Zhuoyan(Zoey) Hu

Queer dances in the club and abstracts the body as a symbolic metaphor

Allwhite Hu (Zoey Hu,b.1999) is a multidisciplinary artist born in Chengdu, China and now based in London. Her work creates a combination of illustration, animation, and performance, which she calls dynamic collage.

She uses the method of autoethnography to explore queer narratives and symbolic metaphor. Her research tries to fill the gap in documentation of Asian queer culture, as well as exploring queer body politics.

Her previous education includes BA Visual Communication from Jiangnan University (2021)

Exhibition and activities:

2022, Germinate exhibition- Thetis S.P.A, Venice

2022, Green Fire- Being in Hermitage exhibition -PassingWell, Shanghai

2022, Shanghai Design Week -Now, Shanghai

I'm a soft curtain.

Blow me, refract me, form me.

During Zoey’s undergraduate years, she spent a lot of time in the female-friendly club established by her friend and rekindled her love of dance.

During her studies at the RCA, she extended her interest in visual arts from two dimensions to voguing and contemporary dance and performance. Dance as a presentation doesn’t exist in the past or the future, it’s all about this moment. There is a similarity of this temporary and unstable nature between dance, relationship and the body.The Body can assist awareness, The Body can be a tool, Dance can become encounter.

As a queer individual, it is part of her personality to question traditions and rebel against boundaries. She also engages with different LGBTQ+ organizations to provide support and defend the rights of women.

The club is a container for the body, the encounter and the movement of the body also constitute the club.

The transition between Positions and symbols. The photos are from different periods of my dancing, and memories of clubbing with friends.

When I was seven I tried to catch a dragonfly, but I held it too tightly and its tail snapped right off. Later I realised that freedom and this are actually the same thing.

Dressing up for clubbing

Club scene1

Body can asscist awarness

Dance can beome encounter

Storyboard & process

Why is our space so unstable? The context of space in this project refers to two things: one is the club site, the other is our body.

As a lesbian woman born in an east-Asian cultural context, one criteria that I use to define whether a space is safe and chill enough is if I can dance freely in that site. Dance as a presentation doesn’t exist in the past or the future, it’s all about this moment. There is a similarity of this temporary and unstable nature between dance, relationship and the queer body.

The Body can assist awareness, The Body can be a tool, Dance can become encounter.

In this project I use the method of autoethnography to link queer spaces and the body with animation and dancing.

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Digital, Collage on paper

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4724*2362px

Velveting is a zine about whether or not to choose to come out in the Chinese cultural context, where gay marriage is not yet legal. At a time when the world is encouraging everyone to speak their pronounce out loud, coming out can cause unexpected problems in Chinese families. Muddling through has become the best way for gay couples to cope with the urge to marry. And this attitude happens to be similar to the thickening in Chinese cooking.

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Riso print on paper

Size:

15*15cm

chinese comeout illustration queerness risograph zine

Communication is like burning firewood, constantly needs new firewood to continue. The firewood will burn out one day, but thanks for bringing the sparks and the warmth

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Hard ground on copper plate

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