Jue Ju

绝句

Jueju * RISD independent Study, Winter Session

Documentation video_2010.1

If one considers the values of the industrial world, they belong to the field of “uselessness”. “They seem to revert to the old relationship between primitive man/animals and environment.

It is a type of Chinese poet, which is writing in only five words to describe a scenery/Landscape. The five projections are visual videos that I created to talk about the story of people and nature. Besides these five video projections I add two disharmony factors into this piece. One is colored-planes/rocket the other is dust/soot. Mote/dust drops placidly. In here, dust as metaphor not a thing. I design the plane fly from left to the right when it travels through five screens with the dust. The plane transforms its shape into big rocket with stronger dust. The rockets continued intrusion in the scenes of people’s life that caused by the increasingly serious damage and pollution. The screens as storyboard have specific culture content they all selected from Cheng Shi Mo Yuan, which is one of the most famous Chinese philosophy books. About the sound: As I want the audience to pay attention on the work itself so I think it might be effective if everything is near-silent and then the plane and the dust enter loudly with realistic sounds. It could also help me to highlight the difference between these two worlds.  

Individual video frames