Installation |performance (30min)|
Multiple materials
Chengdu, China
2020
This is a cooperation project with AKA CAFE (Chengdu, China). This cafe has suffered two floods. Inspirited by this experience I created an imaginary flood world. What are “Linxi’s” floods? Who will survive during this flood? I gathered a lot of friends, and we painted repeatedly drawn of mine every day together for a week, and I used those paintings to cover the area in the cafe that had been covered by the flood. Then I collected a lot of clothes, blankets, and other used domestic fabrics from my family, and made 10 dolls out of these fabrics. Each doll is her imagination of her family.
During the opening ceremony, I did a live performance. Two bamboo stools were placed in the center. I and the audience sat back to back on the bamboo stools, and we looked at each other through the mobile phone video on the phone holder in front of us. The audience can participate and leave freely. During the creation and exhibition of this project, there were many connected, tender moments contrasting the fear of disaster.
It’s also a collaboration that I worked as curator, artist, and organizer of events at the same time.
在和AkaCafe主理人傅德望聊天时他提到，咖啡店曾经被洪水淹没了两次，然后迁居到这里。洪水的故事让我很着迷，以此为灵感我同时作为策展人和艺术家和AKA CAFE共同发起了这次展览。
长期以来我们都习惯了生活在我们自己建立的城市水泥森林里，在面临洪水这样的被动灾害时，人们持续性的日常被打破，在承担着恶果的同时又有着除了受害者之外更丰富多元的存在和可能。我把我个人对于洪水这样被动灾害和个人之间关系的感受用：星星（黄），月亮（蓝），花（桃红）和新芽（绿）建立了一套简单的规则，并用这些简单纯粹的形状和颜色和可复制的规则，作为基本元素，召集身边的人用一周的时间进行现场绘画，直到绘画面积覆盖到曾经洪水浸泡在咖啡店里的高度。我尝试在这个过程中模拟出人类建造城市水泥森林的状态。希望借由这个过程和绘画本身重新构建出AkaCafe和洪水之间的全新场域景象，重新向观众提出个体和处在灾难之中个人的状态的关系除了灾难性的，毁灭之外，梦幻，自足安居的可能性。
MOMOKO（娃娃装置）的灵感来自于德勒兹的“无器官身体”的概念，他认为身体的存在才是根本性的，同时身体又是可变的、生成的、不稳定与无规则的，是“无政府主义的身体”，但是问题在于，这种景观中的身体之流动性与变化并不是无所不在，到处弥漫的外在权利作用的结果，而是身体本身就是一种永不停息的欲望之流，是四处冲撞与奔突的力本身，是一种茎块式的处于不断延伸，分解和组状态的纯强度物体。即借“无器官的身体”表达:人类的身体本身就是在不断生成的充满张力与欲望的状态中。
在展览开幕式当天我也在现场做了行为作品：对视。
