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SUMMARY:Bluecoat: Bluecoat: Dahong Hongxuan Wang: Role Model
DESCRIPTION:\n\n\nDahong Hongxuan Wang: Role Model\n\n\n\nRole Model is an
  exhibition by Dahong Hongxuan Wang as part of our The Lives of Artists
  season. The Lives of Artists asks audiences what might be uncovered ab
 out ourselves when we listen to the testimony\, histories\, and stories of
  artists reflecting on their lives.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDahong Hongxuan W
 ang: Role Model\nFriday 3rd May - Sunday 30th June\n\nDahong Hongxuan Wan
 g\, an artist who has played the role of Anna May Wong in several of Mich
 elle Williams Gamaker’s works\, will exhibit her new film Role Models. 
 Hongxuan Wang’s new film follows the path of Anna May Wong who travelled
  to her ancestral hometown of Taishan\, Guangdong. Having been rejected by
  Hollywood in favour of actors in the racist make-up technique of yellowfa
 ce\, Wong set off on a tour of China. Reflecting back on her time in China
  and America\, Wong said “It's a pretty sad situation to be rejected by 
 the Chinese because I'm 'too American' and by American producers because t
 hey want other races to act Chinese parts.”\n\nThrough her vocal and sym
 bolic acts of resistance and critique\, Hongxuan Wang finds a role model i
 n Anna May Wong\, “a modern\, Chinese\, young female performer has final
 ly found her lifetime role model”. Role Models will feature a director-l
 ike Anna (played by Hongxuan Wang)\, who ultimately succeeds in dominating
  the whole documentary process.\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDahong Hongxuan Wang i
 s a performance\, installation and moving image artist currently based in 
 Beijing. Her practice explores the various manifestations of the "rebel bo
 dy"\, especially the female body\, amid numerous social structural violenc
 e.\n\nIn Wang’s practice\, she posits "rebellion" as a continuous way of
  life in daily life rather than an intermittent psychological state.\n\nTh
 e word rebellion connotes power hierarchy and self-esteem and is often ass
 ociated with rebellious behaviour among teenagers\, fierce but straightfor
 ward. Wang attempts to place this accidental adolescent psychology in the 
 increasingly complex social status quo and\, by amplifying this plain acti
 on\, to indicate the big or small injustices of nowadays society.\n\nBody 
 movements\, vocalisations\, facial expressions and the positional relation
 ship between objects and the body are crucial elements in her practice.\n\
 nWang is also active in Beijing as a social activity organiser. Starting f
 rom her identity and experience\, she holds events in local communities to
  establish a more direct connection with the land and the people.\n\n\n\n\
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LOCATION:Bluecoat\, School Lane\, Liverpool\, L1 3BX\, Liverpool\, United K
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