Performance⊹
Thesis⊹
Asian Queer narrative⊹
The Healing of Becoming
Queer hybridity, cyborg flesh, and reimagining of belong in Asian future
꧁⊹☾ ☽⊹꧂The Healing of Becoming: Queer Hybridity, Cyborg Flesh, and the Reimagining of Asian Queer Futures rethinks the image of the cyborg. It aims to imagine a world where broader, more inclusive possibilities can take shape.
It is no longer a flawless, high-tech body, but a hand-stitched, constantly mending, repairing, and self-healing being.
Drawing from cyberfeminism, queer theory, and lived experiences of Asian queer community in the Netherlands, this work explores how technology, identity, and belonging can be reassembled, regenerated, and reconnected within the fragments of everyday life.
At the heart of this piece is the Cyborg Dress, lies a low-tech installation, made from partly reclaimed materials and simple circuits. Feathers, wires, and worn fabrics are slowly woven together in imperfect gestures that embody vulnerability, repair, and resilience, woven together with personal and communal stories. The interactive elements are powered by a visible Arduino system, emphasizing transparency and tactility over seamless illusion. It was never meant to be complete; it carries contradictions and chaos, moving fluidly across multiple spectrums.
The performance begins with a live reading of a poem in Mandarin and concludes with its English counterpart— a self-dialogue of a mythical hybrid creature with no record in history.
This being formed from fragmented identities and memories, reflects on soul, freedom, existence, and the ongoing process of becoming.
In the end, it continues an instinctive act of self-healing: through weaving, different Asian queer stories in the Netherlands are intertwined, continuing a dialogue with the self that embodies openness, regeneration, and the beauty of being unfinished.
This work focus on a belief in imperfection and multiplicity as forms of resistance against binary worlds. This cyborg flesh does not seek stability, but finds balance within imbalance. It falters, wears down, and is sewn back together. This is a living state, a quiet refusal of the so-called “perfect body.”
It proposes a kind of technology grounded in accessibility, repairability, and touch — a queer, low-tech future built through acts of sharing, mending, and care.
Here, _becoming_ is not an endpoint but a continuous practice of repair and coexistence. It's a space for those who live in-between, who never quite fit in, who are still figuring things out, and who rebuild ways of living with tenderness, persistence, and vulnerability.
It is no longer a flawless, high-tech body, but a hand-stitched, constantly mending, repairing, and self-healing being.
Drawing from cyberfeminism, queer theory, and lived experiences of Asian queer community in the Netherlands, this work explores how technology, identity, and belonging can be reassembled, regenerated, and reconnected within the fragments of everyday life.
At the heart of this piece is the Cyborg Dress, lies a low-tech installation, made from partly reclaimed materials and simple circuits. Feathers, wires, and worn fabrics are slowly woven together in imperfect gestures that embody vulnerability, repair, and resilience, woven together with personal and communal stories. The interactive elements are powered by a visible Arduino system, emphasizing transparency and tactility over seamless illusion. It was never meant to be complete; it carries contradictions and chaos, moving fluidly across multiple spectrums.
The performance begins with a live reading of a poem in Mandarin and concludes with its English counterpart— a self-dialogue of a mythical hybrid creature with no record in history.
This being formed from fragmented identities and memories, reflects on soul, freedom, existence, and the ongoing process of becoming.
In the end, it continues an instinctive act of self-healing: through weaving, different Asian queer stories in the Netherlands are intertwined, continuing a dialogue with the self that embodies openness, regeneration, and the beauty of being unfinished.
This work focus on a belief in imperfection and multiplicity as forms of resistance against binary worlds. This cyborg flesh does not seek stability, but finds balance within imbalance. It falters, wears down, and is sewn back together. This is a living state, a quiet refusal of the so-called “perfect body.”
It proposes a kind of technology grounded in accessibility, repairability, and touch — a queer, low-tech future built through acts of sharing, mending, and care.
Here, _becoming_ is not an endpoint but a continuous practice of repair and coexistence. It's a space for those who live in-between, who never quite fit in, who are still figuring things out, and who rebuild ways of living with tenderness, persistence, and vulnerability.
《蛻變的療癒：酷兒混融、賽博肉身與亞洲酷兒未來的再想像》重新思考「賽博格」的意象。它不再是高科技、完美無瑕的身體，而是一個被手工縫補、持續修復並且自我療癒的存在。作品從賽博女性主義、酷兒理論與亞洲酷兒的生活經驗出發，探索科技、身份與歸屬如何在破碎的日常中被重新組裝、再生與連結。
作品的核心是一件由低科技材料製作而成的賽博格服裝／裝置，由部分回收材料與簡易電路構成。羽毛、回收電線與舊布料以緩慢且不完美的勢態編織在一起。這些象徵著修復與持續存在的韌性。作品中的互動由可見的 Arduino 系統驅動，強調技術的透明與觸感，而非無縫的幻象。它從來不是完滿的，它充滿矛盾與混亂，並在多元的光譜中流動。
表演以一首中文詩的現場朗讀開場並以英文詩收尾。這是一段史無記載的混種生物的自我對話。這個由碎片化的自我認同與記憶組成的形體，思索著靈魂、自由、存在與不斷成為的過程。表演的最後，它繼續做著自我療癒的本能：編織，同時也把不同的荷蘭亞洲酷兒故事交織在一起，並持續與自我對話著，象徵再生的開放性與未完成性。
作品理念是以不完美及多元作為一種對於二元對立世界的抵抗。這個賽博肉身並不追求穩定，而是在失衡中找到平衡。它會錯誤、會磨損、會被重新縫補。這是一種活著的狀態，一種對「完美身體」的拒絕。
它提出一種以可接近性、可維護性與觸感為基礎的技術形式。這是一種由共享、修補與關懷構築的酷兒式低科技未來。在這裡，「成為」是一種持續修復與共生的行動；是為那些活在邊緣之間、持續縫補、用溫柔、堅定與脆弱的力量重構生存方式的人們所開啟的空間。
作品的核心是一件由低科技材料製作而成的賽博格服裝／裝置，由部分回收材料與簡易電路構成。羽毛、回收電線與舊布料以緩慢且不完美的勢態編織在一起。這些象徵著修復與持續存在的韌性。作品中的互動由可見的 Arduino 系統驅動，強調技術的透明與觸感，而非無縫的幻象。它從來不是完滿的，它充滿矛盾與混亂，並在多元的光譜中流動。
表演以一首中文詩的現場朗讀開場並以英文詩收尾。這是一段史無記載的混種生物的自我對話。這個由碎片化的自我認同與記憶組成的形體，思索著靈魂、自由、存在與不斷成為的過程。表演的最後，它繼續做著自我療癒的本能：編織，同時也把不同的荷蘭亞洲酷兒故事交織在一起，並持續與自我對話著，象徵再生的開放性與未完成性。
作品理念是以不完美及多元作為一種對於二元對立世界的抵抗。這個賽博肉身並不追求穩定，而是在失衡中找到平衡。它會錯誤、會磨損、會被重新縫補。這是一種活著的狀態，一種對「完美身體」的拒絕。
它提出一種以可接近性、可維護性與觸感為基礎的技術形式。這是一種由共享、修補與關懷構築的酷兒式低科技未來。在這裡，「成為」是一種持續修復與共生的行動；是為那些活在邊緣之間、持續縫補、用溫柔、堅定與脆弱的力量重構生存方式的人們所開啟的空間。
蛻變的療癒
酷兒混融、賽博肉身與亞洲酷兒未來的再想像