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This is in fact related to one of the Hijack Field Club videos, you can probably guess which one I'm going to be covering there

Happy New Year! Thanks to BADCATBAD for answering my questions. It’s been fun hijacking with everyone and building this city of ours. Also, Australians, it’s your time to shine! The exhibition closes April 13, 2025, so go visit before it's too late! Please share clips/photos!

For Touhou fans, cosplay and hijacks are a way to patch discontent with the world of Gensokyo. And as seen here and with other examples I’ve covered, this has been quite successful. Like Cao Fei, Touhou fans have built their own ecosystems wherever they are around the world.

Cosplayers (2004) is also exhibited. In a 2008 interview, Cao Fei says that cosplayers “let the characters replace themselves in their everyday lives and routines...[reflecting] the younger generation’s discontent with their actual roles in real life.”
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The final production cuts between all the scenes filmed across Sydney with many different people. Marisa and the rest of the cosplayers pop up at various times.
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The project had a casting call for cosplayers. BADCATBAD applied with a photo of her Marisa cosplay and was accepted. This costume was hand-made out of cotton, making it very easy to wear and dance in.
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The Marisa cosplayer is Australian cosplayer BADCATBAD (www.instagram.com/badcatbad_/). She, along with cosplayers Spreekit as Seraphine (League of Legends) and taoruwu.cos as Ahri (League of Legends), were featured in the video, filmed at Million Life Sydney.
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The Sydney edition (“Chinatown Shuffle”) was directly commissioned by the Art Gallery of New South Wales. The video features 60+ people of all ages dancing in more than 20 different Sydney locations opened up by local store owners and organizations.
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Hip Hop: Sydney is part of the Cao Fei's Hip Hop series featuring music videos of Chinese communities dancing in different cities. Previous parts were in Guangzhou (2003), Fukoka (2005), and New York (2006).
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The exhibition had an opening weekend event hosted by the Sydney Manga and Anime Show (SMASH), which ran a cosplay catwalk and a workshop. Cosplayers had free entry on November 30th and December 1st.
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Cao Fei is no stranger to working with cosplayers. One of her most notable pieces is her 2004 work “COSplayers,” showing young cosplayers in Guangzhou going about their days in various parts of the city.
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Submitted by yukko
Cao Fei is an artist focusing on the rapid transformation of China, both culturally and economically, during the 30 years of her career. Her exhibition is an open cityscape of different screens, digital installations, and settings.
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