Incident -- Process, State 事件 -- 过程，状态

Creator(s)

Jian-Wei WANG 汪建伟

Preview

Date

1993

Format

Slide

Exhibition Event Title

Exhibition of Accident (Event/Incident) -- Process, States

Date of Exhibition Event

1993

Location of Exhibition Event

Hong Kong Art Center, Hong Kong, China

Materials

Plastic tube, television,liquid, glass, and more

Description

Five processes seem to be required by this installation. The installation starts with 4 defaulted input of liquid. The four bottles of liquid then went through the first program -- of which perhaps involved filtering. The resulting (out-puting) four liquids from the first program were then taken as inputs for the second program, and acquired four different amount of liquids as a result. The process then repeated for three more time, amounting together to five times run-through of programs. In each process, ts results (was called "states") were observed and recorded, giving rise to a part of the artwork as a whole. The mechanical processes of input/output of an installation might play into Wang's metaphor for human knowledge/activity processing. A commonality is thus found in human and machinery works. (Yu, 在艺·看展 |美术馆唱K打游戏，张培力汪建伟冯梦波如何回应“美丽新世界”？, 2019, available on https://wemp.app/posts/fa8d9583-344b-4c67-b161-db0476d1aafa; see also Wang, Proposal for “Incident -- Process, State”, available in Zhou Document). (Jerry Wu'23).