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  • Curiosity and the Cat

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    by 泥人 laiyanPROJECTS and Studio Bibliothèque
    July, 2008



    A cat, with nine lives, would probably be killed by its curiosity. Everyday it takes risks. It climbs up trees to catch singing birds. It soaks its feet in the pool to touch swimming fish. It goes up the roof to grab the tempting moon. If I have a before-life, I must have been a cat.

    Crowds of bodies on the hectic street are walking through the traffic lights, marching with their mechanical faces, working with planned routines. They seem unconscious. Among the concrete buildings, there is one overwhelming quality that withdraws me from the coldness and boredom, guides me to explore the secret of life, and influences my perspectives, which I express through the language of art. It is curiosity — to satisfy it preoccupies me. It is curiosity that brings me to the meaning of life and death. It is curiosity for knowledge, people and self.

    The land of endless knowledge is a paradox. To a great extent, I gain my knowledge by satisfying my curiosity. For instance, when I want to write a poem, I read. I find automatic poetry. I go through the works of poets. Realising the poets work with the subconscious and surrealism, I read Sigmund Freud. Before long, I am on to The Doors of Perception, The Psychedelic Experience and knowledge about drugs. On and on, there is an endless learning, understanding and very likely, a suffering that cannot be stopped within my capability. This is a gain to my life. Still, it is knowledge that controls me. It means I forget to work until I cannot struggle anymore. Shortly I would confess my sin of not being productive and be numbed by the fruitful satisfaction of my curiosity for knowledge, allowing time to pass by and introduce her loyal friend – death.

    Strictly speaking, I am guilty of invading other people’s private life. Strangers fascinate me. Public weblogging about personal lives and social networking websites have made the concepts of public and private life obscure. Everyone can surveil another for socialisation, personal interest or any creative purpose. The background, the circle, the encounter and the views on me and of the ones I admired always intrigue me. Spending immeasurable time peeping at strangers’ lives, I gather different perspectives and knowledge from their thoughts and experiences for my own use. My addiction to my curiosity of other people is satisfied temporarily, but soon I want more.

    The curiosity about myself is surprisingly insignificant. None of my emotions, expressions, decisions or habits have been carefully studied by me. Without doubt, I can observe that the value I attach to the outside world is excessively more than that about myself. Maybe it is because the diversity of the world allows infinite possibilities. It is uncertain if an artist’s consciousness of the society and his or her self-awareness are interrelated. Personal advancement is, however, certainly hindered by self-ignorance and the lack of reflection.


    Automatic poetry is poetry created using surrealist method that the content being written does not come from the conscious thoughts of the writer.

  • Fall

    2008 Digital Video
    Colour & Sound 5′51″
    Exhibited in

    Augen-Blick 2.0 – Mirroing ChinaFyoer und Quergalerie, Universität der Künste, Berlin, 2008
    Arrest – An exhibition of frozen time and spaceNo. N5, Cattle Depot Artists Village, Hong Kong, 2008

    About the life in Amsterdam and Hong Kong in memories –
    The impact of differences in time, rhythm of life, values, and even the colour of the sky

    The oppositional thought towards capitalism and media consumption style in Hong Kong
    The distortion of time and abstraction of daily life and the will to escape from struggle from returning

    秋落
    2008 數碼錄像
    彩色和
    聲音 5′51″

    展覽
    視界 2.0 – 鏡像中國德國柏林藝術大學主樓展廳, 2008
    Arrest – An exhibition of frozen time and space香港牛棚藝術村N5室, 2008

    關於阿姆斯特丹和香港生活的回憶
    不同的時間觀
    生活節奏感價值觀甚至天空顏色交錯帶來的衝擊
    對抗港式資本主義和媒體消費模式的思緒
    扭曲掉的時間 抽象化的軼事
    逃避現實

  • 9 March 2008

    Image is innocent
    Sound is naive
    Text is merely a kid
    They follow
    a list of wish
    of their mother’s need

    Shouting all the time,
    the crowd is
    I found myself sitting
    how I want to be

    Pleasing everyone
    I cannot be
    Yet I could show
    some sights very honestly

    Among the concrete trees
    I am looking for a little key
    to open the door of perception
    to sail the ship of relation
    voyage of frozen moments
    bizzare and absurb lemons

    22h

  • 8 March 2008

    Pity kind of sweet
    Pity kind of kiss
    kiss the lemon swiss
    As I went of a slip
    I saw the kindly witch
    I saw the lazy kid
    And I smile for pity

    The craft of sweet and kiss
    the myth of
    what I live for
    where I sleep on
    When I fall
    how I meet
    the beautiful witch
    the adorable she

    Man like me
    should care for nothing
    but freedom of speech
    The red circle
    turns to the green glass
    the green shadow
    means the dream class

    Dreaming is always
    as realistic as
    the birth of bean
    blossom of ginger
    metaphor of the old

    The lamp
    one and two of them
    three and four
    go fro
    through the door
    the perception of all
    and ignition of fire

    The core of more
    and the soul of sour
    are meant to be the law of all
    without hate or adore

    The stars are shinning at
    the jaws
    The passage through the mall
    turn into a ball
    rolling into the moral life
    bathing in the oil of the
    permanent dirt
    based on
    bricks scattered
    along the pavement
    through the journey
    space of odyssey
    time of all
    all of all

    03h

  • 4 March 2008

    Scream to the shadow
    darkside of the window
    share with fellows
    the lonesome travel
    on the killing pistol

    The apple trees of electricity
    The glass door of plasticity
    An elephant of radioactivity
    A man lack of individuality
    were lost
    in the green corridor
    would never please
    the stupid wish
    of kitsch

    15h

  • Shum Shui Po

    3 March 2008

    The maze, the crowd
    the men, the smell
    of what we’ve seen
    and where we are

    The cow in the pool
    on the hot thin wire
    four baptists go into the metal tower
    for the memory of future,
    the sound of letters,
    the paintings of numbers,
    the pages of colours

    The gold mine is empty
    The river is slow
    The shoes are empty
    Floating from the rail

    The soul is empty
    The hands are old
    The body is empty
    Soaking in the oil

    Preserve the gold mine
    and the sand dunes
    from the wind
    and the blow
    from hands
    and growth

  • In the cotton sea

    1 March 2008

    On the land of cotton flowers
    sea of cotton trees
    A boat is sailing east
    The doors are locked tight

    Vehicles are surfing in the wind
    Dusts are snowing on my skin

    The shinny waves run through the curtain
    There is no one beside me and my heroine
    I heard the symphony of odyssey
    through the drums
    yelling at me

    On this land of cotton flowers
    Sea of cotton trees
    I refused to leave
    but I have to
    I must

    13h

  • An apple in the MTR

    29 February 2008 20h30
    A child is yelling
    with a yellow backpack
    His father is sitting still
    holding him

    Started to be annoyed
    scolding the little head
    Awaiting, looking, what to be happened-

    fighting, hitting,
    the little trousers
    the tiny shoes, ran away
    Fading, the noise is

    The mot shouts
    The little apple
    is cute

  • 29 February 2008

    My toes are stoned
    stones in the concrete trees
    trees from a canned soup

    I saw she was marching home
    then she met a precious stone
    and she stopped for an hour alone

    The clouds are darkening the chrome
    running through the tallest building
    away from the cracking smoke

    Your face are washed with the tendering drop
    I hope you never stop
    from what you think of

    The smallest dice could fall
    on the golden glass
    as a kind of avant-garde

    Go, through the wall, through the bricks as long as you get never sick

    18h
    ———————————————————————–
    A clock of the end starts
    A man in a room shocks
    A sock with a square found
    on the slippery wooden floor
    under the falling ceiling
    a candle of ice blinking
    a joker lying
    on a cold black sofa
    from an italian vender
    in an ancient small town,
    away from the material, the colours, the sound.
    ———————————————————————–
    The grey rectangle, triangle, circle
    The steel strapes with yellow line, hairy line
    The hanging hands
    towering bodies
    the death with them

    My frame captures
    a lot of pictures
    without the lens,
    I am the machine
    ———————————————————————–
    Now I found,
    my pen takes pictures
    my hand treasures
    the great exposures
    of ideas existed in this lands
    an infinite space of me
    ———————————————————————–
    Sculptures avec literatures
    are my treasures
    and pleasures
    whatever is the creature
    I will not surrender

    21h

  • Poetry of Colours

    2008 web page
    dimension variable

    a website less than 10kb – about randomness and chance