– intervention/performance/installation, 27/06-10/07/2014, Berlin, Germany
班雅明：「正是因為那些沒有希望的事，我們才得到希望。」
Nur um der Hoffnungslosen willen ist uns die Hoffnung gegeben.
Only for the sake of the hopeless ones have we been given hope.
– Walter Benjamin
曾是分隔東西德的圍牆，在1989年11月9日打開了缺口。
二十五年後，瞭望塔變成了電車軌，兩軌間長滿了大大小小的野生花草。
我在東柏林曾經監控隔離的土地上拔起119棵植物，撒下太陽花種籽，然後把植物移植到西柏林的畫廊被劈開的白牆上。
垂直的花園宛如紀念碑，誰又知道希望埋在列車飛揚的土床上又能否綻放出花朵？
‘Wahnsin‘ (amazing) is the word of the evening when the Berlin Wall came down on November 9th, 1989 and people were flooding the border between the East and West Berlin. 25 years after the peaceful revolution, tram now runs quietly through the Bornholmer Strasse and Bösebrück (Böse Bridge) every day and flowers are blooming on the newly built tracks where the DDR border checkpoint was located in East Berlin.
I transplanted 119 plants from the tramway on Bornholmer Strasse by the Bösebrück to the gallery, and at the same time I seeded the same number of sunflowers at the same spot. While trams pass by every day there, will the sunflowers grow and flourish? The spatial displacement of plants shows the artist’s reflection upon the notion of unity of a nation, particularly in relation to my own experience of living in Hong Kong after its sovereignty returned to Mainland China in 1997. This project is also a homage to all revolutionaries who have dedicated their effort to make social changes peacefully, and especially to those who sacrificed themselves anonymously in social movements.
special thanks to Thomas Horn and Liu Yin
photo credits: Emi Maria Bohacek, Thomas Horn, Liu Yin, wen yau
(my participation in Studio Berlin was made possible with the support of Hong Kong Kong Arts Development Council.)
This work is part of the Studio Berlin project, Curated by Thomas Adebahr and Emi Maria Bohacek, presented in Import Projects, Berlin, Germany, 27 June-10 July 2014
《哇塞（謹向所有和平革命者致敬）》榮獲澳門藝術博物館「以身觀身──中國行為藝術文獻展 2015」評選為「優秀作品」
Wahnsinn (homage to all peaceful revolutionaries) received ‘Excellence Award’ at Inward Gazes: Documentaries of Chinese Performance Art 2015, Macao Museum of Art