Octopus in Drag
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| Creator | Muyang Teng |
| Year | 2024 |
| Bio | Muyang Teng, born in 1998 in Changzhou, Jiangsu, is a QPOC poet and image-maker. They explore how racial melancholy affects individual and collective identities, utilizing various cultural symbols and performance styles to transcend archival, cultural, and geographical boundaries, creating a new way of interpretation that challenges the traditional understanding of history and reality. |
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Octopus in Drag is a 3D animation, set in a white porcelain toilet symbolizing Western views on Chinese purity. It features a creature from the animality of Yellow Peril & Fu Manchu, using drag to exhibit racial & queer toxicity. It explores (im)penetrability, transfiguration & unreliable surfacing of (queered) yellow-skinned people, advocating a (porous) transfeminist perspective inspired by I Ching.