Hotlink Collapse
Crassula Shang

Hotlink Collapse is a 3-channel video essay on Chinese cyberfeminism, ghostly data, and embodied digital amnesia. It features a sequence of four technosocial and environmental speculations on the conditions of Chinese cyberfeminism: a journey through a dark space tunnel in search of feminist caches; a flying ant, unsatisfied with its poor vision, attempting to see the complete picture of its colony from above; a pile of Macintosh Classics playing a fragmented cyberfeminist chronicle composed of known and lesser-known historical materials; and a matrix of static, genderless infants flowing overseas. This video is an elegy for cyborgs who died a digital death and bodies compelled to become cyborgs.

(contact info: crassulashang@proton.me)



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Born in the space-time distortions of the Internet, Crassula Shang is a digital artist, archivist, and writer who carries her grandmother's surname, the spectral traces of post-socialist history, and an ambivalent view on feminist techno-fantasy.



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