(High volume recommended)
Water Prison - Interpretive Meditation, Shanghai China
A site-specific performance and mixed media installation
Chinese ink stone, ink stick, water, rope, plastic basins of various sizes
"At any rate, you have one (or several). It's not so much that it preexists or comes ready made, although in certain respects it is preexistent. At any rate, you make one, you can't desire without making one. And it awaits you; it is an inevitable exercise or experimentation, already accomplished the moment you undertake it, unaccomplished as long as you don't. This is not reassuring because you can botch it. Or it can be terrifying, and lead you to your death. It is nondesire as well as desire. It is not at all a notion or a concept but a practice, a set of practices. You never reach the Body without organs, you can't reach it, you are forever attaining it, it is a limit. People ask, So what is this BwO?- but you're already on it, scurrying like a vermin, groping like a blind person, or running like a lunatic; desert traveler and nomad of the steppes. On it we sleep, live our waking lives, fight- fight and are fought- seek our place, experience untold happiness and fabulous defeats; on it we penetrate and are penetrated; on it we love." Deleuze and Guattari - Body Without Organs,1987
Filmed and edited by: Eddie Li, Shanghai
