" Transporting a Lake 200 Kilometers Away"
Performance Installation 2025
· Locating the lake · Deconstructive relocation · Public involvement · Completed the relocation
· Locating the lake · Deconstructive relocation · Public involvement · Completed the relocation
After not eating or drinking for 24 hours, I walked to the lake and documented the entire process. Holding a camera, I sat on the moss by the lake, drinking water continuously and collecting my third urine.I placed crystals dug from the mountains on the lakebed. I pressed clay next to the crystals to collect traces of the lakebed,which I removed the next day. My entire lake water transport: - Ceramic blocks (lakebed imprints/geographic coordinates)- Lake water and stone specimens with moss communities- Chairs covered with lakeside moss and garbage bags- Metabolic filtrate (urine)- Words I experienced while transporting the lake- Crystals- The book I read throughout the process: "Vibrant Dust, " which contains a handwritten story about the search for the lake- Interactive items: Glow-in-the-dark badminton and rackets- A dinosaur toy given by a little girl after finding the lake.
A vertically proportioned white cloth was placed in the center of theexhibition hall, surrounded by three vertically proportioned white cubes. The video, on the left and right, respectively, depicted the emptiness ofthe lake and the process of searching for the lake. The clarity of thevideo was broken down into three levels: the cubes, the white cloth, andthe white wall. The sound of the lake was looped. Objects carried by"me" were scattered throughout the space.
When visitors entered the lake area of theexhibition hall, I prepared a coordinate axis forthem (x: matter, -x: energy, y: 1+1 abstracttruth, -y: illusion). I guided them to observe,feel, and listen to any event or object in thescene and mark the corresponding point onthe axis. Eventually, the viewer would markmany points on the axis, connecting them toform a unique shape.
Finally, each audiencemember who has completedthe connection of thespecial-shaped patterns isinvited to use the plasterprepared on site to shapetheir own figures into three- dimensional shapes. Fromthen on, the lake is in aconstant state ofreconstruction