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Shu Lea Cheang: FLUIDØ & I.K.U.

[FILM] “I consider sex as a political statement,” said filmmaker and media artist Shu Lea Cheang to the online magazine seditionart.com: “Sexuality is a construct, fluid gender is the norm.” Born in Taiwain, Cheang received an MA in Cinema Studies from New York University in 1979. Remaining in New York, she saw the sexual permissiveness of the 1970s give way to the AIDS epidemic of the 1980s, followed in the 1990s by the even more revolutionary rise of cyberspace. While she has been active in new media art covering multidisciplinary topics, she is best known for I.K.U. (2000), a “sci-fi porn film” that plays like Blade Runner crossed with Liquid Sky. That film brought her to the attention of Lars Von Trier, who was planning to open an arm of studio Zentropa to produce erotic films for women. That was where Cheang first conceived of FLUIDØ, which was recently completed with German backingThe film is set in the year 2060, when the AIDS virus has been eradicated. A mutation of it in certain humans is the basis for a hyper-narcotic, illegal and therefore the basis of a ferocious black market. Cheang will present both films on a weekend visit to Buffalo that concludes with an artist’s talk at the UB Dept. of Media Study’s PLASMA lecture series on Monday at 6:30pm in the UB Amherst Campus’s Center for the Fine Arts, room 112. I.K.U. screens at Squeaky Wheel on Friday, March 9 and FLUIDØ screens at Hallwalls on Saturday, March 10.

$5-$8

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Hallwalls

341 Delaware Ave.
Buffalo, NY
Phone: (716) 854-1694

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