{"id":9459,"date":"2024-04-10T18:26:56","date_gmt":"2024-04-10T18:26:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/?p=9459"},"modified":"2024-12-17T11:52:15","modified_gmt":"2024-12-17T17:52:15","slug":"shu-lea-cheangs-uki-and-fresh-kill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.saic.edu\/cate\/2024\/04\/10\/shu-lea-cheangs-uki-and-fresh-kill\/","title":{"rendered":"Shu Lea Cheang: UKI"},"content":{"rendered":"

Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n

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Shu Lea Cheang, UKI, 2023. Courtesy of the artist.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

In her latest feature, pioneering media artist Shu Lea Cheang mixes 3D animation and live action to create an exhilaratingly queer science-fiction epic of corporate surveillance, contagion, sex, and biotechnology. Residents of a city beset by a viral epidemic discover that the pharmaceutical firm GENOM has been harvesting data about their sex lives to develop a drug that will bring the population under its control. Meanwhile, one of GENOM\u2019s humanoid data collectors, dumped into a toxic e-waste site, mutates into the virus UKI. Backed by mutants, castoffs, and the city\u2019s infected activists, UKI sets out to sabotage the firm\u2019s authoritarian ambitions. Drawing from her experiences with the COVID-19 pandemic and the AIDS crisis of the 1980s and \u201890s, Cheang imbues <\/span>UKI<\/span><\/i> with the power, in her words, \u201cto mobilize, to infiltrate, to subvert.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

2023, Shu Lea Cheang, Germany \/ USA, 86 min.
\nIn English \/ Format: Digital<\/p>\n

Presented in partnership with Video Data Bank.<\/span><\/i><\/p>\n

About the artist<\/strong><\/p>\n

Born in Taiwan and now based in Paris, Shu Lea Cheang is an artist and filmmaker whose work aims to re-envision genders, genres, and operating structures. She began her career as a member of activist media collectives Paper Tiger TV and Deep Dish TV. Later, as a celebrated pioneer of Net Art, her work <\/span>Brandon<\/span><\/i> (1998\u201399) became the first-ever web-based artwork commissioned and collected by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum. Since 1994, she has produced four feature films, <\/span>Fresh Kill<\/span><\/i> (1994), <\/span>I.K.U<\/span><\/i>. (2000), <\/span>Fluid\u00f8<\/span><\/i> (2017), and <\/span>UKI <\/span><\/i>(2023), which encompass a new genre she calls \u201cScifi New Queer Cinema.\u201d In 2019, she represented Taiwan at the Venice Biennale with the mixed media installation, <\/span>3x3x6<\/span><\/i>. Over the years, Cheang has participated in many renowned international biennials, including Performa 19, New York; the 11th Taipei Biennial; the 50th and 58th Venice Biennale; and the 1992 and 1994 Whitney Biennials among others. Her works are included in the world\u2019s key permanent collections for contemporary art, including the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, New York; NTT InterCommunication Center, Tokyo; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and DSL collection, Paris.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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Wednesday, April 10, 6:00 p.m. In her latest feature, pioneering media artist Shu Lea Cheang mixes 3D animation and live action to create an exhilaratingly queer science-fiction epic of corporate surveillance, contagion, sex, and biotechnology. Residents of a city beset by a viral epidemic discover that the pharmaceutical firm GENOM has been harvesting data about […]<\/p>\n

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