This work puts together the world of Empedocles - a Greek pre-Socratic philosopher, the world of a future astronaut, the world of animals, and the daily contemporary world today. The visual space in the work is not real, but it can be more authentic than all the worlds. This work puts together the world of Empedocles, the world of a future astronaut, the world of animals, and the daily contemporary world today. The visual space in the work is not real, but it can be more authentic.
Is every human being from a different world? If one can communicate in a deeper way with another, then the ‘others’ may be better than the ‘hell’ in Sartre’s words.
Feng Bingyi_Compounded Performance,2019 from A Thousand Plateaus on Vimeo.
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