Jiaoyang li

A Cute Pain Hello Kitty is cute precisely because she has no mouth to express herself with. We’re meant to project our own emotions onto her, which makes her the ideal cute companion, according to Sanrio’s logic. Maybe Hello Kitty is in deep pain, but her lack of a mouth prevents her from voicing this to us. All we know is that she’s cute, but what if Hello Kitty could talk? Perhaps if Hello Kitty went to art therapy, it would look like this exhibit. Curated by Jiaoyang Li and presented at Accent Sisters, The Archaeology of Cute ✦ The Monument of Pain explores “cuteness” as a portal for rebellious and uncontrollable sensations which defy neatly outlined categories or diagnoses. Artists: Shi/贲鸣珂 @fushitsusha   Sherly Fan @sherlyfanstudio   Liming Lin @liming_lin_is_a_hero Jingyi He @shishipoketontsu   Kumako Lizzy Choi @lizzychoi   Yang Hsu He  Jingyuan Yang @yangjingyuan0923 Yi Chen (Natsume) @natsume.cy Written by @mareenae [FULL ARTICLE SABUKARU LINK IN BIO]

“My ancestors kept their house key in the same jar where they kept their medicine. They truly believed this could heal their pain and nostalgia.”Limelight Poetry‘s first event: The conversation between Nikola Madzirov and Patricio Ferrari #limelightpoetry

Join us for the performance taking place in a bathhouse! @othership Williamsburg location （25 Kent Ave) Wednesday 8/27 💥5-6:15pm. 💥 Co-presented by @cultureofbathing and @chinatownbasketballclub 🩱 Swimsuit required :) ⏰ No late entry – please arrive 15 min prior to the event 🎟️ Ticket link in bio! Some clips from our rehearsal + film clips for inspiration! And site visits:)! All none film sound is by @siyichenmusic and @milam.music 🥹🦋🫶🏽 We’ve been massaging these ideas for too long!! Now finally come to live! I will be doing a Tai Chi-Basketball inspired movements in the heat:) @jylllllll___ will lead a time-travel poetry reading in sauna session with Guzheng music by @siyichenmusic ; @empjoyonline ‘s interactive video installation will mirror our energy in visual! Along with @milam.music ‘s immersive sound embedded in cold plunge aims to unfold our body. This will be an experience with extreme heat, cold, sound and visual experience created by us:) Hope you can join us. we also have a surprise instrument performance at the end🫶🏽 more about the event: 湯Tāng - bathing 棠Táng - crabapple flower (shaped like Yang Guifie’s legendary bath) 淌Tǎng - fluidity flow 燙Tàng - heat TāngTángTǎngTàng (湯棠淌燙): Performative Rituals in Flow to explore and reinterpret the shared ethos of movement, ritual, and the Chinese concept of Qi. You can read more about it on Culture of Bathing Substack: (link in bio) Intrigue, opulence and murder: the tale of a legendary bathing beauty by Lu Zhang Tech, intimacy and tradition collide in contemporary Chinese bathing by Jiaoyang Li Featured Artists: @jylllllll___ – Poet and multimedia artist, co-founder of @accentsisters 🦋 @empjoyonline – Multimedia artist and designer🪷📹 @wetdreamsneverend – CBC @chinatownbasketballclub co-creator and artist🏀 Music by @siyichenmusic 🐉 and @milam.music 🪼 Graphic by @nany_xyc 🦄 Video 2/4 Yang Guifei, Dir. Chen jialin, 1992 Video 6 Green Snake, Dir. Tsui Hark, 1993 Video 9 In the Heat of the Sun, Dir. Jiang Wen, 1994

Opening an underground bookstore/ cultural space with @hongru_pan_ and publishing @helloyasmine ’s book. I guess I can die 📖⚒ @accentsisters （photo credit: @kayothehotcookie )