The Art of Loving Our selves - Part1 & Part 2
The Art of Loving Our selves- Part1 (Un)learn The intersectional shame-20mins lecture-performance
The Art Of Loving Our selves-Part2 (un)learn to LOVE-25mins lecture- performance
Through performance, Zhou Jinxiao aims to create an safe space to practice embodied forms of (un)learning and explore self-love: the act of loving one’s self. In his performances, Zhou takes an intersectional approach to uncover and understand underlying affections, such as the shame experienced by a non-heterosexual man, his crisis of identity. The artist explores how oppressive power structures rooted in history，coloniality，capitalism and politics, have constructed an emotional framework one is forced to experience while searching for one’s sexual self—including a perpetual sense of shame. In the performative work The Art of Loving our selves, Zhou unfolds a multiplicity of selves that allows queer affections to flow, opening up a pathway to communicate with our/selves and gain a deeper understanding of who we are. At the same time, the practice of self-love uncovers and challenges the visible and invisible suppressions non-heterosexual men experience on a daily basis.
Image: Filippo Giuseppe Iannone/ CHUNYAO LIN
