Novel or Poem?
Video installation (five-channel video & installation), 5min&Variable size, 2018
“Novel？Poem？” is about “ Do you want your life to be a novel or poem？”in themes, a question which is inspired by my feelings on Kyoto, creating 5 different scenes within it, that vox pop the Kyoto locals、“video of intersection pedestrian ”projecting on the cardboard composed screen、“street corner“ at the back of the cardboard composed screen, and “interior monologue ”of all 5 participants recruited by the Kyoto art center, who give out “performance” behind the desk are involved. The 5-channel video & installation on site is consisted of a interlaced field of both time and space. Which is holistic and partial ,omnipresent and implicated together.
Like the work“ video of intersection pedestrian ”on the main screen , that I use a typical Kyoto intersection ,common but crowd mixed, where a cross-point people gather then head for different directions ,all the moment when the signal light turns on the intersecting between people comes up, conducting a momentary impression from each other, indicated by the blinking word label displayed in the screen.
While all the labels are gradually reduced as the truck drive in.
A truck’s driving in is as the intervenes of Kyoto in the workshop. Based on which that I hope the spectator would place themselves in the midst in the sphere, wandering in those 5 scenes, halting with waver, wandering with hesitation，turn away or glance back, till obtaining their own answer for the question.
小说？诗？
录像装置（五频录像&装置数件），5分钟，尺寸可变，2018
《小説？诗？》围绕“你希望自己的人生是小说还是诗？” 这个由我对京都的感受生发出的问题，分别营造了五种不同的场景。 其中包括对京都市内当地町民的”街访”、投映在纸箱屏风上的“路口行人录像”、纸箱屏风背面的“街景一角”，以及参加此次京都市艺术中心工作坊五位演出者的“自白”和他们在桌面背后进行“表演”。可以说作品现场是由五频录像装置构建而成的一个时间和空间的交错场域。这种交错既是整体上的，也是局部上的，它们无处不在，互相牵连。
例如主屏幕的“路口行人录像”，我选择了在京都常见且混杂的十字路口，人们从这一个交叉点相聚而后各自奔往不同的地点。在绿灯亮起的一瞬间而即刻发生人与人的交错碰撞，画面中跳动的文字标签即代表了这种交错碰撞所带来的对他者的瞬时印象。随着一辆卡车的驶入，这些文字标签也随之被冲淡。
一辆卡车的介入恰如此次工作坊对京都的一种介入。借由这样的介入，希望每位观众置身作品的场域之中时，游走穿梭在五个不同的录像场景之间，或转身背离，或驻足迟疑，或踱步犹豫，或流连反顾，直至选择或找到自己对问题的答案。