A still from a film which shows a blurred emergency exit light above a door in a dark corridor.

Programme:

Art - PhD/MPhil

Start date:

September 2024

Mode of study:

Full time

Research title:

Skin Without Border: Exploring ‘shape-shifting’ through multi-sensory moving image practice

Biography

Wei Zhou (b.1993, she/they) is a Chinese filmmaker and artist based in Glasgow. Working primarily with moving image and text, her practice explores themes of sensory perception, embodiment, and shape-shifting myths, often through auto-ethnographic methods. She is particularly interested in non/human, eroticism, and the fluid boundaries between body, language, and image. Wei’s works have been exhibited in cities including Beijing, Changsha, Glasgow, Graz, Hamburg, and London. Her projects often create multisensory and affective environments that invite the viewer into shifting states of attention and presence. She holds an MFA from the Glasgow School of Art and an MSc in Filmmaking and Media Arts from the University of Glasgow. She is currently developing a practice-based PhD at the University of Edinburgh, researching shape-shifting through moving image practices.

Research interests

  • Artists moving image
  • Moving image installation
  • Experimental Cinema
  • Non/human and posthuman
  • Multi-sensory and eroticism