How to become visible in a homogeneous society ?
at Rencontres Arles, 4th of July 2007
Liu Bolin (b. 1973) is a relative newcomer to the performance scene. A graduate -in 2001- of the central Academy of Fine Arts (CAFA) Beijing. Bolin offers performances in which body-play suggests living sculptures. His focus is on the body in its social environment: how does one merge or, on the contrary, emerge from a given sociocultural landscape? He always works in terms of the performance site, taking account of its visual and emotional elements as much as of the social codes detectable there.