An Alien’s Desperation

Wednesday 4/10, 7pm, Free

Sophy Chang’s installation and performance project, ‘An Alien’s Desperation,’ is inspired by the sense of alienation⋆˚༎ຶ⋆. and fear experienced in New York City when viral anger targeted ◎Asians during the COVID-19 pandemic ✺.

These experiences led her, as an Asian, to question whether she is regarded as fundamentally the same as other humans. They intensified the fear of being labeled “the other” and living in this disharmonious worldஇ as a human, eventually giving birth to a clownish alien.

The clownish alien desperately performs, stamping around with its loud෴ shoes, reaching out for love, pushing the audience away with spiked creatures✧, looking for closeness, and scaring them with its wandつ─☆*.

About the Artist

Sophy Chang, a South Korean-born project-based artist working in soft sculpture, installation, performance, video, painting and more. She visualizes her fluid evolving self♫•*¨*•.¸¸♪ in her own playful and whimsical way.

Currently, she lives and works in Delaware, United States. She holds a BFA degree from the School of Visual Arts (NY, 2019) and is expected to receive her MFA from University of Delaware (DE, 2024.) Her work has been shown in various countries across the world, including South Korea, China, the U.S., Chile, and Switzerland.