On the beach of Guishan Island, a stone installation. Under the stones, a soundtrack performed in situ: sound of footsteps from the shipyard to the edge of the sea, sound of a phrase repeated during the walk: "Dream of earth without boundaries dream of earth without boundaries, dream of earth without boundaries .... Dream of birds without boundaries. Without boundaries without boundaries ..."
The audience, invited to gather around the pile of stones to listen to the soundtrack, can follow in the landscape a body dressed in black. Gradually, this body is getting closer. We can see that this body carries a big stone.
Approaching the sea, the body lays the stone on a rock and then rises in balance, facing the sea.
Faraway, we can perceive the flag of China. The flag of a nation.
Nearby, facing the flag, a hand rises and brandishes feathers, these escaping to the horizon: "Birds without boundaries.... without boundaries...."
On the rock, remains the the stone, some feathers and sunflowerseeds.
Photos © Béatrice Didier, Beate Linne & Yifei Hu
This performance was created in the context of Open Art Performance Festival,
curated by Chen Jin and Yifei Hu.
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