Archive for 2022年10月

Border

Explore the people and landscapes in border towns.

My old hometown

This is my grandmother’s old home. She was born here. I didn’t grow up here as a child, but since I was a child, I have followed my family here to pay respects to my ancestors every year at Tomb Sweeping Day, until now. I found that the people and environment here are changing with the times. I will continue to observe the changes here every year when I go back.

False Untitled

Not stopping to record things that seem to have or not to have meaning.

Concealed flowers

In China, child sexual assault cases have remained high over the years. Since 2014, there have been more than 300 cases of sexual assault on children (under the age of 18) publicly reported by Chinese media alone every year.

In April 2020, during the outbreak of China’s COVID-19, Bao Yuming’s sexual assault on juveniles was a sensation throughout the country. Sina Weibo’s hot search ranked first in that days, and the number of readers who read the hot debate was hundreds of millions of times. There were a lot of people in the commentary about their sexual assault in childhood.

As the initiator, I gathered lawyers, psychological counselors and humanities scholars to launch an art project on juvenile sexual assault. In the whole project, lawyers provide legal aid and legal consultation for the victims, and psychological counselors provide psychological consultation for the victims, which are provided to the victims free of charge.

We have collected the materials of people who have experienced sexual assault in the past two years（from 2020 to 2021）. We have collected the materials of Victim through Sina Weibo, Douban, etc (both men and women, women are the majority), and some victims participated in our project. After informing other people with similar childhood sexual assault experience to participate in our project. At the same time, we also signed letters of authorization with the victims.

We have collected hardly more than 30 Victim-volunteers who are willing to stand up and provide materials to us. From the collected materials, most of the people who commit sexual assault are acquaintances, including teachers, stepfathers, cousins, cousins, uncles, and strangers. The categories of sexual assault also include rape, obscenity, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, exposure, peeping, etc, Because the victims are minor, some of them don’t even know what happened when they were infringed. Many accidents were encountered during the collection process, and many victims suddenly disappeared after providing half of the material, but we still insisted on doing it until now.
We do not intervene, but present it completely according to the wishes of the victims. We try to explore the psychological problems left after trauma encountered in the process of modernization in China, and the changes and effects of the victims ‘ psychological process during and after the whole event. We present the psychological changes and what has happened to the victims in the form of images, ready-made art, sounds and installations, Part of the photos were taken by me according to their wishes, and some parts by the victims themselves which I just gave composition and other technical suggestions. To protect privacy, I recommend that they take photos that do not reveal their facial features and photos of objects or physical details that they feel are emotionally linked. Finally, I combined these two photos. More importantly, we want to make people pay attention to the current living conditions of the witnesses and the impact of trauma on them through these forms, hoping to arouse people’s inner kindness and zero tolerance towards this behavior, And hope to strengthen the importance of sex education for the next generation in adolescence.

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In China, Since 2014, there have been more than 300 cases of sexual assault on children (under the age of 18) publicly reported by Chinese media alone every year.
In April 2020, during the outbreak of COVID-19 in China, Bao Yuming’s sexual assault on daughter’s case caused a sensation throughout the country. As the initiator, I Initiated an art project on childhood sexual assault from 2020 to 2021. I have collected the materials of Victims through Sina Weibo, etc.
I have collected hardly more than 30 Victim-volunteers who are stand up and provide materials to us. I found most of the perpetrators are acquaintances, including teachers, stepfathers, cousins, etc. The categories of sexual assault also include rape, obscenity, sexual harassment, sexual abuse, exposure, etc.
I do not intervene, present it completely according to the wishes of the victims. I try to explore the psychological problems left after trauma encountered in the process of modernization in China, and the changes and effects of the victims ‘ psychological process during and after the whole event. More importantly, I want to make people pay attention to the current living conditions of the victims and the impact.

Times paradise

I call everything that can flow, pass and flow fragrant is a paradise.

These forgotten amusement parks have disappeared due to the development of the times, the process of urbanization and the diversification of entertainment activities. Most of the amusement parks in China have been eliminated, and the well-operated amusement parks in China account for only 10% of the total. Most of the eliminated amusement parks are caused by abnormal development.

After the housing reform in 1998, most amusement parks, in order to obtain real estate interests, many real estate developers enclosure and sell houses on the grounds of building large amusement parks. Nominally, they build large amusement parks in order to improve people’s entertainment life. In fact, they real estate amusement parks. Due to the lack of long-term expected and prepared planning of amusement park projects, after real estate developers obtained high real estate benefits, amusement parks were abandoned due to poor management and mass closure. These failed projects have brought great negative effects for a long time.

Similarly, due to the plagiarism and imitation in the same period, the amusement park model is single and repeated, and the homogenization is serious. A large number of amusement parks are almost mechanical imported amusement facilities, coupled with some greening facilities, which have no characteristics, resulting in no competitive advantage. In recent years, due to the epidemic, some amusement parks have been abandoned. Therefore, people gradually lose interest in these large number of single and repeated amusement parks, and these amusement parks are gradually forgotten.

In these amusement parks, due to the backwardness of concepts and technology, there are also some problems due to aesthetic and design problems, which also result in the phenomenon of local flavor and being vilified. There are a large number of amusement facilities and installations with serious local flavor and low aesthetics, as well as a short board in their own culture. This is also one of the reasons why modern amusement parks are forgotten.

After my later visits, some amusement parks photographed by me have restored their function of benefiting the people. This is a good phenomenon. However, many amusement parks are still abandoned in that place.

At the same time, it is also a “Chronicle” of Chinese amusement parks, from the earliest simple children’s Park to landscape park, then to amusement parks dominated by sightseeing and mechanical entertainment, and later theme parks. This seems to be one of the many changes in the way Chinese people entertain.

I found these forgotten amusement parks through some Chinese Internet platforms, such as xiaohongshu, satellite maps and friends’ introductions. These once bustling places are now abandoned and forgotten. They seem to be singing in sorrow. Here, I met some people who came here to look for memories and childhood. In the process of their search, these people expressed some emotions – search, hesitation, hesitation and hope. I joined them and joined them as a former role. I also tried to restore some iconic elements of the times and reconstruct these elements with the forgotten amusement parks of all ages. Time has faded the color here, but the color is still gorgeous, but full of loneliness.

When I saw these landscapes, I was touched by these scenes. Combined with my senses, I made 40 poems and some literal understanding. These poems are about the emotions brought by the amusement park to me. These emotions are continuous, and I look for the dreams and memories of my childhood in this image and text.

I am also trying to discuss how the amusement park lost its functionality, and the animals returned to the abandoned land to live again in the media of these abandoned amusement parks. What is the relationship between them and the amusement park, and how is it developed, and what new relationship forms exist between people and the abandoned land. This is what I want to explore.

In this era facing the impact of multiple entertainment cultures, I hope to use these forgotten images and some of my words to reconstruct the amusement park you dreamed of in your childhood dreams. I also hope that these entertainment activities that can bring joy to contemporary people will be valued and respected again. This is also a long-term project of mine, and I will continue to record it.

46mins Drama/Performance Art

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt22756522

Director/Writer: Zhou Chengzhou

I accidentally intruded into the lives of people who were leaving, and I didn’t know where they had gone. When they were gone, I saw that these concrete structures that once had life in them were now absurd and cold little grids, like a towering coffin. So I kept a part of them that once existed in their lives. Giving them a new place to go.

25mins Documentary

Director/Writer: Zhou Chengzhou

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt21211934/

In most parts of China, some inanimate devices make a kind of low roar, like a noise, to attract people’s attention.

The inorganic objects themselves cannot make a sound, the director creates a relationship, a connection with the inorganic objects through himself, an organic object, and the director makes those inorganic objects make their own sound through this particular way.

1hr31mins Drama

Director/Writer: Zhou Chengzhou

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjJpEK3yIfA

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt19409272

 

This is adapted from a true story that happened in China. It tells the story of a woman living alone in the contemporary context of China. The protagonist is Xiaomei. She came to the big city of Beijing alone from her hometown and worked and lived in her own unique and free way. She encountered many unexpected contradictions and conflicts in the process of work and life.

This film presents the story of a real woman living alone. Where is her last way? What is her real living state like? I hope that through this film, people can see the living conditions of those minority women from different angles, and try to use the way of film to explore the real situation and real mentality of Chinese women in the contemporary context of Chinese society.

Part of the film is in the form of real record, and the other part is presented in the form of real story adaptation.

In China, it was only around 2000 that the gender perspective was incorporated into all kinds of sociological research. The director tries to do some free discussion through the prominent social sensitive issues of women in the film, such as employment, women’s rights and freedom, marriage and family. This is a true story. This woman is one of the awakening of self-consciousness of a large number of Chinese women. She is one of the new free women. She hopes to realize the desire of de sexualization through economic independence and ideological independence. It is also a struggle against the traditional concept of women, but her work is not recognized by the society, but also a marginal work. But to fight in her way and work in her way to survive, the director also wants to explain from some less well-known angles that women present the real living state of a few women in the contemporary context of China with their work content and life attitude, but often women still need a long way to obtain relative equality in society, In the film, there are too many unequal attitudes of the public towards women’s rights and freedom. The director tries to convey the view of women’s freedom in this way. The protagonist actively pursues women’s own independence and the desire to follow their own choices in life.

26mins Drama

Star: Liu Junli, Li Yuan, Chen Chen, Wangguoqing, Zhang Run, Gao Yunzi, Wang Yike, Zhao Yuanjie, Zhou Chengzhou, Hu Danya

Director/Writer: Zhou Chengzhou

Trailer: https://vimeo.com/505527407

IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt14012284/

This is the second part of Conscious Desire Trilogy series. The first film is called Sub-subconscious. It mainly expresses people’s appearance and inner world in the form of subconsciousness.

The second part is Called Unreflex Land, which means that it is a place without reflection, including physical reflection and human consciousness reflection. It’s like being driven forward by some kind of consciousness. Zhou Chengzhou, who tries to explore the New-Humanity and New-Possibility of the unknown space through a channel without reflection in his heart.

When the master wakes up, he finds that he is in a strange space, which is full of all kinds of sounds. He didn’t know how he got to this place. He keeps running, and then a series of mysterious events happen in this space, which makes him unable to distinguish between nothingness and reality…