exhibition title: on a Day to Day Basis
date: November 5th,2009 - February5th, 2010
view: installation at Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, China
*more detail of titles are below.
List of works of on a Day to Day Basis
1
title: Walking Through
year: 2009
material: HD video transfered to Blue-ray, color, sound, list of the object in use
time: 55 minutes
camera: Xiong Xun
camera assistant: Ruan Qihui
Produced by Vitamin Creative Space
note: Walking Through" captures the process of spontaneous reaction / improvised performance with various objects in daily use found in guangzhou, china. The video / all the process shot continuously for once by steady cam .
2
title: Each and Every
year: 2003
material: DVD, color, sound
time: 30 minutes and endless loop
cooperation: Masaki Kobayashi, Kazuya Shimizu, Zensai Ya Restaurant TANTO and Echigo-tsumari Art Triennial 2003.
note: This work captures the process of how a cook works during his regular day in a restaurant. There are few cooks but the camera follows just one. It shows the complexity of his process where preparing, cutting and washing do not progress linearly.
3
title: One Place to The Other, The Other to The One before (Shi Pai Village in Guangzhou).
year: 2009
material: HD video, color, sound, transportation bike, carton box, rope, wood
time: 26 minutes
bike operator: Qin Shifu
camera: Xiong Xun
camera assistant: Ruan Qihui
camera bike operator: Zhou Shifu
note: Event at Shi Pai Village, Guangzhou.
date: 10/29/2009
Produced by Vitamin Creative Space
note: This work was shot in an urban village, Guangzhou. The traditional area, which developed organically with tiny alleys and buildings, will disappear within a few years because of urban gentrification. A self-employed courier was asked to bring many empty boxes from one gate to the other gate then back to the original gate.»
4
title: Fried rice and Art books
year: 2009
material: documentation photo
size: 790x1050mm each
note: Event at The Urban Village, Shi Pai Village, Guangzhou.
date: 8 am to 1 pm, 10/27/2009
created with Hu Fang and Vitamin Creative Space
note: Me and Vitamin Creative Space rent a place in the urban village in guangzhou to sell fried rice and art books(most of them are published by them) for breakfast and lunch.
5
title: Men & Women
year: 2004
material: DVD, color, sound
time: 38 seconds
note: it shows 100 different ways to hold a beer and a plate by hands.
6
title: Dog will save the world
year: 2002- 2005
material: DVD, color, sound
time: 1 minute 30 seconds
note; I asked my father to teach his dog to save the world. Maybe he could save the world someday? (appeared in the beginning of the video)
note: Accidentally found the glove ball in a toy store, I asked my father to teach his dog to save the world.
7
title: soaps in their hands, poster
year: 2008
material: inkjet print on cloth
size: 1050x1580mm (original: 1030×1456)
note: The photograph was shot in my parents house. There are piled up used soaps in the plate. They use a new soap before a old one finished.
8
title:The Fly never get inside.
year: 2009
material: ceiling fan, ribbon
size: 1000mm diameter, 3000mm high
note: there is a device which is made by a street meat vendor in china to avoid a fly with a ribbon and a small fan.
9
title: Working table
year: 2009
material: wood
size: 1400x1400x700mm
note: a carpenter in china make their working table by leftover before they start to work at site. artist ask a carpenter to make working table by new material before staring his installation.
10
title: 24 hours in one minute
year: 2008
material: DVD, color
time: 1 minute
note: I wrote 1441 numbers of each digital time in 24 hours from 00:00 to 24:00 by hand. And compressed into a minute.
11
title: monster in my hand, poster
year: 2008
material: inkjet print on cloth
size: 3000×5250 mm (original: 1030×1456)
note: Accidentally I found my hand have weird shape when I put my thumb close to forefinger.
12
Research photographs shot by the artist during the exhibition making process.
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Installation
note; I was inspired by the environment of Guangzhou and the office of Vitamin creative space to install following materials like Laundry, Umbrella, Magazine, Books, Light, Corrugated iron roof, Wall, Polystyrene foam, etc.
