Ye Wuji, “Return of Plov-osh-ism — Thus Spoke a Ghost of the Plov Society”, performance
17 July 2025, 19:00
-“Eat your plov, your lips stay slick.”
-“Usma fades, your brows stay thick!”
Plov Enthusiast and current participant of the residency program, Ye Wuji, happened to run into a ghost Abduerwah from Central Asia in a cemetery somewhere in Neukölln, Berlin — and after a series of covert and bewildering exchanges in argot, Ye Wuji confirmed that Abduerwah had once been a member of a secret society. Abduerwah, in turn, revealed that he had come to Berlin in the 1940s together with the great Mustafa Shokay and had been buried there ever since. After their exchange, Ye warmly invited the ghost to Pickle Bar for a talk. In this once-in-a-while, back-from-the-dead lecture, the ghost — though he hasn’t spoken for ages — will (reluctantly) do his best to piece together whatever remains of his knowledge and share with everyone a few things about a secret society long forgotten by the living — the Central Asia Plov Society.
Free admission
Language: English
Duration: 30 mins.
Language: English
Duration: 30 mins.
Ye Wuji is an artist and a dutar apprentice based in London and southern China. He is interested in displacement, liminality, remainders, and “mobile society”. His research and practise are activated through bodily experience and may be metabolized into a sensuous and debatable form of social commentary. Since 2015, a major part of his practice has focused on the Tianshan Mountains regions and the Eurasia connects to it. On a Sunday in 2019, Wuji became a member of the Central Asia Plov Society and holds on to a belief that plov is the most delicious food in the world.
His residency is initiated with Shanghai Rockbund Art Museum, realised in collaboration with Goethe-Institut Shanghai, and generally supported by De Ying Foundation.