Sorry Crisps Ministry of Defense Rave Party (2021)


 

In 2021, the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic confined people themselves in their own rooms, the outside environment had become off-limits. Thus, I collaborated with artists QingQing Liu, Chloe Langlois, River Cao and DJ Nanzen Yang and works by Arianne Churchman and Kühle Wampe ect.to hold an online Zoom event Sorry Crisps Ministry of Defense Rave Party, inviting public to freedom their own soul in the virtual world. The event was expanded from the short presentation in STATE OF THE ART CAP Symposium, organized by Pil Kollectiv with a diplomatic delegation from Plastique Fantastique for RCA Contemporary Art Practice programme festival Everthing Forever

We represented the Ministry of Defense (MoD), a department transformed from defending national territory in the real world to defend national interests in the virtual world. By holding a rave party that showed the MoD promotional parade, read the MoD manifesto, and danced improvisation with public in front of the screens, we hoped to achieve TOTAL FLESH COMMUNISM, where the state becomes a subscription service (albeit mandatory) and all the activities in each individual's room were re-controlled and reorganized by MoD.

The manifesto:
https://drive.google.com/file/d/19W0xnUZL_8BRgDeyL3GyQNwxz99l7cRs/view?usp=sharing

MOD military parade dance tutorial video for promotion.

https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1P1zOtSCdhgSF7nr6IlW4humYECNdCQhm?usp=sharing
Event screen shots and behid the scene.

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