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Artist, Director and Performer

Blue Dream

Super 8mm, Video Poetry, Performance

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Blue Dream (2022) is the first live staging of Blue (2022), presented by Wang at the Central Saint Martins Scratch Night, Platform Theatre, on 10 November 2022. The work is structured in three sections as an experiment in layering: the first section screened the video; the second added a body on stage; the third added speech. The toilet was chosen as set for its symbolic charge — domestic, everyday, liminal.

Across the work, Blue Dream operates in three registers at once: as confession, as love letter, and as an act of anemoia — the sorrow or nostalgia for a place or time one never personally experienced, the public memories and generational trauma we inherit within it, such as the AIDS epidemic and the shame attached to it. The work sets the conceptual and formal foundation that the later pieces — Touch My Mumblings, Hug My Words, Kiss My Singing (2023), Liminal Stranding (2023), and Shitalk (2025–) — each carry forward in different keys. Blue held the archive; Blue Dream placed it in front of an audience

Project summary
[YEAR ]

2022

[FORM ]

Super 8 Film, Video Poem, Performance, Live Performance and Artists' Moving Image

[PLACE]

London, UK

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Artist

'Blue' (2022) is a triptych autobiofiction video poetry held in intertextual relation to Derek Jarman's Blue (1993). Each was made inside a pandemic and the stigma/fear towards virus and targeted community, and 'Blue' (2022) through the lens of a Chinese diaspora artist as an act of anemoia: a longing for a time and a loss the artist did not live through, only inherited. By layering iPhone footage of daily life with personal Super 8mm travel film and captions, the work registers liminality as the structural condition in which race, gender, sexuality, virus, isolation, and addiction entangle.

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Mingxiang Wang

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