J Jiang

J Jiang, b.2000, Shanghai. Lives nomadically between metropolises.  BFA, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, 2023. MFA. Ruskin School of Art, University of Oxford, 2026.  Jiang creates situations through on-site experimentation. They treat their work as a human archive.  They investigate how the qualities that differentiate humans from machines shape the foundation of future knowledge production. Performance scores, bodily protocols, discursive texts, rhizomatic diagrams, and provisional materials are grounding tools. Through making, Jiang attempts to resolve their relationship with AI in the cybernetic age.  In opposition to machine-provided control and transparency, Jiang is interested in how the human orders that coexist with paradox, withdrawal, and liminality produce authenticity, circulation, trust, and epistemic legitimacy. Their research begins by identifying enigmatic subjects in real life: social phenomena, established regulations, and materialized inventions. Through these subjects, Jiang explores what remains stubbornly human in a world increasingly shaped by data-based prediction, automation, and classification. In their work, one may experience sensorial stimulation through blinking lights, encounter a ladder that cannot be climbed, or spot a six-fingered Mickey Mouse hand hanging from an IV stand. 

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