Crossing Virtual Borders: Cao Fei & Lu Yang

As part of a film program for the opening of Various Others 2025, Sammlung Goetz is showing a selection of works by Chinese artists Cao Fei (*1978) and Lu Yang (*1984) in the Astor Cinema Lounge of the Hotel Bayerischer Hof.
Cao Fei's RMB City Opera (2010) is an experimental theater piece inspired by the propaganda operas of the Chinese Cultural Revolution that explores the connection between real and virtual identities. Physical and digital spaces serve as a stage for the interaction between actors and avatars.
In DOKU the Self (2022), “Doku”, Lu Yang's non-binary avatar, assumes six different virtual identities. These correspond to the six realms of existence of the Buddhist wheel of life, death and rebirth.