Falling 2015 Color Digital Video with Sound 5 min., 11 sec Thieves in China usually steal the manhole covers and sell them for money, food and clothing, which often cause pedestrians’ falling into the well at night. One day I saw news that the man who felt into the manhole demanded compensation for accidents by saying that he would not go out until they pay him the money. He is the prototype of the falling man in this work. I kept the basic narrative clues and assigned the character a more absurd task. He is chattery, incoherent and illogical. He is sometimes like thoughtful Plato, sometimes like riffraff. In the end, he is locked in the darkness and the absurdity is forever kept in that enclosed space. This work does not function as mirror or criticism of moral decline or human alienation. Instead, I’m using my way of talking, to celebrate the absurdity with a subversive spirit.
