“Life itself is already of art. Everyone can be a performance artist as long as you add ideas and creativity into your life." Yuenjie said. After searching and savoring his performance works, Yuenjie，he did have been exactly accomplishing what he think and believe.
Actually, he just behaves his life and expresses his thought specially and creatively. Considering that the social issue in Hong Kong, everyone will have his or her own thought and feeling on that particular events. Normally, people will just think in mind or discuss it with the others, even somebody will use their bodies to express feeling while they are talking with the others.
But for Yuenjie, he just adds more ideas and elements to express what he thinks. "Just make it special". For example, some HK people want to express their feeling, thought and belief on the June Fourth, they may go to June Fourth Soiree. As for Yuenjie, he was though the Human-pupa performance to express. He tied himself by "cocoon". After the time, he came out from it. (Audience) People surround him witnessed the whole process. Indeed, audience have already been understanding his thought and listening his feeling.
In fact, what he did and used are simple. He just used pen, paper, umbrella, adhesive paper and other simple stuff as materials to perform. He just did some simple actions in performance without complicated movement. He just chooses simple and related area and time, without in any noble place. All are simple. However, this "simple" has made him different, especially made his life different, even made the audience different.
This is really very interesting performance especially when located in public roads or theatre. The process of Papa’s breaking out to become butterfly usually means reborn of life after great struggle. It should be a struggling and encouraging process. But for me, it is a little strange and funny when watching these huge Mummy-like cocoons broken by an umbrella.
回覆刪除I can’t understand several things. Why he use an umbrella to break out from the cocoons? And particularly in the third movie, The Thinker, why he uses a strange umbrella with bones only? It is also noticed that these performances are all located in public areas, such as theatre and road. Is this because he wants to enroll the interaction with public audiences? Or is that important if he wants to represent the theme of reborn? Looking forward your later research.