BRUNO ZHU

 

BRUNO ZHU is wearing the Gio No. 011. He is an artist living between Amsterdam and Viseu.

What is the first thing you do in the morning?
Eat something within thirty minutes after waking up, otherwise I'll be hangry all day.

What is the last thing you do at night?
Find the funniest meme to send me laughing to sleep.

What are you bored by?
Centrists.

What should we be reading?
News outlets outside Europe and North America to get a larger picture.

What do you collect?
Discounted designer handbags and sunglasses from TK Maxx.

What stands the test of time?
Good quality underwear.

What is your perfect meal?
A supermarket salad for lunch. It's a budget friendly 'disappointment' to justify rewarding myself with the fancy coffee drink I'll get for my afternoon break.

What takes you to cloud 9?
Punchy, raw, twisty, honest, painful, and impeccably delivered comedy.

Where would you find your doppelgänger?
Honestly and literally? In Vancouver, BC, Canada.

What is good design?
Anything that convinces homophobes to dress, act, hurt, and piss like their worst nightmare.

Where do you find good design?
At a charity shop. Clothes that stand the test of time deserve to be studied: is it because of polyester or a fad that never died?

What is most difficult to find in contemporary culture?
Acceptance.

What do you find most exciting in contemporary culture?
Revolution.

What is your favorite animal?
Cats.

What is still a mystery?
Cats, and gays.

What is your favourite representation of simplicity?
A spoon.

What is your favourite representation of complexity?
The yellow traffic light.

Where is happiness found?
It's a verb in Rupaul's dictum: "If you can't LOVE yourself, how in the hell are you gonna LOVE somebody else?"

What do you find humorous?
People making fun of me.

What is modern?
Seeing "0 calories" stamped on bottles of still water.

Can you recall a dream?
Not one in particular, but I recall a lot of them involving people having heated arguments, shouting and pointing fingers at one another.

What do you want to trade?
Love.

What do you want to find?
Love.

Any last words?
Free Palestine.