Yajie Liang

This practice-led research aims to account for a minor painting practices which as a complex rhizomatic structure; a constant movement of 'becoming'. This will build on concerns for ‘becoming minor', through a restorative investment in animality and a queer use of time and even space, focusing on the endless metaphorical and representational violence against creatures in normative social structures, refuting the value hegemonic cultures place on normative time. In this field of conflicting, converging and generative forces and of pure intensities, the endless metaphors and representations of culture are decoded, metamorphosed, and, encountering personal narratives from minority groups, reassembled into paths of escape from the major language. My references span from legendary beasts, to time travel in scientific fiction; in pursuit of revolutionary conditions only possible through ‘becoming-animal’, testing the viability of queer as an alternative method. My intention is not to produce an unprecedented form of painting, but to examine the ability and condition of the genuine becoming-minor of painting.