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The Price of Blood: Zhang Huan’s 65 Kilograms and China’s HIV/AIDS Crisis

Lecture/seminar

This lecture revisits Zhang Huan’s 65 Kilograms (1994), a visceral performance in which the artist hung suspended while his blood slowly dripped onto a hot plate, filling the room with the smell of coagulation. Situating the performance within China’s 1990s plasma economy and the HIV/AIDS…