Fourth Dimension

An interactive performance installation.


 

 


          West Installation View

There is conflicting information about the infamous incident at Tienanmen Square on June 4th, 1989. In any case, it was an unfortunate event. Hopefully history will clarify some of the facts in the future. Part of an ongoing art project initiated in 1980 entitled ABSS 1980- .

 

 

 

 

East Installation View

Performance scenes. During the performance, audience were being asked to remain on the western part of the gallery behind a taped division. The 'target skid' became a finished art piece only after arrows were being shot on the target. The show became completely installed after the video tape recorded during the performance with the cam-corder aimed at  the audiences from below the target, was being played in the VCR. The audiences had become performers and assistants in completing the 'Performance Installation' art piece.

  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

Audience performance (audiences were manipulated by the display of the art works on the wall into performing different gestures; particularly bowing or kneeling toward the Tienanmen Square poster hung on south wall).

 

Target with crumpled rice paper  with calligraphy in wash & ink from a poem by Emperor Shui-Tsi of the Ming Dynasty.  The poem is about the Emperor's desire  to give up his throne to become a monk (a subtle example of the 4th Dimension). When the calligraphy was on a sheet of rice paper it was in a 2-d form. It was in a 3-d form when it was in a ball shape, and the arrow represents the 4th vector of the 4th dimension. Shooting the arrows  was also a mean to use the 'air space' of the gallery space.

 

       

       More Audience Performances

4thDimension_artist_statement.jpg (29334 bytes)  

Artist Statement

Content ABSS 1l1w EMW Eye to Eye Paintings Fourth Dimension Art Things
O Canada! 80's Artworks Neo-scholars David Cheung WWCKF CCCA Contact