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

Lipstick

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Childhood Photo

In Lipstick, I use the simple act of applying lipstick as a performance of becoming visible. The gesture is intimate and almost ordinary, yet it also marks the face, changes the body, and exposes a desire to be seen differently. I am drawn to lipstick as both surface and signal: fragile, excessive, gendered, and difficult to hide once applied. Through repetition and attention, the work turns this everyday object into a small ritual of transformation, vulnerability, and self-claiming.

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