Sunday, June 29, 2014
Saturday, June 14, 2014
Thursday, June 12, 2014
My first performance art in Wandering Scholars, Chinese University of Hong Kong
The Burning Ritual
30th, May 2014
The Chinese traditional ritual paper
offerings are objects made of paper, many of them handmade and one of a kind,
which are offered to the beings residing beyond the world of the living: the
gods, the ghosts and the ancestors. Nearly all these paper items are burned in
order to reach their destination in the other world. It have been central to
Chinese culture for millennia and as a public, visual display of spiritual
belief, they are still evident today in Hong Kong and China. (Janet Lee Scott,
For Gods, ghosts and ancestors : the Chinese tradition of paper offerings 2007)
In this performance, we will walk around
the boundary of CUHK and perform our ritual there, so why do we burn or
sacrifice academic paper?
To pay tribute to the pioneers of CUHK or
let them read your paper
To spread your notions to the Chinese
spirit world
To take your knowledge out of the material
world
To embrace new idea by destroying the old
one
To burn the polished, lifeless formatted
academic paper and dissemination.
To cease your hatred to the paper hopefully
Wandering Scholars is an interdisciplinary
symposium about contemporary culture, art, media and scholarship that focuses
on acts of “walking” and “wandering” as strategies of thought and expression.
It will consider the importance of processes of walking, elements of
distraction, chaos, non-productivity, non-linearity and “failure”, as well as
the fascination of a peripatetic way of disseminating knowledge. Whether we are
making solitary journeys or moving in groups, we are constantly drifting and
perceiving with five senses, or using technological devices, while sensing the
rhythms and languages constituted by spaces, times and people. The symposium
invites artists, scholars and audiences to develop participatory modes of
education as acts of walking.
http://www.wanderingscholars.com.hk/
Sunday, June 8, 2014
received Special Recognition Award from Landscape Art Competition 2014 at lightspacetime.com
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