Peeling Cycle is a live audiovisual performance that uses endoscopic imagery, DIY laser projection, embodied gesture, and multimodal AI to examine how AI systems and regimes of visibility render Asian immigrant women artists legible through processes of detection, classification, translation, and misrecognition, while foregrounding the embodied acts of refusal, negotiation, and self-determination that challenge and reconfigure these forms of representation.
AHM, A Happy Mennn Trio, is an interdisciplinary multimedia performance trio formed by Anqi Liu, Han Zhang, and Mingyong Cheng.
The new iteration, recently performed at Calit2 and co-sponsored by the Qualcomm Institute and UC San Diego (May, 2026), expands the work through sculptural and textile installation, choreographed movement, and projection mapping, deepening its immersive environment while extending the project’s thematic exploration of embodied visibility, technological mediation, and material transformation:
The piece premiered at the Every Woman Biennial at Pen and Brush Gallery in New York City:
