​Blood Mountain, Raining River, Performance/Performative Sculpture, 30min, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland, 2019.

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In this work, I had chosen a specific ground area outside an art gallery. I check the weather reports for chances of rain prior to the performance, and times the beginning of the performance to right before the rain starts. I use a small spoon and white powder (with red dye) to fill the gaps between the bricks on the ground. Under the wash of heavy rainwater, the powder mixes with red and runs through the gaps, covering all of the ground. After the performance is over, these red will ditches remain for a period of time, until after the next rain washes it away, and the ground returns to its original appearance, with only traces of the performance remaining. This piece combines discussion and nature intervention, as well as performance and sculpture. It practices the possibility of the temporality of materials in performance. Through combining the performativity of nature and the material, energy conversion was created, causing each to extend the boundaries of the performance and the sculpture. 

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Camera by Qiushi Chen.