"Art East Village" is located in Dashanzi Village, five kilometers behind the Beijing Great Wall Hotel, East Third Ring Road, Beijing. There are many stinky ponds and mountainous garbage beside the village. At that time, it was reported to describe the "Art East Village" as follows: "On the muddy road of the village in the eastern suburbs of Beijing, there are wandering wild dogs and keeping them. The long-haired and thin-faced blind-flow artist lives here. In addition to the local farmers to non-governmental farmers, there are also a large number of idle people who go to Beijing from other places to pick up garbage. Due to the cheap rent and low consumption, some poor artists also choose to live here.
This bad environment has triggered me to think about people's living conditions. The reality of lonely and helpless life often reminds me of my childhood experience. I spent three years between the ages of ten and thirteen in the hospital. At that time, I had severe hepatitis A and tuberculosis. For three years, I took medicine and injections every day. I smelled the unpleasant smell of Laish water, and deeply realized the fragility and helplessness of life. This experience made my young heart realize the existence of disability and the nothingness of the soul
The work of "self-treatment" is an idea that germinates under this premise. The behavior process of the self-treatment work is as follows: ask a professional nurse to plunge eight empty disposable syringes into my biceps and buttocks on both sides, pull off the syringe in five minutes, jump up and smash the plaster face underground, and then complete the work for a total of 15 minutes.
The direction of the work is to treat yourself symbolically for the limitations of the body and the disability of the mind.
The work "trampling face" is to make 70 to 80 plaster faces every day according to your own face for two months. Each plaster face is marked with production time. A total of 1,500 plaster faces are made, and then the plaster faces are placed in the courtyard and the audience is invited to step on them. The work will be completed within a week.
The direction of the work is an irony for the replicative dissolution of human nature in the commodity era, reflecting the loss of yourself.
