Catalogue of Ji Shengli's solo exhibition entitled 'Buttocks 123 by Hei Yue' at Vanessa Art Link in 2007. Artist Ji Shengli adopted the name "Black Moon" (Hei Yue) back in the heyday of the Yuanmingyuan artist colony. Maya Movskaya wrote, '123 Buttocks is the title of Hei Yue's ongoing performance art series, acclaimed in the US and China, as well as Japan. Incorporating elements of humour with figures of authority and questions of propriety, Hei Yue's performances employ a cheeky method to pose a serious question: "who has the right to discipline and punish?" Wearing pants specially designed to reveal his buttocks, Hei Yue appears before various symbols of power, authority and tradition, and spanks himself repeatedly: policemen, Buddhist monks, Japanese fishermen in traditional (and more notably, butt-revealing) garb, a stern elderly Japanese man and more.' Artist biography is provided in the catalogue.
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Chinese - Simplified, 

English

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2007

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73

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Nil

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2

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artist monograph, 

catalogue

Chapter headings

Hei Yue: Ji Shengli - FANG Lijun, 方力鈞

Cultural Capital: Black Moon Rising: Discipline, Punishment and Loads of Laughs - Maya KOVSKAYA

The Rhetoric of the Buttocks: About the Body Art of Hei Yue - ZHANG Zhaohui, 張朝暉

Hei Yue · Ji Shengli
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Hei Yue · Ji Shengli, 黑月‧季勝利