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Reflection of Final Work

My works are composed of images and performances, and the forms of presentation are installations. Inspired by me are the performance artists Joan Jonas and Yoko Ono. Because many of them combine performing arts with drama and dance, some theatre companies also Inspired me a lot, such as the Obsession of the Dutch Theatre Company and (A) Pollonia of the Polish Theatre Company. There are also many video artists and video artists, such as Christopher Marker, who have also inspired a lot of my video production.

First of all, I would like to talk about an important part of my work: performances. In terms of overall form and motivation, I was inspired mainly by the work of Joan Jonas, who demonstrated a critical deconstruction of the medium in the fields of sculpture, sketching, dance, video and performance art, mixing and merging them into A multi-level rich narrative designed to break the rules and regulations. In "Mirage", multiple screens and props form the setting of the theater. The projector displays the edited script. Next to it is a TV monitor, blackboard, and interactive sculpture. Jonas paints what she calls "Endless Drawing" on the blackboard. The projector shows the pre-recorded painting process. Jonas quickly drew a grid and crazily stomped on her feet. These body movements interweave with memories and accumulate into climaxes that coincide with the volcanic eruptions on the projection screen. In the works of The Juniper Tree and Reading Dante, artists perform live paintings and the painting process is part of the performance. The inspiration for live painting in my works is exactly the source here. A painting process will produce two effects. The result of the painting itself and the performance of the painting, combined with the content and rhythm of the video, combined into a multi-dimensional work form.

Video is indeed an important part of my work. Just like Jonas's video works, they have always occupied the space between independent works of art and archives. Pre-recorded video may become part of a performance show, and a performance show may also be the object of real-time projection. The past and present are intertwined and mixed, breaking the linearity of time and memory. Jonas gave different answers to the flexible mixing and juxtaposition of media to existential ontology, refuting the view that recording and processing would inevitably concretize the original performance.

Joan Jonas also added elements of national culture to her works. She possesses an outstanding ability: she can transform literary materials, ritual custom and non-Western cultural traditions into a mixture of specificities, challenging the expression of each media art. At the limit, after she watched the noh and Kabuki performances, she used Japanese masks and costumes in traditional drama to perform for a long time. The gesture of action was also stylized. This is also my choice in my own work. One of the reasons for the celestial burial ceremony of Tibetan culture, I took advantage of the form of the burial ceremony and used it to express the theme of fear.

Yoko Ono’s performing art, Cut Piece, also gave me a lot of inspirations. The content of the show was that several audience members randomly selected to be on the bench were asked to cut her clothes into pieces with scissors until they were naked. The work released a desire for completeness and a longing for love. The message, as it was cut into pieces, gained an outward communication in an internally traumatized world. The work was also a projection of human pain and loneliness. In the third performance in 2003, he invited the person who had lost her clothes on stage to take away the piece that he had cut and gave it to the one they loved. In my work, I painted on the spot according to the content of the video, and cut it down, and informed the participants that if they liked the story, they could take away a piece of debris. Although this process was based on the celestial burial ceremony, it was a concept of cutting it down. The concept of Cut Piece is very similar. Desire to eliminate darkness and fear, hoping to achieve salvation at the same time as destroying them, audience participation, these fears of my fears and narrators will become part of their hearts, regardless of whether they have obtained empathy, fear or strength. Will become part of them. Unlike Yoko Ono's work, perhaps many participants could not feel her inner thoughts from her single body language, and I directly expressed emotions through video and narrator's direct presentation and my own painting process. The reaction gave the audience.

In addition, several of the traditional plays that I've seen before using the new media approach also inspired me, such as Obsession, starring Jude Law. The play is adapted from a novel by director of a Belgian theater director, known as Art Director of Toneelgroep. In Amsterdam, the Netherlands, Van Hoof’s iconic style is an ultramodernist minimalist expression of drama tension through expressionism. The stage uses a video projection method to render emotions, while a Polish drama (A) Pollonia also uses this method and will The combination of video and video projection shows a sense of dislocation between space and time. The play used a large number of ancient Greek myths and literary works. Their forms were the source of my original ideas. At first I chose Japan. The novelist's novel was adapted into a script and he wanted to join a Chinese mythology story. He created a narrative story in the form of real-time video recording in a relatively traditional form, but after combining Joan Jonas's performance form, I adapted the work. More emotional and abstract, removed Narrative elements.

And video works like Chris Mark also gave inspiration to the imagery of my work. For example, Chris Marker movie runs through a female proverbial slang, Japan, Iceland and Guinea. Various images of Hong Kong intersect, but the author left the most time for Tokyo. He recorded the culture and life of the Japanese people, the iconic Lucky Cat, religious ceremonies, sexual culture, cartoons, railways, Pearl Harbor, rock music, and interspersed fragments of old movies. Attention, thinking about history and memory. It is also like reconstructing memories with images. It is neither real history nor fictional stories. It is a poem composed of pictures and sounds. My works also use sound as the main medium. When the narrator tells his story, I will use the things I photographed to combine the images and videos in some movies to abstractly reflect their fears. I will use the screen to organize the content and piece together the text, like writing an article in audio-visual language instead of shooting narrative film content.

And this assignment has made me more steadfast in my interest in art. After seeing many experimental videos, video installations, interactive shows and new media performances, I finally had the chance to try my own work. I am no longer a bystander. , I will become a participant. The most basic requirement of art for creators is to have the courage to dare to express. This is the basic of its existence. I always think that I am a timid and humble person. This is why I chose the theme of fear, and the burial of the sky. The reason why it looks very extreme but very religious form. This choice of interactive performances is helping me and even forcing me to take this step. This is the most important meaning to me. In this work I will also add to my fear story and hope that they can be eaten clean by “vulture”. If not, I will put it back in my heart and remind myself.

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