Carry
Chong Gu
2025 Summer Residency
ABOUT THE PROJECT
Carry is a bare minimum mobile skeleton. Carry is bony, although bred and fed in big box stores. She is inscrutable, but certainly gay and not white. Carry presents herself with peace but is so chaotic inside (relatable), although she somehow always finds a way to lift your anxiety and/or stress when around. Known to be an elementalist, but also a minoritarian, but also a comfy couture girl—see the chaos—she’s visibly flamboyant and always answers to the dress code at every party she pulls up to. Carry is a migrant. She packs up her entire life with her all the time, belongings, goods, and garbage. Carry is perpetually overworked… Just last week (of her time on Governors Island), she’s held a colossal pot of oil for frying chicken, hauled controllers and speakers as a radio booth. She has fetched beer kegs, sold plants, misted parties. These jobs often take a toll on her and make her cranky, and so she enjoys getting massages frequently, deep tissue only of course.
Carry is an actor of disillusionment on the world’s stage of chaos. She’s no longer interested in offering rationale or imposing order; she simply performs orientation just to get by. Tending to the internal life and affective dimensions of diasporic co-inhabitation without overdetermining its content, Carry is a détournement of cargo-handling and body-assisting equipment to examine the repercussions of forced migration. She is in solidarity with migrant communities to challenge the boundaries of maintenance and entertainment in their urbanity. Carry actively resists fixed definition and identity. Her everlasting core and shapeshifting character represent queerness as a name for the range of formal, aesthetic, sensuous strategies that make difference a little knowable, visible, and digestible. Shifting away from visual descriptions of individual enlightenment, Carry works towards relational, contingent world-making with the contention that the inscrutable aesthetic modes vitalize social forms that stagnant models of subjectivity and community desperately need.
Carry is an actor of disillusionment on the world’s stage of chaos. She’s no longer interested in offering rationale or imposing order; she simply performs orientation just to get by. Tending to the internal life and affective dimensions of diasporic co-inhabitation without overdetermining its content, Carry is a détournement of cargo-handling and body-assisting equipment to examine the repercussions of forced migration. She is in solidarity with migrant communities to challenge the boundaries of maintenance and entertainment in their urbanity. Carry actively resists fixed definition and identity. Her everlasting core and shapeshifting character represent queerness as a name for the range of formal, aesthetic, sensuous strategies that make difference a little knowable, visible, and digestible. Shifting away from visual descriptions of individual enlightenment, Carry works towards relational, contingent world-making with the contention that the inscrutable aesthetic modes vitalize social forms that stagnant models of subjectivity and community desperately need.
COLLABORATORS/SUPPORT
Sponsor: Syracuse Architecture
Activation: Deli Radio, Zacarías González, Kii Kang
Documentation: Christian Hendricks, David Johnson, Deborah Garcia
Activation: Deli Radio, Zacarías González, Kii Kang
Documentation: Christian Hendricks, David Johnson, Deborah Garcia
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