Qianyang Kong

Qianyang Kong is a multi-disciplinary artist who specialises in knitting. She sees knitting as a deconstructive performance that is saturated with revelation and concealment.

From her perspective, the distinction between art and design that is an artwork mostly speaking for itself without elaboration.

Continuous loops, subtle tension and tangled threads are composed of a dynamic space, metaphorizing inner part of herself. Her background takes her to where she is, empowers her to express what she speaks inevitably. She envisions herself as an activist in the future, and will potentially engage with the ancient Chinese craft that is devalued due to the racism and complicated domestic circumstance. She believes the language of craft can express her attitude towards the world. This expression is obscure, and this expression comes from artist's inner self-awareness.

Not all of the things that are attached with the body conjures up the concept of fashion. Bodies also as an underlaying structure activate a sculpture, giving a sculpture dynamics in limited time.

"Attempt To Be Sculpture" was Franz Erhard Walther's early oeuvre who insists the sculpture would exist for a short time, and persist only in the photograph.

Attempt To Be Close was part of her inner reflection and paid a tribute to artist Franz Erhard Walther, unravelling the interconnections in-between architecture and a piece of clothing. Architectural space was less a container for the body than an aspect of the body transformed (Tavernor, 2002). Oskar Schlemmer’s “theory of the reaction of the human body and costume is no less a theory of the relation of body and architecture” (Tavernor, 2002). In that case, architecture space is transformed by a number of interactive circumstances with human beings.