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“like a flower paddle my teeth”

Issue 13

Artist Collaboration

“like a flower paddle my teeth”

Ada Hao
Ada Hao, like a flower paddle my teeth (dithered detail), 10 minutes 34 seconds, 2019. Digital image courtesy of Ada Hao
Figure 1 Ada Hao, like a flower paddle my teeth, 10 minutes 34 seconds, 2019. Digital image courtesy of Ada Hao

About the author

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    Ada Xiaoyu Hao is an artist working and curating in performance. Currently, she is working on her practice-based PhD research project: Plastic Fantasies: Reconfigure Subjectivity As Embodied Avatars, at the University of Brighton. How to construct subjectivity on the threshold of becoming? Ada’s performances deterritorialise viewers with a non-dualistic reconfiguration among embodied subjects and alienated individuals by reimagining and resituating the embodied experience of “becoming” as a radical performance-based method that disrupts the existing knowledge of post-human subjectivity. As a curator in performance, Ada runs PAPRIKA Collective with such questions as: would it be possible for one to make an analogy between a site-specific performance space and a scientific lab? If possible, can we use any site-specific performance space as an inhabitant to purposely situate “becoming”? Most recently, Ada has presented the one-year project NAUT-ADA (2019) at the “Fiction as Method” symposium at Bath University. Read about her work and projects at http://www.adahao.com and http://www.paprika.org.uk.

Imprint

Author Ada Hao
Date 30 September 2019
Category Artist Collaboration
Review status Peer Reviewed (Double Blind)
License Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International (CC BY-NC 4.0)
Downloads PDF format
Article DOI https://doi.org/10.17658/issn.2058-5462/issue-13/ahao
Cite as Hao, Ada. “‘Like a Flower Paddle My Teeth.’” In British Art Studies: London, Asia, Exhibitions, Histories (Edited by Hammad Nasar and Sarah Victoria Turner). London and New Haven: Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art and Yale University Press, 2019. https://master--britishartstudies-13.netlify.app/issues/13/like-a-flower-paddle-my-teeth/.