

Massage Baby! is a video work in which the artist performs a Chinese female massage worker, drawing from her own encounters with Chinese massage workers in New York and from footage and audio gathered during filming. Structured around a staged documentary setup, the work begins as an interview requested by a filmmaker who wants her to speak about massage labor, then gradually slips as observation turns intimate and the boundary between documentation, service, and projection starts to blur.
Directed by Ke Zhang (USA)