Xinming Luo
Performative Objects
Projects
Body Bridge
2019.05.20 Millennium Bridge, London
A metaphor about self-body and social-body.
How do private life and collective space affect each other?
Floating Self-consciousness
2019.09.02 Underground Victoria Line, London
How are our self-consicousness and identity definition influenced by the social environment and the views of others?
Walking the Intimacy
2019.10.06 St James's Park, London
A metaphor about intimate relationship and original family.
How do people in intimate relationship are connected but bound to each other?
Group Necklace
2019.12.05 Camberwell, London
A group peformance workshop about ten participants wearing a soft necklace together to explore the collective body and social control
Hug Yourself by Others
2019.02.25 Camberwell, London
How do our body shapes are affected by social standards? Wearable sculpture performance of inviting others to hug.
Untouchable Emotions
2020.06.23 London
Six sensorial objects discussing the anxiety emotions when people invade each other's personal space.
We Struggle We Support
Wearable sculpture for inviting others to "join your body", a manifestation of physical empathy, through touching, moving, and leaning on each other. In this interactive atmosphere, people can feel their own body shape through the wrapping of soft objects, at the same time , they can also feel the others' movements to aware the impact from social body.