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In artists, status anxiety is a personal research project that I started in 2022, focusing on mental anxieties of contemporary art and artists, and those labeled as intellectuals and self-proclaimed intellectuals, including myself. The research extends from my previous art writing, “Knowledge Anxiety of Contemporary Elites.” It aims to speculatively think whether this anxiety is a common psychological state within contemporary knowledge systems and explore the connection between personal and artistic identity. The opening chapter exhibition titled “In artists, status anxiety (2024)” take place in Hong Kong, and a collection of art-writing book titled “I mentioned during an fine art major interview that I was reading books by ancient Greek poets and I got the offer. At that moment, I felt disgusting.”
Main research interests:
- ・Status, knowledge, identity anxiety
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・Intellectualism, anti-intellectualism and elitism
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・The Nature of the Soul, God and Wisdom
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・Media and information manipulation in today's society