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a media+live performance @ The 3rd China-Japan Performance Art Exchange '07,
Xi'an, 12-13/11/2007

In a performance art exhibition in the ancient city Xi'an, Shaanxi province, I presented a work as a reflection on national, local and global citizenship.

 

The performance started when video clips of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games 100-day countdown celebration was shown. After digging out some cultural icons such as the Terra Cotta warriors found in Xi'an and the Fuwas, official mascots of Beijing 2008 Olympic Games, from a lump of dust, I placed them on my T-shirt and imitating their gestures one by one.

Members of the audience were then invited to put on face masks of Terra Cottas and Fuwas and to be gathered with strong cling wrap around them who became a massive distorted national flag with red paint and yellow stars on the surface. The group later on followed my whistle and the International Song paraded in the room. Interestingly, as long as the Terra Cottas and Fuwas were all burnt into ashes, the audience busted the wrap themselves and got out from the intimacy within their "nation".

 
   
 


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