final project- cold

Mao Zekun 52638877

Zhang Yiwen 52631077

Mao Shu 53049903

Cold

Our group members are all very interested in Fluxus, Blast Theory and Generative idea. In the last few classes, we learned about the Generative Idea. We want to use this method to help us generate some ideas. And we all really want to do more Fluxus artworks, so we create our own Fluxus idea and perform them in a public place.

Zhang Yiwen and Mao Shu chose the word “cold” as their starting point of brainstorming. They generated the idea of wearing many clothes to stand for cold, and the idea of using ice-cream and ice to represent cold. They also combined the Fluxus thoughts to them, making the original ideas more unordinary and special. They also wanted to make our work like a complete performance. They thought that putting on the clothes was like the preparation or starting of the performance. So they added the action of taking a bow as the ending of the performance or the performer giving thanks to the audiences. Eventually, there were four actions. The first one is putting on all the clothes. The second one is giving the eaten ice-cream to people. The third one is kicking the ice. The last one is taking a bow to people.

The location was chosed by Mao Zekun, which is the Exit H of Kowloon Tong subway station. Mao Zekun do want to experience of doing some crazy Fluxus things in front of many people, so she volunteered to be the performer. They other two people didn’t tell her what she would do before. And we also wanted to try about the Blast Theory. So from this perspective, Mao Zekun became the person who did the directions while Zhang Yiwen and Mao Shu became the people who gave the directions. They used sending text messages by mobile phone to give the instructions. And Mao Zekun did everything they designed for her.

Before we started our project, we found that all the experimental artworks always focused on the process of making the works. They seldom recorded the reactions of audiences when they saw some crazy behaviors. Actually, we all wanted to find out what the reactions are when they see the crazy things. Thus, we wanted not only recorded our own performance, but also audiences reactions. Thus,ut what was happening around them. Most of they did not notice our performer, but just keeping walking fast. After the filming, we thought about it a lot. Nowadays, many people still can not accept or understand the experimental art, some even think they are not art. We think the reason maybe is that most of people seldom pay attention to the creative things happening around them in their daily life. Even they pay attention to the art area, they are so conservative that they can not accept the creative or crazy ideas.

The process of making this work is really great. We all very enjoy it. We just hope th at people could spend less time focusing on their smart phones, spending some time to notice any creative or unordinary things in their daily lives. that's why in our video sometimes Mao Zekun was out of focus while the audiences were in focus. During the process, we suddenly found out that the majority of people were not care abo