‘Missing you’
According to CCTV statistics, China has 21,917 people are missing every day, and in the past minute, 15 people have just disappeared.
Old people were lost on the streets, young people were taken away, pretty girls were dragged into the sewers, and depressed person went into the deep ocean. Among those missing population, some of them are still exist somewhere in this world. some of them are happy, but some are painful. Some of them died naturally and some of them unnaturally died. Some neither die or be alive, but just not in the same time and space as us, they might in another world or society, might even be alone in one individual space and exist forever. We are now in the era of big data, especially in China where monitors are everywhere, but there are still so many people disappeared. The disappearance is similar but more complicated than death. One’s death will be gradually forgotten as time goes by, but the missing person has been a knot at that time, becoming an unanswered question, becoming a lock without a key, disappearing into the endless universe.
Death and disappearance. In the concept of ‘social death’, when a person has no form of existence in the society, even if he or she is still alive, he or she still be considered as died in the society. But if the missing person is still remembered by anyone, then he or she is still exist. The anxiety generated by relatives leads them to insist that the missing person exists in the “somewhere” of the “world” and they cannot easily face to the possibility of missing people being killed or dying in other reason. Anxiety forces them willing to search every corner of the world
I can't do anything for the full screen of the searching notice except for the huge powerlessness. Time and space compress us here without telling us where we are going. Humans are like the sphere that balances on the top of an triangle. We really has no idea about where are we gonna fall in the next second. I hope that I can use a space, and the six inner walls of this cube space are covered with dense and colorful searching notices. There is a painful story behind everyone, or a painful story of a group of people. I will explain this story as much as possible (translate every notice), and I can see their portraits, some in happy and some looks chill which nobody knows when did it was shot. as well as a short description of the appearance, appearance looks like the signs of preventing loss that are given by god before we born. When the notice is posted indoors, it can't play his essential role, but everyone on the wall has become a basic factor in this space, which constitutes a large number of groups(missing population). The human community feels suffocated because people got lost so randomly. And those missing people’s lives are not fundamentally different from us, all of them are also ordinary human beings within normal lives. Such similarities give us fear and anxiety, which is worthy of deep thinking and improvement as much as possible.
At the same time, I also plan to do a performance art, which gonna be documented in video form and play on the wall in the space I mentioned in the previous paragraph. I want to print out the little boy's notice and paste it in every corner of the "world." Sticked to a taxi in New York, posted on the upper floor of the Empire State Building, posted in the corner of the small restaurant, posted on the tree in the Royal Mountain, stuck in the grass of the Syracuse, on the top of the train, on the side of the Starbucks trash can, On the iron sheet of the subway, on the shelves of the mall, behind the pots, under the pool.
Everything that can be reached has to be posted. Because the relatives whose family members are missing, the anxiety and desperation cannot be alleviated by any factors. Their constantly searching may be the only way to alleviate their anxiety. They blame themselves for the no result. They treat themselves as wrong and should be punished because they firmly believe that they and the missing people are still under the same blue sky. I want to choose this little boy as the content of the notice because his whole process makes me very shocked and desperate. The little boy’s leg was cut off, his right eye was dug, his tongue was cut, and he was see as a tool for begging, this perfectly matches one words: hell is other people. The little boy was taken away and left his parents since he was born and this objective and rational explanation comes from the police. This calm description on the notice is even more terrifying in the face of desperate humanity.
社会政治语境研究项目：想念／寻找你
死亡，消失。在社会性死亡的概念里，当一个人在社会中已经没有任何形式的存在，哪怕还有生命也是已经社会性死亡。但如果失踪者一旦还被任何人记住，那他就并没有真正意义上的死亡。亲属产生的焦虑感导致他们坚持认为失踪者存在于“这个世界”的“某个角落”，而不会轻易面对被害或其他真正死亡的可能性。焦虑迫使他们找遍整个世界的每一个角落。
第一个作品形式（视频与照片记录）这个行为艺术时长2个月，我分别在北美大约100个角落张贴了中国成都失踪男孩刘素珍的寻人启事。整个行为过程以视频形式记录下来，并在展厅的墙上播放。寻人启事被贴在“世界上”的小角落。 贴在纽约的出租车上，贴在帝国大厦楼上，贴在小饭馆的墙角里，贴在皇家山的树上，贴在雪城的草地里，火车的顶上，星巴克的垃圾桶边，地铁的铁皮上，商场的货架里，花盆的后面，水池的下面。一切能翻得到的地方，因为对家人失踪的亲属来说，那种焦虑和绝望感无法因为任何因素而得到缓解，不停的寻找可能是唯一缓解焦虑的出路，甚至会因为找不到而自责，认为找不到是自己的过错因为他们坚信他们和失踪者还在一片蓝天下。我想选这位小男孩作为寻人启事的内容因为他的整个过程都让我非常震惊绝望复杂。这位小男孩被砍断双腿，右眼被挖，舌头被割，被人拐去作为乞讨的工具，非常完美的验证了他人即地狱。这位小男孩生下来就被抱走，离开父母。这个客观有理性的解释来自警方，这种冷静在令人绝望的人性面前更令人感到可怕。与此同时，他被贴在了不可能出现又人流量非常大的地方。我敢肯定有上千人浏览过这张寻人启事并得知这位男孩失踪，也就是说他并没有社会性死亡，他还在被人们感知，他就算死了，也没有死。
第二个作品形式（照片记录，文件夹名：展厅纪录):对于满屏幕的寻人启事除了巨大的无力感以外我什么都来感受不到。时间和空间将我们压缩在这里，又不告诉我们真正的去向。人类就像这一秒平衡在三角体尖端的球体，根本不知道下一秒会往哪倒。我利用一个空间，在这个立方体空间的内壁上都贴满密密麻麻彩色的寻人启事。每个人背后都有一个痛苦的故事，或者是一群人痛苦的故事，我会尽可能解释这个故事（翻译每一个寻人启事），还能看得见他那张不知道什么时候拍的冷漠或快乐的照片，以及一串不长不短的外貌描述，就像生下来就被给予防止丢失的标志，就像我描述的我刚丢失的那串手串。当寻人启事被贴在室内固然没法发挥他的本质作用，但每个人在这个空间内都成为了一个基础因素，构成了一批拥有庞大数量的群体，因为这个群体的产生是如此的random，以致使人类群体感到窒息，因为他们和我们并没有本质区别，且都是拥有正常生活的普通人类，这样的相似给予我们的惶恐和不安，是值得整个社会深思以及尽可能改善的。
