Tameness｜驯熟
Looping Animation, 2015
Tameness is a loop animation. Growing up in China, I remember when I was a child, the very first thing they taught me in school is the gesture I showed in this video. "Now put your hands behind you, and don't move." As if there is an invisible rope to tie up your hands. They call this class manner. I don't know if kids today are still trained in this way, but as an artist, now I can obviously catch the hidden meaning underneath this symbolic gesture. It is training for youth to follow the authority, first effects on body, and then goes to mind. I believe in this single gesture, the secret of contemporary China history has been revealed, and more than that, it even prophets the future of this country, as the infinite loop of this animation itself, there is neither end nor hope for this inescapable stillness of the history.
某一次偶然回想起刚上小学时，老师从最初就开始反复训练我们去服从的一个动作：双手放在背后端正地坐好。这个动作是我们小时候被训练出来的上课标准姿势。我不知道现在的学生是否还被要求这么做。现在看来这个动作的隐含意义就已预示了我们的历史和命运。而这个作品所创造出来的封闭的空无一物的空间里，除了循环往复而又徒劳无功的镜头空间运动之外，没有任何其他的出逃的可能性存在。
Tameness｜驯熟
Still image.
动画静祯。