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Stretch the Body: A Conversation with Ziyun Yma Ma. @nuagergen
In this conversation, Ziyun Yma Ma reflects on the body as a site where senses, empathy, and trust are born, and as a medium that carries weight differently across performance art, modeling, and socially engaged practice. Moving between her ongoing research with female Chinese immigrant massage workers in Flushing, her earlier encounters with Shamate aesthetics and high fashion, and her broader thinking on migration and aesthetic judgment, the exchange considers how the body is shaped by labor, language, class, and survival, and how it can be returned to as a site of resistance, care, and self-recognition. The conversation closes on her wish to age with plants and to remain, for now, an explorer.
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Thank you so much April @threestonesal and @art_echive
I learned more about myself through your interview
And thank you to all the people I mentioned and didn’t mentioned in the interview
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CFGNY’s exhibition at Amant, taking inspiration from无名画会, an artist group in 1970-80s Beijing who insist on painting landscapes and non-political theme as a political stance in response to the high-pressure environment
Folk dance is where I started to fall in love with art.
So glad to perform this 花腰傣with @nyccdc.official for spring festival gala at Stony Brook University
A huge thank-you to @carol.zr for her support and invitation. This week, the “50% of Presence” team had the honor of being guest speakers in the Media and Globalization course at NYU’s Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, where we shared our creative process with the class.
Hearing feedback from people of different regions and professional backgrounds at Movement Research, and reading the students’ reflections afterward, made me feel even more deeply how, in a city of immigrants like New York, differences in language, experiences, positions, and beliefs can create barriers in communication and understanding—and how necessary it is to explore new, cross-disciplinary, more creative ways of connecting.
