Site-specific Installation | Three Life Times, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms, 2022

UHD video, 04 min 52 sec (sound, color)

This project examines the evolution of aesthetics within China's digital culture. During the modernization process, certain radical reformers sought to eliminate everything they deemed "unprogressive." In this atmosphere, aesthetics gradually transformed into an ideology, leaving the body as the last refuge.

In 2012, the emergence of Kwai disrupted traditional narrative structures, becoming the most influential short-video platform of its time. This digital space offered unprecedented freedom of expression, allowing individuals to fully embody and perform their unique identity constructs. However, by 2018, the platform faced regulatory changes for violating social morality, and with these changes, the once-vibrant vernacular aesthetics began to fade.

The title of the piece Three Life Times, Ten Miles of Peach Blossoms is taken from a popular song among Kwai (the track is considered vulgar by the mainstream media). I rearranged and choreographed the dance and music that was once popular among the Kwai, and freely traveled and danced in a virtual 3D body theater. At the same time, I manifesto by the perceptive ability that has been rigidly held hostage by rights and the aesthetic right that yearns for liberation.