This artwork documents Wanhua’s largest
religious festival of year from day to night. It is “Night Patrol of the
Qingshan King” which lasts three days. The video was taken from high-altitude
and intensify the geographical landscape, creating the peeping eyes of the
protagonist in Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock, staring athe remains of a
seaside port culture. A “continued space” is shown to the audience when images
of four seemingly parallel streets are rotated and collaged. Through a fifth
screen, a religious parade team shows up, patrolling through the streets. The
“Night Patrol of the Qingshan King” is more than a lineal combination of
humanistic images of religious activities, sex workers, illegal street stands,
and tourists and travelers; it goes from societal to individual, reflecting a
“vagabond” state of the old town, where culture falls into pieces.
