Ziyue Shang 商子岳

I’m an ethnographer and performance artist currently pursuing a Master in Design Studies in Publics at the Harvard Graduate School of Design. Before that, I graduated from University College London (UCL) with first-class honours in Global Humanitarian Studies.

My research interests lie at the intersection of multimodal anthropology, body/embodiment, queer/gender politics, and the socialist state. My current work explores the formation of queer subjectivities in relation to socialist moral ideology, asking how state-produced moral values are embodied, negotiated, and unsettled in everyday life. I am exploring ways of responding to this question through ethnographic research on performance art (行为艺术 xingwei yishu) and live art (现场艺术 xianchang yishu) communities, while also attending to broader forms of queer public culture, including ballroom, dance, digital shorts, and other vernacular media and bodily practices.

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Performance Art 行为&现场
  1. Everything is FINE!
  2. Solidarity is the POWER 团结就是力量
  3. Lipstick
  4. Hand in Hand, At Play
  5. Underground Park Mushroom Hop
  6. Jumping the Long Rope
  7. Same but Difference (Spring Equinox)
  8. Towards Dirt
  9. Go Round and Round
  10. Radio Calisthenics

Voice from the Community 社区&声音
  1. ‘Praising‘ Colonialism
  2. Qingdao Zhongshan Road
  3. Hague Mothers
  4. Lines That Almost Meet
  5. Vagina Monologue Series (in-progress)

Creative Writing 写作
  1. Autoethnography (in-progress)

Public Engagement & Academic Conference 展览&会议&其他
  1. Rebuilding: Sites/Sights of East Asia: 31th Columbia GradCon
  2. EXPERIMENT: Rethinking Representation, Methods, & Knowledge American Ethnological Society (AES) Spring Conference
  3. DIRT: NSSR Anthropology Graduate Student Conference
  4. IMPACT: Durham Anthropology Graduate Student Conference

Hague Mothers



Hague Mothers
Video Advocacy for Legal Reform
The term Hague Mother refers to a mother who has experienced international child abduction, typically under circumstances governed by the Hague Convention on the Civil Aspects of International Child Abduction. These mothers often face legal, emotional, and social challenges in attempting to secure the return of their children ot their country of habitual residence.

As part of UCLs' module IRDR0048 Violence, Intersectionality and Marginalization, we created multimedia projects to raise awareness about mothers fleeing domestic abuse but forced to return children due ot international custody treaty. We combined interviews, narratives, and visual storytelling into advocacy videos and legal papers, distributing them through a dedicated webpage





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