Little Red (b.1993 China) combines aspects of performance and object making in her practice. She received her foundation degree The Central Academy of Fine Arts China in 2015 and a Fine Art bachelor’s degree at Kingston School of Art in 2018. Before enrolling on the MFA she established a ceramic jewelry studio in JingDeZhen, Jiangxi, China.
Performance art, installation, ceramics and painting are incorporated in a practice that is both durational and conceptual. In her performance entitled One Hundred Possibilities of One Hundred Things in One Hundred Days she posted one hundred updates per day over one hundred days on the social media platform WeChat. The updates recorded a completed task and included for example cooking, ceramics, digital painting and collaging pantone colour testers all as part of a process of recording life and art as a series of scripted tasks. Time and experience during the lockdown were measured out through these tasks and the recording and posting of them. The work is a means of exploring her concerns with labour, mass production and her bi-polar condition. This in turn led to her thinking about how art might be mass produced through this process of mimicking (on a small scale) the organised labour common in Chinese factories and workplaces. What results are objects such as 1,000 ceramic objects, 10,000 arrangements of pantone-testers, 100 different breakfasts and 100 different lunches. The performances are primarily concerned with process and how restrictions can give rise to calm and the potential for thought. The objects and social media posts exist as a material residue and trace of these performances in the gallery and online.