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<font face="Arial"><font size="2"><i>Im Traum gestorben und
in der Realität erwacht,<br>
bin ich die Person in meinem Traum und ich bin ebenso
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Doku The Self – Lu Yang <br>
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</i>In der Video-Arbeit Doku The Self bezieht sich Lu Yang
auf die buddhistische Redewendung <i>Dokusho Dokushi –
Wir sterben alleine, wir werden alleine geboren.</i>
Davon leitet sich auch der Name der Figur <i>Doku</i> ab,
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<div class="moz-forward-container"><font face="Arial">Die
Transformation <i>Dokus</i> in verschiedene Formen –
sechs Inkarnationen – repräsentiert den immerwährenden
Kreislauf von Tod und Wiedergeburt, im Buddhismus und im
Hinduismus Samsara genannt. Doku existiert jenseits von
Sterblichkeit, Schwerkraft und Sexualität. Doku kann sich
immer wieder neu erfinden, kann jede Phantasiegestalt
annehmen, kann Superwoman und/oder Superman oder ein
Fabelwesen sein und sich dabei jede Art von Schönheit oder
Hässlichkeit aneignen. Dank Computerphysik und digitaler
Simulationstechnologien sind Dokus Verwandlungen
potentiell unendlich.<br>
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Death Metal und Oper sowie flackernd gleißenden
Licht-Kompositionen. 1985 in Shanghai geboren, zählt Lu
Yang zu den international einflussreichsten chinesischen
Multimedia-Künstler_innen derGegenwart. Lu Yangs Schaffen
umfasst 3D-Animationsfilme, Hologramme,
Videospiel-Installationen, Virtual-Reality-Projekte und
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In <i>Doku The Self</i>, Lu Yang refers to the Buddhist
saying <i>Dokusho Dokushi - We die alone, we are born alone</i>.
This is also the origin of the name of the character <i>Doku</i>,
Lu Yang's digital avatar.<br>
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<i>Doku's</i> transformation into different forms - six
incarnations - represents the perpetual cycle of death and
rebirth, called <i>samsara</i> in Buddhism and Hinduism. <i>Doku</i>
exists beyond mortality, gravity and sexuality. <i>Doku</i>
can reinvent itself over and over again, can take on any
fantasy form, can be Superwoman and/or Superman or a
mythical creature, and can acquire any kind of beauty or
ugliness. Thanks to computer physics and digital simulation
technologies, <i>Doku's</i> transformations are potentially
infinite.<br>
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hybrid macabre cyborgs and mutants merge with the
psychedelic explosive sound mixtures of techno, death metal
and opera, as well as flickering glistening light
compositions. Born in Shanghai in 1985, Lu Yang is one of
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