从不，有时，经常，总是

表演，35分钟

四频录像&声音装置数件，23分钟&尺寸可变

2020年突如其来的新冠疫情加速了日常生活的全面“云端化”：电商购物、快递物流、外卖餐饮、网络课堂等变为常态，在满足即时享受的同时也影响了我们对时间与空间的观感。社会关系的远近，情感上的亲密疏离，与空间距离已经毫无关联，日常的生活正在从身体的、生物的模式向虚拟的电子模式转变，现实中的“附近”发生着天翻地覆的变化。

艺术家公开招募了生活在成都各行政区的不同年龄、不同职业且毫无表演经验的六位居民，围绕“附近”这一主题展开探讨，生成剧场表演作品《从不，有时，经常，总是》以及同名的多频录像装置作品，以刺激观者活在“提问里”，积极地面对现实矛盾，从结果衡量标准中把自己解放出来，探寻其内心深处的答案…

Never , Rarely , Sometimes , Always

Performance, 35 min

Four-channel video & sound installation, 23 min & dimension variable

“ The outbreak of coronavirus in 2020 accelerated the ‘cloudisation’ of our lives, and we became highly dependent on the activities that do not consume much of our own energy: e-commerce, logistics services, fooddelivery services, and cloud classrooms have become the new norms. As a consequence, our instant gratifications were satisfied, yet our perception of time and space as well as our lifestyle were changed. The emotional closeness in our personal relationships has nothingto do with physical distance, as our lives are transforming from a physical and biological model to a virtual and electronic one and our surroundings are undergoing drastic changes. Subsequently, new social symptoms began to appear: we are gradually losing the ability to express verbally and physically in a result-oriented society. Individuals are afraid of making little progress, resulting in cultural diseases. Based on above phenomenon, I began to think about the main causes of the social problems.

In this project, I recruited six people from Chengdu through open call. They are of different ages, different professional backgrounds and with no performance experience. Througha six-day theater workshop, we discussed our “surroundings”, creating the performance work Never, Rarely, Sometimes, Always and the multi-channel video installation with the same name. I hope to stimulate the audience and make them keep questioning in challenging times and face the contradictions in reality with positivity, liberate themselves from the standards, eventually, find the answers in their inner selves.”