李艾筱 LI Aixiao

I. Video "Flowing Cup”, Photography "Jiuqu Stones” 

  • Flowing Cup, Video, 2021

  • Flowing Cup, Video of Live Art, 2021

  • Flowing Cup, Video of Live Art, 2021

  • Jiuqu Stones, Photography, 2021

II. Video “The Freedom of Lying Flat”

  • The Freedom of Lying Flat,  Video,2021

  • The Freedom of Lying Flat,  Video of  Live Art,2021

  • The Freedom of Lying Flat,  Video of  Live Art,2021

III. Video “How to Tear Down a Mountain”, Photography “Empty Mountain” and “Stone Mountain”

  • Empty Mountain, Photography, 2021

  • How to Tear Down a Mountain,  Video, 2021

  • Stone Mountain, Photography, 2021


The creation is mainly based on performance:

I. Video “Flowing Cup”, Photography “Jiuqu Stones”

I allude to myself as a small cup, walking, staying, and disappearing in the long river of time, to understand time and life. I stop at every bend in the Jiuqu River to remember the history, respect the ancients, and pay tribute to Wang Xizhi. Each stopping and looking are the looking and thinking between me and life. At the same time, I  make my interpretation of the mystery of Jiuqu stones’ writing by the action: they show the whole process of life. People lie down at birth and death but stand and walk in the river of life at other stages.  In every bend, we will hesitate, stay and turn, but eventually flow to the end of time with the river of life. 


II. Video “The Freedom of Lying Flat”

Recently, the word "lying flat" is very popular in China. With the rapid development of society, the young people of the 80s and 90s generation are facing great survival pressure. Therefore, many of us face it by lying flat. This behavior has been greatly criticized. Do we have the freedom to lie flat? I set up my camera in front of the statue of Sun Yat-Sen in Zhongshan Hall and lay flat until someone touched my body.


III. Video “How to Tear Down a Mountain”, Photography “Empty Mountain” and “Stone Mountain”

A child and I fill the stone inscription of the Chinese character "mountain" with small gravel and then take it down, which intuitively shows how the mountain become a mountain and how it is easily demolished by man. In this process, it seems that the filling-in is being removed, and the removal is filling-in.

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