This behavioral art performance is a collaboration with young dance artist Jiang Yuxi. It features an
immersive, panoramic projection of my 7-minutes experimental short film Wuwei—The Art of
Non-Action, integrated with paintings and 3D installations to construct a liminal spatial field.
Amid the gradual disappearance of cultural relics, humanity plays dual roles as both protector and destroyer. Time, as the sovereign of the physical world, renders many interventions futile—echoing the Daoist concept of Wuwei (non-action): to act by yielding, free from forced effort or artificial control. Yet within the relentless tide of history, countless individuals persist with Sisyphean determination to safeguard fragments of beauty, while countless others succumb to the vortex of desire, wreaking havoc through reckless actions.
“It is precisely by refraining from forceful interference (Wuwei) that all things can unfold according to their nature, ultimately accomplishing everything (Wuwei Er Wu Buwei—Non-action, yet nothing is left undone). ”
Through movement and narrative, the dancer and the artist jointly explore the human body as a physical vessel, bound by the dimensions of space and time. Whether in dance or struggle, humans oscillate between attacking and being attacked, oppressing and being oppressed—locked in an eternal, paradoxical dance with the Other...
Amid the gradual disappearance of cultural relics, humanity plays dual roles as both protector and destroyer. Time, as the sovereign of the physical world, renders many interventions futile—echoing the Daoist concept of Wuwei (non-action): to act by yielding, free from forced effort or artificial control. Yet within the relentless tide of history, countless individuals persist with Sisyphean determination to safeguard fragments of beauty, while countless others succumb to the vortex of desire, wreaking havoc through reckless actions.
“It is precisely by refraining from forceful interference (Wuwei) that all things can unfold according to their nature, ultimately accomplishing everything (Wuwei Er Wu Buwei—Non-action, yet nothing is left undone). ”
Through movement and narrative, the dancer and the artist jointly explore the human body as a physical vessel, bound by the dimensions of space and time. Whether in dance or struggle, humans oscillate between attacking and being attacked, oppressing and being oppressed—locked in an eternal, paradoxical dance with the Other...
Gazing, 3D printing PLA