Performance Art
Found Object, Photographs, Found Images
2025
In the pandemic (2021), I watched Buffy the Vampire Slayer show on Disney Plus channel on my iPhone. I proceeded to act out various martial arts scenes in the show with wooden easel after I read the New Yorker’s television critic Emily Nussbaum’s book I Like to Watch Arguing My Way Through the TV Revolution (2019). It critiqued the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer’s appropriation of the girlhood as a form of sexualized eroticized adventures of vampire huntings. It also critiqued Emily Nussbaum’s book’s thesis that the TV show Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a product of mass consumption. It supplies visual gestures and movements to argue that Buffy the Vampire Slayer is a distinctive image collections that transpire the images of boxing legend Muhammad Ali. It is through the interpretation of the quote, “Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee.” It emphasizes the words float, butterfly, sting and bee through choreographic movements. Recently, I recreated some work for research in 2025. I created this new performance art project, Various Beings. It critiques the rubber bullets, tear gas, and stun grenades employed by #Israel to attack Palestinian people in occupied #Palestine territories in 2021. The work argues that the communication systems should be united with the power relations through signs, marks and gestures (knowledge) critiquing and referencing the essay the Subject and Power by Michel Foucault. It also tackles the issues of animal rights brought up in Donna Haraway’s companion species essay: the queerness of the ducks pairing and the comparison to the dog as a companion animal to the human beings. The work critiques the suggestion/idea that dogs are unfeeling animals that have no sexual preferences within their social structures and species. It is through various performances captured on the photographs that illucidates the gestures of the #TV performance on the Buffy the Vampire Slayer (screencaptures, found images, postters) -- dismantles the powers that are visual and political on the #screen.