Shannan Hu

If you ask a friend about me, they would say I am a designer doing graphic and branding design. I am also an artist. My artwork is related to relationships, memories, moments and nature. When I ask myself who I am, I don't know how to define it. I don't know myself very well.

I used to define myself in a specific relationship: I am a daughter, a lover, a friend and so on. Now I am quite open to perceiving and understanding rather than defining myself. If I say I'm a mushroom, then I am so.

I am still thinking…

Yes. I am a mushroom, I am a human, I am a ladybug, I am the grass under human feet. I am a slow-moving cloud in the sky. I say what I am, and I have possibilities to be them. I am the possibility. I am fearless. Now you can call me Shannan.

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I am a practitioner of death

Killing my past self

Reborning a new one

The past is never worth mentioning!

If I have to mention

My life has different stages

In each stage

I feel it is like happened to someone rather than me

I congratulate myself!

Just look at me now

I’m very well, thank you!

This is me!

Also…

You could only know me in the present moment

Because in the next moment

I might kill myself

And becoming someone else

Shannan's Funeral

Download "Shannan's Diary Download" (PDF)

Medium: Performance, Video, booklet, book

Size: variable

‘Feed me’ is performance in which I printed my own face, 2.4m in size, stitched as a balloon and cut open the mouth.

‘Feed me’ comes from my experience of living between the ages of 25 and 28, when I was in a phase of constant expansion, and needed to feed myself. The piece performs a struggle with my own desires. The work is also reflected in my response to the Shannan’s Funeral at age 28.

See the article It's too late published on Content Free

Medium: Performance

Size: Variable

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In the context of our recognition of the existence of 'time', a concept created by human beings, speed and efficiency are over-praised and over-hyped in capitalism and neoliberalism. We exploit nature and others, as well as our selves. Faster iteration, more efficient work and life are seen as the new meaning of existence.

Slowness is a natural way of perceiving the world around us. We spend too much time adorning memories of the past and fantasies of the future to the neglect of the present. When we remember and imagine the picture of our lives, what we can describe is often feelings and emotions in the moment. Moments are more the means by which we carry our lives and are not linear time.

My work focuses on the feeling and creation of moments, in which time is neglected, but the interconnection between people, nature, material, objects are given the opportunity to be revealed.

Medium: Video

Size: Variable