This project analyses how individual identities contest cultural policies in repressive regimes reformulating themselves in their search for self-definition through artistic expression and queer politic strategies.

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Through the exploration of a phenomenology of the gaze focused on the body of performers and their tableau-vivant, this photo-installations project address issues inscribed in the dialectic of gaze and desire, and the search for the existentiary site of the self within the artwork and its phantasmatic voyage toward the interiority of the subject.

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The phenomenological approach reflected in this proposal deepens our understandings of how performative acts enriches collective and individual identities within a geopolitical cultural context, thus viewing the various dramatic and syntagmatic strategies as a significant contribution to the understanding of historical processes of gender formation and gender politics in contemporary China..