Duruo Wang ~ Keywords: shared vulnerability, under/trans-material, fugitivity, topographical resistance, abstraction, space-interval, collective unlearning, friendship as a mode of (un/re)production

Duruo Wang (杜若) is a writer and artist based in Chongqing and Guizhou. Their work is concerned with the shared vulnerability and resistance within an under/trans-material condition of fugitivity. Through embodying the topographical resistance in mountainous Southwest China and examining the phantom form of linguistic abstraction in cultural production, their current research explores the tension between the relative space-intervals that sustain modes of existence otherwise and the dominant power in crisis that seeks refuge in and dispossession of them. In parallel, their practice is also interested in facilitating a 'gossipy' study zone for collective unlearning, along the condition of friendship as a mode of (un/re)production that disenchants the mystery of self-determined and self-possessed knowledge and subjectivity.

Duruo completed an MA in Art Praxis at the Dutch Art Institute in 2019. From 2019-2021 they worked as an assistant researcher at the Institute of Network Society, China Academy of Art. They have long been a community contributor at Organhaus (Chongqing). Duruo’s other collective work includes the Con(tra)cave, Eurasia Underground Library and its branch, the Belly Button Conference, and the Drifting Collective (蹓搭, liu-da). 

Duruo@DAI:

Learn more about Duruo Wang’s 20 minute presentation (The Title Is Waiting To Be Named) for "AEROPONIC ACTS  - growing roots in air" DAI's annual 3-day performance lectures marathon, May 2019 at Silent Green in Berlin.

Learn more about Duruo Wang’s written MA thesis (DAI, 2019): What’s Your Name? From Cooked-Raw Barbarian to Raw-Cooked Again

Folow Duruo’s "Life after DAI" through their Instagram