BXBY

Soojin Chang

Screening & Talk

Soojin Chang

Event overview

Soojin Chang's BXBY screens at Queer East Film Festival 2023 as part of Alien Body, Human Dreams, a programme exploring the body as a potent site of hybridity, complexity and resistance to artificial binaries.

There will be a post-screening Q&A with Soojin Chang and curator April Lin 林森. BXBY screens alongside work by Trâm Anh Nguyễn, Aileen Ye, Natasha Tontey and others.

BXBY is a year-long performance project that merges forms of semi-fictional documentary and ritual practice, following Chang as a hybrid, shape-shifting being trying to learn to reproduce. Drawing from chimeric figures within creation stories of the British Isles and the diasporic cultures of Chang and her collaborators (Choulay Mech, Jade O'belle, Anika Ahuja, and Aditya Surya Taruna a.k.a Kasimyn), Chang positions their own hybrid body – part animal, part woman, part alien – as a site of technological interaction and as a locus of ongoing experiment. Sampling diverse scientific methods such as IVF, biohacking, and voluntary self-touch, BXBY addresses the legacy of colonial science to open out into wider affirmation of queer, interspecies kinship and reliance. From this position, BXBY aims to spur a purposeful discussion on notions of sacrifice, animality, objecthood and in/visibility; looking in particular to animist techniques of embodying and remembering.

BXBY (2022) by Soojin Chang was commissioned for the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022: a collaboration between Jerwood Arts and Film and Video Umbrella in partnership with Leeds Art Gallery.

Event details

Details

27 April 2023

Queer East Film Festival

Barbican Cinema
Beech St, London EC1Y 8AA

Screen 2
18:15

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