



CONTRADICTION AND TENSION
Duracional performance
Elastic bands and seeds
Cameras: Sophie Chiang, Peng Dan and Gaeun Kim
Spacecraft Square of Luxezone, Chengdu, China, September, 2023
The performance is more than the externalization of an artist's ideas, it means being able to develop in the process the ideas that trigger the possibilities of continuing to deepen the meaning of what we create. Therefore my ideas have to do with the relationship with others, with the community, with contexts, with spaces, with history. My ideas place me in the search for these relationships. Build a bond, build a space through a line that connects me with the other.
I wouldn't talk about obstacle. I would talk about expansion of senses.
Just as we are unique, the way we perceive is also unique. In collective thinking there is the possibility of weaving together common ideas to delve into common senses. Something like a belief system. We believe in history, we believe in the content that a ceramic vase could have. We believe in the meaning of a seed, which may blossom. We believe in a hug. So these beliefs allow us to connect with something that goes through the “possible problems” of communication. The performative act and the experience transcend.
That fleeting is beautiful. It is what each one will keep in his memory. I was lucky to have a lot of documentation, both video and photography, which I will edit to share through my website, and perhaps in a future exhibition.
Improvisation and the unexpected are part of performance, and they are events that must be taken care of and valued, because they allow us to expand the notions of what is contained in the ideas.