Artist | Chu LingJung Work | Defiance in Nude Year | 2024 Materials | On-site performance, Chair, Clothing, Grey Fabrics, Clock, Bucket, Soap, Bowl, Razor, Glue, Brush, Ceramic Bowl, Menstrual Cup, Menstrual Blood, Body, Scissors Regarding oneself, we carry out an event-based narrative like a written script while describing the status of an individual escaping from one’s self-consciousness as the core event. We set out to explore the possibility of such a practice in formulating a naturalistic life experience. Through the identity of being a female, I utilized the physiological sensitivity towards time and life perception to steer my self-being against the current of a naturalistic life path. The content of this work, “Defiance in Nude” consists of five chapters which are “Control of Birth”, “The Identity of Clothes”, “Incremental Elongation of Time”, “Physiological Dominance”, and “The Birth of Consciousness”. Concepts of Each Chapter of the Work “Control of Birth” The birth of life is determined by the physiological mechanisms of the maternal body. I will explore the interactive relationship between time and the control of birth. If the act of one's own birth is continuously repeated, Would the repeatedly born individual continuously reconstruct and deconstruct themselves? Or would they constantly expand their self-awareness to alter their perception of the world? Is this a method of seeking complete control over one's own life within the birth of consciousness? “The Identity of Clothes” Clothing becomes an interpretation that substitutes for the appearance of the body. The relationship between wearing clothes, washing clothes, and washing the body, Can an individual, through the reconstruction of clothing, be transformed into a compressed, time-symbolic entity, thereby altering the relationship with their body? From the beginning of life, is the experiential layering and practice of clothing and the body an attempt to disrupt the pre-existing constructed relationship and changes between objects and the body? “Incremental Elongation of Time” Can we prove our control over the right to our own body by changing its appearance? Is there something that can be seen as evidence of time, reattaching itself to the body? Combining two forms of life experiences allows time to shape the body in different ways and endows the overlapping experiences with new meaning.This experiential phenomenon attaches to the body, causing the body's experiences to overlap, as if reconstructing a life experience.This is a method of fragmenting and reassembling one's own experiences, exploring whether uncontrollable physiological experiences, when overlapped, can provide a crafted presentation of one's perception of the process of life growth. Do the accumulated experiences of individuals of different genders suggest a merging of lives?The essentialization of gender and the socially interpreted female image—what do these symbolically generated conscious experiences reconstruct within the body? “Physiological Dominance” Does the control of physiological phenomena demonstrate a resistance to the natural experience of life? Women’s inability to fully control the likelihood of pregnancy after sexual intercourse—does it lead to a fear of childbirth? The torn cloth becomes a form of life expression in the process of self-embryogenesis. Does the incomplete embryo—the placenta—provoke thoughts of identity shift in women? Is having an autonomous abortion and being forced to abort a form of self-destruction that expresses self-redemption from essentialist phenomena? “The Birth of Consciousness” The cloth wipes away those experiential symbols considered human; materials entwine within it, detaching from essential symbols to become a new consciousness.This is also the birth of a new consciousness, where women depart from their essentialized bodily appearance. Is this a phenomenon formed by a new kind of humanity's physiological denial of essentialized appearances? Staff Director / Producer ｜Tzu-I, Chan Director of Photography ｜Tzu-I, Chan B Camera Operator｜Zi-Xian, Tang Editor / Colorist｜Tzu-I, Chan Sound Mixer｜Bochennnnn23 Graphic Designer｜Wu yu cih Photographer｜Kim Special Thanks Chen Siao Chi Chen Jui Tsai Po Hsun Chen Absence Space