MOUNTAIN RIVER JUMP!
April – June 2022
Residency in cooperation with Theater Neumarkt
Performance with two human-controlled inflatable puppets, each 3.5 meter height
At Huge Huge, a special party by artists in residents at Sifang Art Museum, Nanjing, 2018
Bamboo sticks divination system and installation, dimensions variable
2018
Red Eyes Image courtesy of TaiKang Space
Divination cards / divination video installation / man-made fire; installation dimensions variable 2017
Lion dance, performance with an artist self-design female lion head mask, duration variable, 2019
credit:
Mountain River Jump£°performed Lioness Roars at the Force Temple, Tank Shanghai 2019
Photo by Zheng Yi
Mountain River Jump! is an artist duo founded in 2016 by twin sisters Huang Shan and Huang He, who were born in 1985. The duo has a variety of creative formats in art, often applying „divination consulting“ as a performance to examine the potential of such art medium, and to interact with the audience at the intrinsic level. With their studies into Oriental mysticism and folklore, the artists pry open the topics of identity politics, labor issues, feminism, life politics, modernity and others. They pay attention to the embodiment of mythological clues in a daily context, attempting to carry out „psychoanalysis“ of the reality, and reflecting on the materialist culture within modern China and its psychological status. Huang Shan and Huang He presently works and lives in Foshan, Guangdong.