Emotional Encounter is a hologram installation projected in public space, which serves as a tool to change people’s perception toward space and society. The work...
EROTIC POETICS ++AR Interactive Interface Chang Gao By collaging the urban environment of Victoria Station and the projection of ketchup squeezer that symbolizes the action...
This series of work Intimacy Fantasy aims to remember the biggest fantasy of festive celebration at the end of the pandemic during 2020. Last year,...
Aaugmented reality interface Organic Access as part of Steirischer Herbst 2024, the Werner Fenz Grant for Art in Public Space. Vernissage: 27. 9.24 6pm-8pm Exhibition: 28.9.–13.10.2024 Tue–Sun 10:00–18:00 Forum Stadtpark Stadtpark 1 8010 Graz Over the course of three years, Kunst Heimat Kunst unfolded as a series of interventions in different parts of the world where the invited artists resided. The idea of the project was to delocalize an art exhibition, asking artists…
CRACKS ON THE FAÇADE This text is about the ongoing events at the Open Air Museum of Decoloniality. Cracks have appeared in the media, at Alexandrplatz, in many places, and beautiful façades. Spaces of conversation about german, russian, french colonialisms are confronted by spaces of “beauty”. Dr. Chang Gao @gao.chang_rca and Jess Aszodi @jessicaaszodi made a performance Desire, AI and Public Itimacy working with hegemonies of public spaces and ideologies. A person walking into…
Robotics Speaking for the Speechless June 8th, Saturday 20:00-20:30 IKSK_ Institut für Köperforschung und Sexuelle Kultur Holzmarkt 25 Haus 2, 4. Etage, 10243 Berlin, Germany Chang will give a presentation of the work and related research on June 8th, 20:00-20:30 at IKSK. Dr. Chang Gao (@gao.chang_rca) is a Berlin and Londn based Artist, a visiting Lecturer teaching at University of Art London. Chang holds a PhD from the Royal…
Contribution for Itinerant Space: Augmented Reality Interface Erotic Poetics_2023 Project title: Using Supernormal Stimuli and Eroticism in the production of Artwork: An Experiment in Countering Cultural Hegemony in Public Space This is a practice-led research project topic overlaps the fields across psychology, politics, philosophy, sexuality, and art. It critically exams if the use of sexuality (specifically evolutionary psychology theory of supernormal stimuli and Eroticism) in the production of artwork can…
3. June 2024
DESIRE, AI, AND PUBLIC INTIMACY Dr. Chang Gao Artist, Lecturer, Public Art Researcher and Decolonial Scholar Performing: Dr. Chang Gao + Dr. Jess Aszodi Time: 19:00-21:00 May 26th, 2024 Location: Open Air Museum of Decoloniality (Alexander Platz), Ona Mašiotienė Room (U-Bahn exit between Friendship Fontain and Primark) Doing sound-performance in a public space at Alexanderplatz was very a stressful experience, with considering strict police controls, the uncertainty of the public…
13. May 2024
Chang Gao ECG heart rate / Film interactive installation Shower Me with Affection, ECG heart-rate sensor, film, and interactive sculpture Book of Disquiet Exhibition: WHAT YOU HEAR WHEN I SAY GRO Opening 26.04. 18h -21h Location: ((N.Y.T)) art space, Philippistraße 7, 14059 Berlin Performance: Chang Gao+ Elo Masing @kakaduuart on the opening night at 19:30h Exhibition duration: 27.04.-28.04. 15h-19h Exhibition Artists: Chang Gao, Mette Bjørndal, Florian Huber, Jens Keller…
8. May 2024
Sound Performance Can. You. Feel. My. Love? Material: Film, ECG heartrate Interactive sculpture, Sound interactive Device, Fruits, Clay Sculpture, Violin, sound and vocal. Date: April 26, 28th, 2024 Location: NYT art space, Philippistraße 7, Berlin Performers: Dr. Chang Gao + Dr. Elo Masing During the performance, the film is projected onto the background of the stage. By creating a close electricity circuit between my arms, fruits and…
19. November 2022
Date: December 8th -December 16th 2022 Opening Hour: 10am-6pm Mon-Saturday Private View: December 8th, 6-9pm Location: Battersea South Gallery, Battersea South Studio Building, Royal College of Art, 24 Howie Street, London SW11 4AY First major solo show of Chang Gao’s work in the UK, tracing her radical, diverse, transgressive, and interdisciplinary expression over eroticism and sexuality. Intimate Fantasy is Chang Gao PhD VIVA degree exhibition examines her PhD research topic…
Emotional Encounter is a hologram installation projected in public space, which serves as a tool to change people’s perception toward space and society. The work provokes the reaction of the public and allows the public to express their desire by encountering a moment of convergence between the private and the public, the day and the night, the real and the virtual. The symbolic or metaphoric meaning of the licking lips…
Book launch of ‘Representation’, an RCA Communiqué, produced by students and staff at the School of Arts and Humanities, Royal College of Art. Launch event in collaboration with Beaconsfield as part of ‘Monica Sjöö The time is NOW and it is overdue!’ 11 June-10 September 2022. With invited guests Kara Keeling (Prof. in Cinema and Media Studies, University of Chicago) and Atau Tanaka (performer and researcher in embodied musical interaction). Contributors to…
23. March 2022
EROTIC POETICS ++AR Interactive Interface Chang Gao By collaging the urban environment of Victoria Station and the projection of ketchup squeezer that symbolizes the action of ejaculation, the series Organic Access creates an opportunity for the public to encounter a moment that merges the public and the private, the virtual and the real. The location I chose for Organic Access is Victoria Station. It is the place where the city…
3. June 2021
Erotic Proximity_Speaking Poetics_Cello_better listen with headphones on 2022 The film Erotic Proximity presented a series of actions interacting between the hands and fruits, actions such as inserting, spreading, dripping, circling, squeezing, dipping, rubbing, gentle edging, squatting, honey flowing to present the multiple actions associated during sex. Liquid material like honey, milk, and yogurt, to symbolize the body liquid like sweats, sperm, ejaculation, and pleasure. The supernormal stimuli aspects of feelings…
23. May 2021
Public Intimacy-Touch Me & Hug Me When social distancing becomes the new social norms in public space, touching and hugging become luxury social interaction during the pandemic and in the post-pandemic era. After one and half year of national lockdown, this series of work Public Intimacy: Touch me and Hug me aims to invite the viewers to hug and touch the artworks and compensate the lack of touching…
27. December 2020
This series of work Intimacy Fantasy aims to remember the biggest fantasy of festive celebration at the end of the pandemic during 2020. Last year, we all experienced many difficulties. We felt horror, panic, anxiety, and depression during the national lockdown. We also preserved hope and love for a better future and the festive celebration between Christmas and New Year’s Eve. This series of artworks was made during this difficult…
2. November 2020
Speaking for the Speechless Robotic Interactive Installation, Scale：20cm (wide) x 50cm (Height) x 30cm (width) Material: 3D printing mechanics, motors, Arduino, Bluetooth receiver etc Within a political system like China, where people are restrained from expressing critical opinions, this robotic sculpture: Speaking for the speechless aims to invite the audience to type their repressed opinions and feelings and speak for their silenced voice. The inner structure (images attached) is a…
