thank You Darling”, Camden Art Centre, London, 2022;
“Jesse Darling: Enclosures”, Camden Art Centre, London, 2022;
“Tenant of Culture: Soft Acid”, Camden Art Centre, London, 2022;
“Christian Dior: Designer of Dreams”, Long Museum, Shanghai, 2020;
“Me&Beuys - Yin Xiuzhen: Barking”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, 2021;
“MR. Solo Show: Quotidianist”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, 2021;
“Hajime Sorayama: Metropolis”, HOW Art Museum, Shanghai, 2021;
“Useless Class and Homo Deus’s Lover” Online Exhibition, 2021;
“Triennial 1st Edition: How Do We Begin?”, X-Museum, Beijing, 2020.
Participating Exhibition:
“Omitted References”, 2022.
My work begins with such a simple question: what can I become a mallard? Put it in another way, in what way can I, as the subject, truly access the existence of the other? It encounters a tough question: is it possible? If ‘I’, as a being, can create a ‘fluid-like’? Through my own planning and understanding of existence, some possibility of reaching others may be presented to me in the following way:
Becoming the other itself!
Experimental Film
The Creature of Water Walking on Land
Canterbury Water
Margate Seaside
Margate Seaside
Dover Seaside
Whitby Seaside
Whitby Seaside
Performance Practice
Observing in the Hyde Park
Observing in the Hyde Park
Observing in the Hyde Park
Observing in the Hyde Park
Performance Practice in the Hyde Park
completing the costume, details on the shoulders
(Courtesy of RCA technicians Kelly and Carolina)
completing the costume, details body parts
(Courtesy of RCA technicians Kelly and Carolina)
completing the headmask
(Courtesy of RCA technician Kelly)
joining contemporary dance classes to practice my body language, to develop my body muscle and observe how the movements can affect my own body. (The Place)
