悬亭 Hovering

video and sign language poetry series, 2021-2022







Nature is never outside us. All corners of the urban space have long been inseparable from our bodies. Refusing the human/nature division means that we need to be in constant conversation with the more-than-human world, and keep inviting other movements into us: becoming otherwise, and in this case, becoming birds.

In 悬亭 series,  I invite my friends and collaborators Yanfei and Baizong to translate some of my bird video works into sign language, and it soon become a dance with the birds, and our collective choreography through which we expand and shape each other.

By watching/filming the steps, pauses, dives, gazes of birds, and transforming them into our own body through signing, could we inhabitie the birds? When our body is the study room to listen to nature, would we find other ways of communicating, encountering and being, would we start to 
remember the rituals of dreaming and transforming化物?

 


Yanfei
video, work in progress, 2022, with Yanfei Li,  in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands







The Pigeon behind A Pigeon 2 video, 2 min 59 secs, 2022, with Yanfei Li, and Baizong , in Zhongshan, Huizhou, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands








video, 6 min 19 secs, 2022, with Yanfei Li, in Zhongshan, China, and Rotterdam, Netherlands









鸽子 背面的 鸽子 1
video, 2 min 59 secs, 2021, with a pigeon on the street






路  Road
    鸟 Heron
 
video, 41 secs, 2021, with a heron in a park