Guided Tour: Lu Yang’s Screen Bodies

Date: Saturday 29 October 2022
Time: 2.00 – 2.30pm AEST
Location: CIW Gallery, Australian Centre on China in the World, Building 188, Fellows Lane,
Canberra ACT 2601

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Join co-curator Gabriel Remy-Handfield on a guided tour exploring the ‘Lu Yang’s Screen Bodies’ exhibition.

About this event

Image: Still from Doku – Digital Alaya, 2022, courtesy of the artist and COMA, Sydney.

About the Exhibition

Screen Bodies is a solo exhibition by Lu Yang, one of the most highly acclaimed new media artists in China today. Part of a generation of artists who grew up with digital technologies, Lu Yang has had unprecedented access to a variety of cultures and aesthetics, both underground and popular. Working in a range of digital forms from motion capture performances to video games, 3D animation, virtual reality, and augmented reality, the artist draws on references as diverse as Japanese manga, science fiction, video games, Buddhist philosophy and iconography, as well as biotechnology and the neurosciences.

The CIW Gallery is also open 11am – 3pm on 29 October 2022.

About the Speaker

Gabriel Remy-Handfield is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature and East Asian visual art and culture at the University of Montreal. His academic interests encompass contemporary art and visual culture, focusing on queer studies, new materialisms, critical posthumanism, Deleuze and Guattari studies, Buddhist philosophy, performance studies, and the new media/ digital arts. His dissertation examines the aberrant aesthetics of the work of Lu Yang.