Dreaming I
Information of works
Title: Dreaming I
Year:2019
Medium : Animation/Video
Sound sample：Laundry recording, Canteen and subway recording, Success science speech recording
Time: 45s
Dimension : Variable
Image credit: Zhongge Sui
作品信息
标题：Dreaming I
时间：2019
媒介：动画/影像
时长：45秒
尺寸：可变
图片：隋钟舸
Works statement:
There is an underground gambling activity in China- "Mark Six Lottery". It penetrates all aspects of people's life. It even becomes a greeting gesture by asking, "what you bought today?" I remember in my childhood, a group of adults was watching the Teletubbies together to predict winning numbers of the lottery. They are looking for clues and hints in discovering the regularity in disorders and chaos. Although the government has forbidden the lottery, it still remains in the lives of many people at the bottom of society.
So I started to investigate this phenomenon and discover their inner activities of buying lottery. By conducting field investigations and interviews of the gamblers, especially after I immediately participated in the lottery game myself, I was able to discover the abstract ideas in the gambler's mind. For them, the dreams of becoming rich overnight have decorated their cruel hardships of life and blinded them from seeing reality as the lowest social class.
作品介绍：
记得家乡过去流行一种地下赌博活动——“买码”。它渗透在市民生活的各个角落，甚至见面打招呼就是“今天买的什么波（号码）”，一群成年男女老人每天集体在家里看天线宝宝。到现在也还在一些地区和人群保留。于是我开始对这一荒诞的现象进行研究，并亲身投入到“买码”活动中，参与非法研究、讨论与投注。随着研究的不断的深入，发现“买码”的背后其实源于人们内心对于“梦”的渴望，在贫瘠的生活中寻找着对外来与未来的意义。于是用这个作品来表达对所处时代与集体的复杂状态感受。
人们总是会将自己相信的放大，但梦总是突然醒的，就像泡沫一般，越吹越大，最后啪地破灭，什么也没有，除了空虚。这个作品希望人们能在追求“梦”的同时，去回顾自身与社会之间的价值。每个个体都怀揣着各自的梦，这个集体的梦又是如何？梦给了我们些什么？什么是人们想看到的是真实？梦碎时分该如何面对现实的鸿沟？