Fluffy Cactus (Mengtai Zhang + Lemon Guo)
Fluffy Cactus creates immersive performances, films, and installations to explore interiorized socio-cultural experiences. Founded by Mengtai Zhang and Lemon Guo, both interdisciplinary artists from China with backgrounds in music, art, and emerging technology, the studio imagines VR as a space for memory sharing and time traveling, opening up alternate pasts and future whose possibilities are obscured by dominant narratives. Their award-winning VR documentary “Diagnosia", which portrays Mengtai's teenage incarceration in a military-run internet addiction camp in Beijing, has been shown at IDFA, Sundance, Oregon Shakespeare Festival, and SIGGRAPH.
Not Fog, 2017. Immersive performance. Photo courtesy of the artists.
Luna, 2019. Multichannel video installation. Photo courtesy of the artists.
Diagnosia, 2021. Virtual Reality documentary. Photo courtesy of the artists.
Loom, 2018. Immersive theater. Photo courtesy of the artists.
19980, 2017. Multichannel audiovisual installation. Photo courtesy of the artist.
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