BXBY is a hybrid film and live performance project exploring reproductive technologies in the colonial laboratory and the laboratorial colony through a multispecies consciousness. It questions the boundaries of human and nonhuman reproduction through the artist’s own body as a site of radical transformation. In Ardnamurchan, the state-sanctioned deer cull unfolds as both an act of ecological balance and a mechanism of enclosure—a governance of death in service of life. This paradox, where violence and conservation metabolise each other, resonates with BXBY’s deeper engagement with creation, preservation, and destruction as forces of the fe(male) void.
“Chang positions her hybrid body amidst technical, elemental and gustatory processes in an ongoing relation of experiment. Sampling diverse scientific methods such as IVF, biohacking, and voluntary self-touch, Chang’s performance subverts the hauntings of colonial science towards a thinking-feeling of queer, interspecies kinships and reliance.”
— Dr. Undine Sellbach.
“Always in becoming, repeatedly reorganising, the shapeless body becomes an event of physical transformation and arousal full of affect.”
— CLOT Magazine
“Soojin Chang’s Animal-Alien-Woman Makes Contact at Jerwood Space.”
— Ocula Magazine
“BXBY is a radical, semi-fictional work which explores the fusion of interspecies life.”
— FAD Magazine
Commissioned for the Jerwood/FVU Awards 2022: a collaboration between Jerwood Arts and Film and Video Umbrella in partnership with Leeds Art Gallery.
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For more information on BXBY, see the FVU page.
Installation views at Jerwood Arts by Anna Arca.