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​​ONE DAY

02'45

performance, video, installation,tin-foil paper

A documentary shows artist unconsciousness behaviour during the Spring season.

By using the foil paper which is normally used in the kitchen, to recording how seasonal changing could affect a person's mental situation

 

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ONE DAY is the twin artwork with SOME DAY, both of them represent the definition of time and modified-behaviour.

Differently, I myself want to offer an opportunity to ease my audiences and users, from performance to allowed people to think twice about the functionality-caused behaviour, and how many time was lost by repetitively meanless mundane life. 

To deconstruct this artwork, from the performance itself and the installation:

Firstly I chose to start with the plain and ordinary objects that everyone familiar with, the tin-foil. Which usually comes from the kitchen, and it is mass-produced in the big factory, wildly sold in the chain supermarkets like Sainsbury's, Tesco, M&S. More importantly, it is my identity same as each of my audiences, we're all the people who passing by on the street, we're all the people who need the tin-foil paper to roast chicken, even our job type is different, we need to walk, we need to work, and we need to cook. It was a windy afternoon I walked on the street after shopping. and the tin foil dropped off on the ground, I've heard its sounds, technically, the sounds of wind. After this occasion of inspiration, I decided to combine it with my wind fan project. As the starting point in this video.

On the other hand, two groups of windmills are able to emphasize the organic connection between art and its environment. As the experiencer who was in the windy day, my body as apart of art material, is capable of inviting audiences to cast aside for a moment these proper manners and partake wholly in the real nature of the art and life.

 Due to the definition of artist identity has changed in this work, I must say that I'm more like the container of nature.

 

Inspired by the "HAPPENING ART", ONE DAY was fresh in a while, it cannot be reproduced

by any chance.

Just like the metaphor of our people nowadays, repetitively doing the works

that they familiar with, but most of the time losing the sensation of natures changing,

the season's circling. Furthermore, there is no sharp research question such as

"blaming the collective behaviour " or finger point to society. 

Because the procedure of my performance is unlike any other  "HAPPENING ART",

it's non-dirty one, and it is more like the combination of land art and unpredictable. 

Marta_Minujín_Leyendo_las_noticias1.jp

Argentine artist Marta Minujín in a 1965 happening, Reading the news, in which she got into the Río de La Plata wrapped in newspapers

Basic information & pictures via:

Google images,

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Happening

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