ABSTRACT
In this chapter, I examine the digital performance artworks created by three queer Chinese artists based in Europe: Berlin-based queer filmmaker Fan Popo's short digital video Lerne Deutsch in meiner Küche (Learn German in my kitchen), London-based performance artist Zeng Burong's performance Non-Taster and London-based writer David K. S. Tse's digital radio play The C Word. All three artworks were created in 2020 during the pandemic and all deal explicitly with the issues of anti-Asian racism and cross-cultural understanding. All these artworks also deal with issues of food and culinary practices. I suggest that making digital performance about food can serve as a creative and culturally sensitive strategy to engage with pandemic politics. It also articulates a type of Chinese queer diaspora identity and cultural politics.
