sphere

the performance

6th up-on live art festival, luxe museum, chengdu oct 2018

Visible from afar, I see the sphere and want to reach it. It’s a process of slower and slower convergence. The tapering water surface becomes so narrow that in order to be able to get closer I have to lie down.
In the end, reaching is prevented - by the architectural element, in whose side walls I get stuck with my hips. Actually the planned end, the unattainability. I fathom it out. Have I touched it? I want to believe that I can touch it with my fingertips. And yet remaining unattainable. Then I want to give up. But one of the spectators - he steps out of the anonymous crowd, takes the sphere and gives it to me in my hands, which are still so demanding.

What an unexpected “happy ending”.

photos by dengzhen. with a lot of gratitude to Zhao Bin and the Up-On Live art festival.

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