Thursday, October 25, 2007

Performance 6 : listen to the city under water



This performance is quite poetic. The artist explained that a city called "奉" was flood and now is under water because of the Three Gorges Dam Project in China. In response to this history, the artist destroyed a little part of the road and put a bowl of water on it, and let the audience lay on the road and listen to the water as well as the city under the water.

During the performance (to be more concrete, at the time the audience listen to water), a taxi drove towards the performance site and almost hit the bowl of water. At the moment, one other artist steped in front of the bowl of water, used his organic body to protect the artwork from the taxi. What I can see is the space politic between human body and social transportation.

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