Dream Sequence 1 — Snails’ Transporter
Belfast, UK: 2024
Performed as part of Common GroundWork, a China–UK artistic exchange project presented by Bbeyond and supported by the British Council. I was invited as an artist from China to participate through performance and artist sharing.
50 min
2024
Writer’s Square, Belfast, UK
Process：
I enter with a suitcase, dressed in office clothes.
Moving toward a small piece of nature within the city,
the body gradually shifts back toward a more elemental state.
A chair is dug out from the grass.
I open the suitcase, put on green lipstick,
and prepare the materials inside.
Waiting slowly, I allow the snails in the box
to crawl onto my body.
Green traces begin to appear.
I then transfer them from my body to the tree.
Two snails fall asleep.
While waiting, I eat an apple.
I try to wake them by offering small pieces of it,
but they remain deeply asleep.
I place them beneath the tree.
The chair is returned to the ground.
The apple core goes back into the suitcase.
Stepping out of the grass,
I put my office clothes back on piece by piece,
and disappear into the crowd.
