I work between performance, 3D animation, experimental video, and electronic music. I am highly influenced by Shanghai's underground electronic music culture and clubs, and the queer communities that participate in these spaces, and the localization and decolonization of the westernized definition of queer in Chinese clubs. Through post-club aesthetics, my works present the duality of visibility of the Chinese queer identity in the clubs and the simulation of physical and virtual spaces for the Chinese queer community. My works hone in on the meaning of public space for Chinese queer people and how dance parties can shelter their queerness from the Confucianism tradition value that less supports non-mainstream ideologies and non-heterosexuality. In this paper, I explore how post-club aesthetics influence the Chinese underground club scene, the queer culture within Chinese politics, the Chinese definition of queerness, and the post-club methods of creating spaces to make queer identities visible and redefining the public space. I investigate these topics with my selected works to research how the post-club aesthetic functions in my visual language, and to examine and support my argument of why I choose the performance, electronic music, video art, and virtual reality to gain queer visibility by creating post-club experiences.
