Mutant Man features six video works of computer animation, performance, and hand-drawn animation from the works selected by the 2015 MOCA Video open-call-for-work program. With different perspectives, the six videos discuss how social situations have contributed to human's altered physical perception. Discord, pressure and alienation in contemporary society have caused a break between people's physical perception and the self, other, and environment, transforming them into de-familiarized, frenzied, and mutated bodies.
Five artists are showcased in Mutant Man. Romanian artist Monica Vlad's :interrupted reveals a series of constantly disappearing images of memory and emotional connection, representing human existence in a state of solitude and disintegration. Macedonian artist Darko Taleski has dermatographia. In Help Refugees, he writes down pleas for helping European refugees on his body, epitomizing people's anxiety and discomfort regarding the chaotic international situations on his skin. Zheng Yo-Cheng's The Crazy is inspired by Lu Xun's A Madman's Diary, and depicts the cruelty and shackles imposed by contemporary society, which lead to people's psychological repression, breakdown and escape. In Building, Building, Lin Wang-Tin aims to address how modern urban development has led to a life in cold and modularized buildings. The condition of "non-homes" has transformed people into unfeeling objects, moving but not living. With hand-drawn animation, Young Gym-Jack's The Useless Cha-cha and Everyday’s a Holiday delineate surrealistic bodies that undergo continuous mutations through fantasies in life.