A catwalk in the centre of the space. A young man with blond hair and fashionable clothes turns it into his stage, flirts with the audience, passes out little hearts, soon accompanied by three other cool dancers with attitude. To hip-hop, dance, and pop music, they walk through current Chinese fashion trends. The flashy look and sound of the young Chinese generation originates in a visual culture that has spilled over from Japan to China since the 1980s. A feeling of collective alienation plays an important role here. Are the dancers extravagant individualists or puppets of a rigid system? Do they dance their own dance of liberation or are they trapped in minimalist movements? Yang Zhen's piece interweaves body ornamentation and the intimate search for identity, and takes a critical look at consumption in order to explore the "effects" of post-globalisation on the human body. In reference to Jean Baudrillard's book The Consumer Society, he explores "the resonance between things and the body".
Afterwards on both days: Talk with the artists
