Yidi Wang

Artist Statement

You could say I am a feminist; You could say I am a cyborg; You could say I am a post-human.

I create new media work including critical software, electronics, internet, video installations, and real-time performances that lead to discussions. I am an observer of encounters of female body in different eras and social contexts. I create performances inviting viewers to engage. Motherhood, parenthood, sex and gender are the hack way of me to have conversations with the audiences. A critique of power dynamics within the concurrent technological and social systems we're building around ourselves is central to my work.

I am working with biology art. Investigating the exemplification of non-human creatures to construct dialogs of gender and rights in posthuman settings share a rise to part as a critical location for introduction and sensorial engagement to bait viewers into new advanced and topical regions by means of their most identifiable, recognizable forms. How does information lose its physical form? How are cyborgs constructed into technological products and cultural icons? How humans become post-human?

My present body appears frequently in and around my work, with a raw and exposed vulnerability and strength as powerful methods of forging connections with audiences through the sublime. Each work feels like an endeavor to hack my way out of myself and into closeness with others.