Live time: 89 minutes, video time: 18 minutes and 15 seconds
An exposition of the work “Healing Field × Handpan”
The whole performance work is carried out in a closed and dark space, which is divided into two parts, namely the construction and destruction of the “healing field”. It took one hour and 23 minutes to build and six minutes to destroy.
The performance art process is also composed of two timelines, one is the musician’s time line, and the other is the artist and the participant’s time line.
From a musician’s point of view, the people wearing black around him are the existence of nightmares. In the moment when he closed his eyes and thought, trouble was entering his world, little by little, binding his spirit until his thoughts were heavy. He began to beat the instrument, producing ethereal music to calm the agitation, while the white cotton thread became tangled with the rhythm of the musician’s body. An hour later, the musician broke free of the white cotton and walked lightly away from the center of the emotional storm. Time is here, the musician’s timeline is over.
At the same time, from the perspective of the artists and participants, they are building their own “healing fields” from the beginning. They hold the white cotton to lay the field bit by bit and hold their breath to feel the balance between the present field and their own energy. Until the white cottons in their hands spread all over the field, and then they each held a butter lamp and stood around the edge of the installation, as if preparing for a silent ceremony. When the artist finishes reciting “Goodbye to Heaven”, participants will randomly place the butter lamp on the “healing field”, just like the twinkling stars falling on the earth in the night, shining slightly on this dark field. At this point, the construction of the Healing Field is complete.
After a quarter of an hour, the artists and participants work from the edges of the installation to the center, destroying the white cottons, extinguishing the butter lamps, and removing the black cloth until only an empty space and a beam of top light remain on the scene.At this moment, the whole field returns to nothingness.
