Kiss it Better
(2015)A reminder of the hurt but also the healing'
-Lyn Gardner, The Guardian.
Conducted within a small group of audiences, the artist hosts an one-on-one healing ritual through approaching one audience member at a time with a question ‘which part of your body has been recently hurting, feeling uncomfortable, or injured PHYSICALLY or EMOTIONALLY? ’
The artist drinks the merbromin and give a kiss with his blood-red lips at the participant’s hurt area of skin.
Part exposed intimacy, part confession time, the artist creates a shared moment of connectiong emotional and physical invisibilities through exchanges.
The artist drinks the merbromin and give a kiss with his blood-red lips at the participant’s hurt area of skin.
Part exposed intimacy, part confession time, the artist creates a shared moment of connectiong emotional and physical invisibilities through exchanges.
concept & performance : River Lin
- Manifesta Biennial 11 (Cabaret Voltaire), July, 2016
- Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, June, 2016
- Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, April, 2016
- Chetham's Library, Manchester, July, 2015
- 1012 Gallery, Brussels, July, 20157.5 Club, Paris, June, 2015
- Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow , March 2015
- SOMA Gallery, Berlin, December 2014 (work-in-progress)
- Manifesta Biennial 11 (Cabaret Voltaire), July, 2016
- Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, June, 2016
- Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, April, 2016
- Chetham's Library, Manchester, July, 2015
- 1012 Gallery, Brussels, July, 20157.5 Club, Paris, June, 2015
- Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow , March 2015
- SOMA Gallery, Berlin, December 2014 (work-in-progress)
photo by Julia Bauer, Buzzcut Festival, Glasgow, 2015 / Jeremy Sublewsk
i, Rapid Pulse International Performance Art Festival, Chicago, 2016 /
Rockbund Art Museum, Shanghai, 2016
Choreography
My body is a public collection
(2023)My body is a queer library
(2022)My body is a queer history museum
(2019/2022)Dancing with Gutai art manifesto 1956
(2020)My body is a queer academy
(2022)20 Minutes for the 20th Century, but Asian
(2016)Transgender Exercise
(2022)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/2594e52a3a61091c05e1fd4a0fd9c0943780e8150d8ab300cfafc764e320680f/IMG_5203.jpg)
Art History on Escalators
(2021)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/7e8067c4e67aacbfc88554f1aa46f1dc9dcc579b644edcce29d7a9d5c059580f/Screen-Shot-2021-06-19-at-9.00.07-AM.png)
Is this Gutai?
(2021)
Fw: Wall-floor-window Positions
(2020)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8b8551a2a001b36dd55b510aec4365deb994aec68e3f18c6e5532060701050ce/Screen-Shot-2020-08-26-at-00.35.25.png)
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/dc03f10b2ea1052a9c9348a070139f2349ec3ba18fb8bdd7350da19c4dbf4e45/m_250514-aleks-slota-3.jpg)
River Walk
(2014)Installation / mixed media
![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a22247df11e8b368389fedde5d13de599cf00a80e0d75388465eb121ed806384/Screen-Shot-2021-10-26-at-8.47.44-PM.png)
Sleeping Series
(2019-ongoing)Live action / happening
Je suis Le Monde
(2018)
other pieces
(2015-2018)![](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/6a8e635b03487a333c8d709a85ce43f4f4e713e984d3b7c6e9581273f77f91bf/-2019-09-12-3.46.11.png)