HOMMAGE (2023)

Credits

Concept&Choreography: Yang Zhen
Dancers: Sun Ran, Peng Mi, Feng Yichen, Zheng Minmin
Stage Design&Lighting Design: Liu Shihao
Choreography Assistant: Liu Peilin Executive
Lighting Design: Deng Zhifeng, Deng Yonghao
Executive Dance Supervisor&Lighting: Deng Zhifeng
Assistant Stage Supervisor: Deng Yonghao
Production Executive&Stage Supervisor: Li Jingxian, Dong Yue
Production Coordinator&Production Support: Wang Guan 
Production Support: Li Jingxian Clothing&Collection: Yang Zhen Sanmu Zhuying 
Graphic Design&Video: Zhang Yongji

About

“We live in an era of things. I mean we live to adapt their rhythm and ever-changing reality. In all the previous civilizations, what survived after generations was things—long-lasting tools or buildings; today, however, we and our bodies witness the generation, perfection and extinction of things.” —Jean Baudrillard (France)

The combination of Chinese fashion and Chinese body: I want to study and present the most complex performance way of body and emotion in the process of Chinese localization of fashion.
In such a group in Guangdong, China, it is called “杀⻢特SMART ”. Smart purely imitates VR, just like non mainstream. The "visual system" has been popular in Japan for many years. Until the 1980s, the Japanese visual system culture began to be popular in China, which was pursued and imitated by most Chinese teenagers, and formed a network family on the Internet, known as the Chinese network "visual family”. The unusual fashion choice of "Smart" reflects a deeper reason: the sense of collective alienation, which is a by-product of the Chinese migration tide and the expansion of the national class differentiation. They are all called "Smart" because they are young immigrants and are in a lower position on the social ladder.

The work “Hommage” draws on Baudrillard’s analysis in “The Consumer Society” to reinterpret and reexamine the “sequelae” brought by the post-globalization era to human bodies. Around “the resonance between things and the body”, external body ornaments are made to interlock with internal imagination and expression to obtain autonomy and complexity. A scene of world cultural integration is concentrated on the body to make the body a collection of new cultures and fashions localist in china .