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…

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…

      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…

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…

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…

FILM EROTIC PROXIMITY

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…

    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…

Intimate Fantasy

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…

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…

Public Intimacy-Feel Me

29. October 2020

Public Intimacy-Feel Me In a hyper-digital world of post-pandemic era, where social distancing becomes the social normal in public space, the concept of public intimacy and sense of touch become luxury concepts. Art as a self-communicative language, this series of ongoing project Public Intimacy-Feel Me tries to build a self-connection between the artworks themselves in relation to the viewers. That self-connection shared is a measure of joy and playfulness which…

Hug Me and Touch Me

10. September 2020

  Public Intimacy-Touch Me & Hug Me When social distancing become the social norms in public space, touching and hugging become luxury social interaction during the pandemic. After 1 year lockdown, couldn’t resist the impulse for making sculptures aiming for hugging and touching. Not big but satisfying. #Touchmeandhugme #sensousdesire #humanganitals #supernormalstimuli #studiowork #sculpting

This series of works explores the tension between human emotions in relation to human physical changes,memory and urban spaces. By putting the city landscape like architectures or public artworks into alcohol bottles, it meant to invite the viewers to recall the taste of each city. The installation invites the audience to take different types of alcohol while providing the multiple city symbols on the installation screen. By choosing the different…

In this particular period of struggle against a global pandemic, Chinese and European governments employed completely opposite policies in terms of epidemic prevention. People in different cultural environments also have opposite attitudes towards treating epidemics and wearing masks, etc. The political, cultural and social difference gave me a great cultural shock.  Public Intimacy is a double-solo exhibition created around individual experience in public space. “Public gatherings” and “Public Intimacy” have become…