Lovers 恋人

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Lovers is an art project aimed at reversing the "treatment" of homosexuality in China.

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Part of Queer East Festival 2024
Part of Image Under the Ground

Director: Wu LaobaiHonbin Zheng
Runtime: 32 Mins
Year: 2023
Country: China

Lovers is an art project aimed at reversing the "treatment" of homosexuality in China, initiated by artist Wu Laobai and gay policeman Lin Gully. In collaboration with various affirmative action organisations, counsellors and related practitioners in China, they distilled three sentences based on the Chinese Diagnosis and Classification of Mental Disorders, Third Edition (CCMD-3) and the World Health Organisation's statement, and printed them on three red vans. They set off from Shanghai and toured six cities before arriving in Beijing, where they paid unannounced visits to nine organisations that have been proven to be doing "treatment" for reversal.

The film documents the discriminatory remarks made by the counsellors/psychiatrists and the difficulties encountered by the three vans during the tour. At the same time, the film shows how we can still make connections and take action in response to the limited space.

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Wu Laobai

My name is Wu Laobai, I work as an independent artist，through artistic activism, I am skilled at revealing hidden social issues to the public via a transdisciplinary collaboration and actively addressing them according to different contexts.

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