Identity

Fu, Mengxi 2012

Material

• Pink stickers x n

• Human body x 2

• Tools: football, bicycle, snakes, fruits, books, glasses, pens, etc.

• Places : library, smoking area, classroom bedroom

• Size various

Artist statement

• “Name” is actually a symbol, letting people more conveniently and correctly describe an item; “body” is the carrier of name. Different people can give the same item different names. Who am I? People call me Mengxi, but maybe in someplace Mengxi means a kind of tree or a bowl of shit. So, “name” can make each item special, and form the boundary between them. If I break down the constitution, the boundary between each item will collapse. I found various places to perform. The limited spaces represent the whole world, which make a voice: Mengxi can be everything!

References

William Kentridge

Reference

• Ann Hamilton

Reference

• Adrian Piper

Mengxi can be everything!

Mengxi can be everything!

Mengxi can be everything!

Mengxi can be everything!

Citations • William Kentidge, Caged Man from Zeno at 4 A.M.2001. One from a series of nine aquatint and drypoints, plate: 9 3/4 x 7 13/16" (24.7 x 19.8 cm); sh

eet: 14 x 11 5/8" (35.6 x 29.5 cm). Publisher: David Krut Fine Art, Johannesburg and New York. • http://26hoursaday.wordpress.com/2011/02/24/william-kentridge/• 1st Nov, 2012• William Kentridge, Act1, Scene 2, from the portfolio Ubu Tells the Truth, 1996; Hardground, softground, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving; Collection

of the artist http://artsfuse.org/57607/anti-entropy-and-uncle-order-a-dispatch-from-william-kentridges-sixth-norton-lectures/ 1st Nov,2012 • William Kentridge, Act III, Scene 9, from the portfolio Ubu Tells the Truth, 1996; Hardground, softground, aquatint, drypoint, and engraving; Collectio

n of the artist; http://www.sfmoma.org/exhib_events/exhibitions/380#ixzz2BUZ7P7w4San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1st Nov,2012

• Ann Hamilton. "kaph," detail, 1997Installation at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TexasCurved tearing walls, mounded dirt covered with cloth on tables, mechanized trapeze, seated figure, silk gloves, embroidered with numbers, dimensions variablePhoto by Paul Hester

• http://blog.art21.org/2010/08/03/the-paradoxical-art-of-inception/1st, Nov, 2012• Ann Hamilton, book weight, 2008 Carl Solway

Archival inkjet print, 44 x 34 inches• http://www.bus.umich.edu/rossart/collection/Artwork.aspx?artwork_ord=304, 1st, Nov, 2012• Ann Hamilton

body object series #13, toothpick suit/chair, 1984,gelatin silver print, printed 1993,11 x 11 cm (4 5/16 x 4 5/16 in.)National Gallery of Art, Washington,Gift of Heather and Tony Podesta Collection http://intothinice.blogspot.com/p/research.html 1st, Nov, 2012

• Adrian Piper, Vanilla Nightmare#13, 1986, Kohlezeichnung auf ZeitungspapierCourtesy Adrian Piper und Paula Cooper Gallery, New Yorkhttp://www.fashionoffice.org/culture/adrianpiper3-2002.htm

• 1st Nov, 2012• Adrian Piper, Vanilla Nightmares #10, 1986, Drawings and Watercolors, Drawings | charcoal, oil crayon on newspaper Walker Art Centerhttp://artsco

nnected.org/resource/89879/vanilla-nightmares-10• 1st Nov, 2012• Adrian Piper, Art for the Art World Surface Pattern1976;1987• installation | mixed-media installation with custom wallpaper, stenciled text, and audio tape• 84 in. x 60 in. x 60 in. (213.36 cm x 152.4 cm x 152.4 cm),Acquired 2001,Collection SFMOMA,Purchase through a gift of Shawn and Brook Byers• http://www.sfmoma.org/explore/collection/artwork/103650#ixzz2BUjhwJxt

San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 1st Nov, 2012