Szu-Ying (Rising) Lai

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Belgium, Netherlands (residence), Taiwan (citizenship)
research interests: Design research, artistic research, critical design, material culture, ontology
affiliation: LUCA School of Arts / KU Leuven
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Rising Lai  is an object-based designer who extracts stories from history. From industrial products to cultural artefacts, Rising explores the complexity of human creation and curates them in a communicative manner. Through design, their work researches, contextualises, and speculates on the relationships among society, the individual, and material culture. Their works are presented in various forms, including objects, installations, videos, and writings, continuously exploring new possibilities through interdisciplinary collaboration.

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  • Crafting Desire: Queering the Red Sleep Bed (last edited: 2024) author(s): Szu-Ying (Rising) Lai This exposition is in progress and its share status is: visible to all.
    Social values are materialised by craft, becoming part of the material culture. Individuals inherit ideology by using the objects. ‘Crafting Desire: Queering the Red Sleep Bed’ is a project that explores how an artefact carries on group consciousness arranged in the domestic environment. Narrating from a queer perspective, I reveal the untold, oppressive stories of the Red Sleep Bed. Through critical making, I transform this artefact from assisting patriarchy to embracing gender diversity. Red Sleep Bed (紅眠床) is traditional Taiwanese bed furniture. As a dowry, the craft of the Red Sleep Bed documents the ideal projection of marriage from family and society – gender role, patriarchy, fertility, heterosexuality. As a bed, the design of the Red Sleep Bed entangled with Taiwanese languages, customs, and religions, affording a standard way of living.
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