岜扒/BAPA

-⼆零⼀九
-⼤地
-⾏为
-侗族⼤歌
-实验音乐与单频录像1080p， 4K，
-14 分钟，循环播放，播放尺⼨可变
-地点：从江县侗族岜扒村，贵州，中国

-2019
- Land art
- Performance art
- Kam Grand Choirs with Experimental music
- Single channel video
- 14 mins, loop, 1080p, 4K
Display dimensions variable
- Location: Dong Village, Guizhou, China

时、空、⾳、⾊展开游观之下的境与界。
嶙峋的⼭峦悬隔在四时之外， 古⽊参差之幽绝触于当下，
如⼼时显，
既游于万古长空之境，万古同时之界。
由象见⼼之灵境，此当际与莽远在渺小与⽆垠之间回旋，徘徊于虚实，
推⽽远、反⽽近，虚待万影婆娑立现。
以⾊追⾊，当知极⾊处致幻影虚灵，
蹈光蹑影舍眼中景，
取⼼中境， 塑虚形乃续势之⼒，
捕势即破开合之寓，开合向背虚灵不昧⽅归⽣命之本。

⼀块红布挂在⼀块巨⽯上。

巨⽯位于贵州黔东南岜扒村外，颇有来历：相传在明朝时，
侗王吴勉放⽜经过此地遇见⼀个侗族孕妇，
问：“你可见我赶的⽜？”
孕妇不解的说：“我不见⽜，只见⽯⼭在移动。”
这时，⽯⼭突然停了下来。王勉⼀鞭挥了出去，⼭⽯瞬间变成了三截，
⼀截飞到西⼭，⼀截飞到岜扒，还有⼀截留在了贯洞。
孕妇当场被吓到发髻歪了。故今这也是侗族妇⼥的发髻总是歪在⼀边的来历。
这块巨⽯被当地奉为了神⼭，每年初⼀村民们都会在⼭下祈求来年，风调雨顺，五⾕丰登。

“垂直的红⾊”在神⼭上与日间耕作，傍晚归家的村名们相伴了三个日夜，
待第四个破晓之时它就消失了，如今村⼦里又 多了⼀个有关红⾊瀑布的传说。

Time, space, sound and color, altogether, unfold the realms and dimensions revealed by the roaming observation.
The jagged mountains are suspended outside the confines of four seasons, while the secludedness of ancient trees lays its finger on the present moment.
Just as if the heart would unveil its temporal being,
one would be roaming in the realm of eternal extensity and the dimension of eternal simultaneity.
The spiritual realm of the heart is presented by miriads of images. The current moment and the vast distance are swirling between minutia and immensity, lingering between virtuality and reality,
pushed away but seems closer, waiting, in vain, for thousands of secular façades to appear.
In the pursuit of forms, one would eventually realize that to the extreme, forms exist among phantoms and ethereal spirits in virtuality.
Treading lights and shadows, one forsakes the scenery in the visual organ and shifts to acquire the state of the heart’s realm. Sculpting of the virtual forms are for the continuation of a momentum.
The momentum is caught to fracture the residence of openings and closures. When the ethereal spirits are unobscured from dualities of openings and closures, towards orientations and backwards ones,
the root of life can be returned to.


“Vertical Red” on a gray-white boulder.

The giant boulder is located outside of the Bapa Village in Qiandongnan, Guizhou. It has quite an origin story: Legend has it that in the Ming Dynasty,
Wu Mian, the king of the Dong, passed by the village herding cattle. He had an encounter with a Dong pregnant woman,
“Can you see the cattle I drove?”, asked the king.
“I can’t see any cattle, only a moving rock.” The pregnant woman replied in confusion.
All of the sudden, the boulder ceases its movement. Wu Mian swung his whip, and the boulder instantly split into three sections.
One flew to Mount Xi, one reached Bapa Village, and one remained in Cave Guan.
The pregnant woman was so frightened that her hairbun became crooked. This is also the reason why Dong women’s buns are always crooked to one side.
This boulder is locally enshrined as a sacred mountain. Every new year, villagers pray under the mountain for good weather and good crops.

The "Vertical Red" was on the mountain for three days, it accompanied the villagers day and night.
At the fourth dawn, it disappeared ... and now there is another folk tale about the “Red Waterfall”.