Ruins I 墟 I
Performance-Video，10'00''，2024
Scenes are vehicles of memory, reproduced in the mind through images, sounds and perceptions. In "Mounds and Ruins: Elapse and Remembrance", Wu Hong writes that ruins symbolize both transience and an obsession with the flow of time - it is these two complementary dimensions that together define the materiality of ruins. Thus while the past elapses with time, it simultaneously expresses the symbiosis of grief and vitality.
The performance happened on a dead volcano in the desert. In a desolate and isolated environment, only the sound of steps rubbing against the volcanic earth, the wind and the breathing, gazing at puny life and massive death. It's a process, it's a memory revisited, it's a climbing practice. It's an attempt to try to fit into nature due to a sense of lack, and it's also a farewell.
Distant things will no longer be revived. Something that once existed, something that passed away, and something that still exists.
Welcome to the ruins.
The performance happened on a dead volcano in the desert. In a desolate and isolated environment, only the sound of steps rubbing against the volcanic earth, the wind and the breathing, gazing at puny life and massive death. It's a process, it's a memory revisited, it's a climbing practice. It's an attempt to try to fit into nature due to a sense of lack, and it's also a farewell.
Distant things will no longer be revived. Something that once existed, something that passed away, and something that still exists.
Welcome to the ruins.
2min preview version
24–09–2024