Process of Action
Engage in walking activities daily.
I will only drink water and not eat any food during the 14-day period from April 15, 2024, to April 28, 2024.
I will wear only the same set of clothes, washing and drying them every day, and during the time spent scrubbing and drying the clothes, I will not use any garments for cover.
I want to attempt to illustrate how individuals, through pre-arranged events akin to a theatrical script, can use themselves as the subject of these events to escape their own state of self-awareness. Can this mode of operation become a 'natural' life experience? In this work, I repeatedly enact symbols of events preconceived in the mind, making them part of the everyday.
Through these repetitive actions, one discovers the unexpected nature of 'natural' life experiences. This is also a desire to break away from the predetermined facts of life and the struggle that comes with it, And attempt to make a predetermined event occur. As if wanting to control the appearance of one's life, only to then diverge from the state of life itself.
When these self-predetermined events are taken as a certain stance, it becomes an attempt to experiment whether the 'natural' life experience can indeed be a predetermined stance. When a life event occurs, how do we trace the source of that agitation and unease?
Constructed and arranged by others, this represents the 'natural' life experiences and events that appear in my mind. Interwoven events, through the process of being recorded and becoming images, detach an individual from the identity of a human being and instead position 'the event' as the subject of the person.
Finally, it becomes a deliberate arrangement of events, serving as a presentation of the inherent contradiction within 'natural' life experiences.
Narrative Entity - Construction of the Event
The practice of 'performance' leads us into a contemplation within the realm of the body. Walking—it is a gesture that delves deep into thought, and its connection to the body will symbolize my engagement in this performative art. This gesture is devoid of any purposeful intent. It explores a form of activity that, from an unconscious state, reaches a daydream detached from self-awareness while transcending the body's own state, all within a conscious framework.
The activities of the body and the realization of conscious experience allow me to more deeply actualize my pre-conceived events. And to challenge the repetitive generation within the 'natural' life experience and alter its essentialized heterogeneity.
