Hsia-Fei Chang (Taiwan/France)
Performance - 23 October, Galeria Noua, 20.00h
Academiei no 15 (opposite Architecture University)

Hsia-Fei Chang (www.hsia-fei.com) is Taiwanese artist, who lives and works in Paris. In her performance in Bucharest she will try to find “freedom and humanity, especialy the position of women in today’s society”.

“Hsia-Fei Chang can rid us of the blues, she can make us plunge – with our own consent – into images and atmospheres that change the world into travel-agency posters, into calendar pictures or sonorous moods which dissipate nostalgia and boredom. Whether she appears on stage dressed up as a good girl (with a travel-agent’s looks) or as a rebellious chick gone bananas (I wear an impossible wig and I keep moving in all directions, which has nothing to do with the song I’m singing), whether she chooses to embody or explode the models she enacts, whether she jiggles about on the stage dressed up as a lass that is too flashy or too exotic for us to take t in, whether she plays back (I only pretend to) or in karaoke (this is the contemporary appropriation of emotions sold and reproduced in millions of copies), whether she does this in a setting typical of a night club in a town counting less than 200000 inhabitants or on poor replicas of television studios, Hsia-Fei Chang embodies – in a way that is so matter-of-fact, so self-detached and so much conscious of discrepancies and ruptures (which is so trash..) – a whole plethora of naïve and popular representations of the exotic (a Western product), of happiness (laissez-moi chanter…), and of the cardboard woman (as conceived, reproduced and disseminated by the culture industry).”

Excerpt from "A letter de soutien by Jean-Charles Massera for Hsia-Fei Chang "

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