CUI YUXUAN 

Documentary Photography, Place, Journey

  1. Puppet Manchukuo: Echoes in the Layers of Time
  2. Divided Spaces, Dissolved Orders
  3. Deconstruct the “Tools” 
  4. Lost, Lost, Lost  失，失，失
  5. Wuchang五常，Wuchang无常
  6. Swan City-State

Space, Narrative, Installation

  1. What you will  第十二夜
  2. Love Me Tender, Bite Me True 
  3. Trespass 飞（非）地烟花
  4. 溯流 Go Upstream
  5. Jiakong, Jiakong 
  6. -Borderline as Storyline- 

Object, Text, Life, Act on Instinct  
  1. 言之凿凿 As if It's Carved in Stone
  2. Cleaning as Method  
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©2024 Cui Yuxuan

2020-2021
Archival Inkjet Print, photographic film, video 4’51’’
During the coronavirus epidemic, the Chinese government and medical institutions showed a complicated state in the treatment technology of the disease and the public's response. Based on my various residency areas during the period of the epidemic, this project starts from the perspective of the text, old images and archival as the medium, structure of urban and rural public health to conduct a series of investigation and research, and to explore how the concept of "space" represented by western gradually expand into Chinese local society, how the medical community gradually replace the natural resource community, and how traditional folk order gradually collapse by the controlled life statistics.

At the same time, the emergence of the isolation power has brought a micro-network woven by institutions, customs, and ideologies in the post-epidemic era. Under the situation that space is constantly being cut and diferentiated, the discipline and control lingering on the human body gradually become clear.

新冠疫情期间，政府和医疗机构在疫病治理技术以及民众应对方式上表现出错综复杂的状态，这种复杂性可以追溯到十九世纪上半叶传教士进入中国的时期。从宗教殖民逐渐转向世俗医学，他们在与地方传统、政府和民众的互动中达成了双向的妥协。在这个项目中，基于我在疫情期间居住过的各个地区，我试图以文献、老照片作为物证与档案材料，以影像作为媒介，通过对城乡公共卫生结构进行一系列调查，探究“空间”概念如何从西方逐渐扩展到中国地方乡土社会，原生的自然社区如何被切割、分化，逐渐被医疗社区取代，以及传统民间秩序如何在生命控制的统计数字和量化分析中逐渐瓦解。

我对城市与乡村公共医疗空间展开调研，走访了公立医院、私立医院、社区医院、诊所、重症监护室等场所，拜访了西医、中医、护士、病人、检测人员、赤脚医生、阴阳先生、出马弟子等，试图探究这种由制度、习俗、意识形态编织而成的微观网络是如何生效的。同时，伴随隔离权力的出现，我意识到在空间不断被切割和分化的情况下，萦绕在人体上的规训和控制愈发清晰。


                                    








            

            







 












      















                  






                                     

                                       
                      

       













       

       

       


“ When the first scalpel of Western medicine cuts into a Chinese body, it becomes a ‘ modern event. ' ”
Nianqun Yang: Remaking “Patients”, page 2, China Remin University Press, 2006. 


 

 

 












   







                             
       










   









                                 

                                     













     

     

     




   



“ Medicine is a social science and politics is nothing else but medicine on a large scale. ”
According to Rodolphe Virchow, cited in Jing Shao: Speech and Action: The awkward situation of medical anthropology criticism. 
Tuo Li, Yangu Chen, editor in chief of Insight, series 13 , page 115, Hebei Education Publishing, 2004.