Performance

Sensitive Words

Year: 2010
Medium: Performance; online and on-site experimental exhibition
Location: Beijing

Poster forthcoming. Painting used as a temporary replacement image: Scooping Up the Moon No. 03 · 2010 — Poster forthcomingTemporary replacement imageScooping Up the Moon No. 03 · 2010

Qiming Liu wearing a mask bearing the Chinese words “敏感词” (Sensitive Words). — Sensitive Words, performance documentation, 4 June 2010 (date from the source filename).

A vertical photographic montage of Qiming Liu and participants wearing masks in Sensitive Words. — Sensitive Words, photographic montage supplied as performance documentation, 2010.

The artist’s CV lists Sensitive Words as an experimental exhibition combining online activity and live performance in Beijing in 2010.

The supplied photographic records show Liu wearing a mask bearing the words “敏感词” (Sensitive Words), together with a vertical montage of the artist and other participants wearing masks. In these images, text appears at the mouth, where speech would ordinarily emerge.

The surviving records date the performance to 4 June 2010.