12.04.2024
Build Space, CIT
Hitting Times: 56
I will run through the wall.
A body
Projector
Wooden mobile wall
White painting paper
Contact Mic & Speaker
Rubber carpet
Pavestone
Sandbag
Pin
Projector
Wooden mobile wall
White painting paper
Contact Mic & Speaker
Rubber carpet
Pavestone
Sandbag
Pin
It is easy to define running as one basic element in this performance. But the other, which is not so much obvious as it should be, is the stimulation of a body being seen which is undergoing an intensive accumulation of pain, not only from the gaze from the spectators, but also from the physical self-consciousness.
The moment the body hits the wall, is the moment I get my “feeling” back. I interrogate a visual-dominant society, as it forms a “boundary” between me and the nature of human society, pushing me away from the truth. I have a strong feeling that it shuts down my pathway to sense being in both inner and outer surroundings. I wonder, under the virtual and phenomenal space, what remains?
I want to challenge the current social norm of perception, especially the way I touch and the mutual dynamic between me and the external. It is supposed to be multi-sensational through multiple connections. But I am constrained by a tiny, flat screen, a screen which could create a whole new world now. Looking around the passengers and cars passing by, how alive the world should be, I am weaving a net of self-constraint.
What is not (or should not be) mentioned in the title is, “what if I really hit down the wall?” “Doing something in vain” is a thought that always pops up in my mind while preparing for this project, and later on, strongly appearing again in the process of performing it for the first time. Sisyphus is pushing forward the giant rock. I am running through the wall. Very possible, self-constraint is a point, a condition. It could be the beginning of the absurd. It could be the beginning of meaningfulness. That’s where the boundary comes from.
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