 Shing-Kwan Chan argues that the performance was staged on a historical site constructed to divide and segregate, which, in a way, symbolically represents the dichotomous gender division of male and female.After the late 1990s, Fen-Ma Liuming was welcomed by most performance art festivals and art exhibitions.In a performance in Lyon, France in 2001, Ma took some sleeping pills and rendered himself motionless.