2026.05.05 Tuesday 19:30
Location
Fotografiska, No.127 Guangfu Road, Jing’an District, Shanghai
Artist：Tian Yi
Guest Artist：Lu Boyu
酌情: No Heavy Petting is a lecture performance combined with a weighing game, featuring the artist and a sculptural work as its participants. Through a chant-like script, the piece demonstrates how an intimate relationship can be constructed: on the surface, the words seem to arouse emotion, while in fact they are also taming the object. Here, language no longer merely provides narration, but becomes a form of emotional training and relational calibration directed toward different roles.
As the script unfolds, the participants enter the weighing game. Their bodies are placed on the same scale and turned into units of weight, adjusting their positions in order to balance the seesaw structure.
Currently lives and works in Shanghai. She obtained her bachelor's degree from the London College of Communication in 2018 and her MA degree from the Royal College of Art in 2020. TIAN Yi's practice revolves around reflections on ecology and its derivatives. Working with digital technologies, organic media, and biological materials, she creates situations in which these elements become mutually embedded. Attuned to increasingly sensitive fragments of information, she seeks to capture ecological landscapes and interspecies/post-species relationships in states of transition, using them as catalysts for her artistic creation.
Lu Boyu, born in 1991, currently lives and works in Shanghai. His practice is primarily centered on performance-based video. Employing concise forms and de-dramatized expression, his works generate a direct emotional resonance with the viewer. Through a rebellious lens, he attempts to observe and reconstruct the order of everyday life from multiple perspectives, revealing his continuous exploration of the spiritual space within reality, as well as his reflection on and examination of the inner self.
VORTEX, launched by the MACA in Shanghai in 2022, is an art and cultural salon in the form of lecture performances occurring once or twice every month. The programme calls for non-institutionalised artistic and academic production in which contemporary art practitioners and scholars get to explore cross-disciplinarily the issues of the macro or micro, the global or local, the collective or individual. VORTEX, hence, is where you spin in the whirlpool of spontaneous whims and intuitive approaches represented by individual research and enquiries. Being present here at VORTEX, you are experiencing versatile forms of lecture performances that experiment with new mechanisms and methodologies.
