A Piece on the Floor / Today

Participatory Installation

Date: Mar 2016

By having the date of each day written on the floor with chalk powder at the entrance of the exhibition space or any space where audience may have to walk pass. People had to step on it if they want to enter. As the written date gets fuzzier, the actual day is also passing by. At the end of the day, the written date may be gone just like the time of that day has gone. The actions of visiting at different times and dates transform into shoeprints. These physical, visual existences stay till the end of the show. Each day I used a different color chalk, in order to separate the dates. A different color of shoeprints would layer on top of those that were made in the past. The shoeprints were soon everywhere around the space as time passed by. I even found some in the ladies’ room on the same floor of the building. In this piece, the audience became the work through their interaction, and I became the audience.

“今天”是一件参与型装置作品。在展览空间人流量较大的区域，最好是动线必经区域，用彩色淀粉或粉笔在地面大面积写上当天的日期，如：2020.6.5 。具体面积按场地实际情况决定。颜色由艺术家随机决定。旁边放置信息牌告知路人/参与者这件作品的信息，欢迎大家踩踏、行走在其上。随着路人/参与者的踩踏，日期将逐渐模糊消失，正如这一天的时间一点点消逝一样。粉末也会随着路人/参与者的鞋印记录下众人在展示空间的足迹。仿佛将流动的时间和移动路线凝固、视觉化。这件作品通过公众和参与与互动，视觉化呈现时间的流动性和单向性。