Documents, Events 文件，事件

Creator(s)

Jian-Wei WANG 汪建伟

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Date

1993

Format

Photograph

Materials

Light bulb, bags, plastic tubes, drip bottle, and more.

Description

In this installation, it seems that Wang tries to transmit the liquid in three drip bottles into a plastic/glass tank, of which is filled with other materials like plastic bags. No clear description, however, has been given to indicate whether the liquid is transmitted (via plastic tubes) or not -- the installation could be a static one rather than a dynamic one. However, regardless of its states, we know that one story Wang might wish to tell with this work is that every part of the work -- however minute -- is inter-influencing itself and others, creating new states, new significances (even when the work is statically installed). Observing and analyzing processes/states of substance is the key here, as Wang demonstrated in other works as well. (Wang, Artist Note on "Documents, Events", 1993, see Zhou Document; see also 星光耀东方，《星光耀东方》专访中国当代艺术家汪建伟，available on https://m.sohu.com/n/355783256/). (Jerry Wu'23).