Sidian Liu, You are too cute I have to bite you, 2024. Tapas Banquet, The Living Skin, Brooklyn, NY, US. Photos taken by Jacqueline Kyuseo Kim.

You are too cute I have to bite you
2024
Performance
2 hours

As part of the Tapas Banquet at the Living Skin, I laid down on a bed with carrots, watermelon slices, strawberries, kale, and lotus leaves on my body for pets to feast on. A bunny showed up, feasted, and was gazed and wowed at. When people talked to me I responded. 

Gathering the gaze upon pets while inserting a woman’s body as a reminder, this project probes the subtle violence within the gazes that deem something as cute.

This performence was in response to Sha Luo & Yulin Gu’s Seal the Fog, Again, a project exhibited at Tapas that examines how cruelty wraps itself in innocence thinking of childhood carnival games played in China, where the prize sometimes are live animals. 
你可爱得让我想咬一口
2024
行为 
两小时

我躺在床上,身上铺满了胡萝卜、西瓜片、草莓、羽衣甘蓝和荷叶,供宠物享用。一只兔子出现了,大快朵颐,观众们纷纷注目并发出赞叹。当人们与我交谈时,我会如常回应。

这个项目汇聚了人们看向宠物的目光,并让一名女性的身体在场,以这样的共置揭露那些认为某些事物“可爱“的目光中潜藏的微妙暴力。

作为Living Skin展览Tapas闭幕的一部分,这场表演是对罗莎和顾宇琳《再封迷雾》的回应。该项目在Tapas展出,探讨了童真与残酷的连接,联想到童年时在中国游乐园玩过的的游戏里,有时奖品是注定短命的活体动物。