Cancer Baby

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FIELD MEETING Associate Curator, Xing Wang, introduced the practice of Shanghai-based multi-media artist Lu Yang, who creates fantastical, often morbid visions of death, sexuality, mental illness, and neurological constructs of both real-life forms and deities. Followed by Lu Yang’s specially conceived performance for FIELD MEETING developed from her latest project Cancer Baby (2014), in collaboration with experimental composer Du Yun || duYun. Immersed in subcultures of anime, video games, sci-fi and music, the performanceattempted to provoke a dialogue about cancer and human mortality. “I wanted to try to make cancer more cute, kawaii or something... to break the serious view ofdeath and disease. In human history, people have had very different ideas about death. Before people had a natural feeling about it, they thought they could die any day, but after hundreds of years they started to believe death was a long way away. Sometimes they even forget they will die at all. All my work says that death and disease are just a part of life.” (An excerpt from interview with Lu Yang published on China Animation and Game Network)