SEPTEMBER, 2005 , CHENGDU, CHINA, OPEN PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL
FILM:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yd34m5YWrak
This performance I made in collaboration with my colleague Mari Novotny Jones. The people were encouraged to choose one of their most favorite values from classical Chinese society -like: social justice, equality, friendship, collaboration, solidarity, collectivism etc.- and, with each word (character) written on a piece of paper, they were asked to wrap it over a stone and try to shoot it into the garbage can with it, from a distance- like a basketball game. When they succeeded, they were asked to pick up one of the nicely looking envelopes as a reward, to open up at home. These envelopes contained some of the values which could come into Chinese society with a growing capitalistic market society -like: individualism, loneliness, isolation, ignorance, waste, arrogance...... ..OPEN PERFORMANCE ART FESTIVAL
Dumping traditional values
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