段英梅 · Yingmei Duan

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My future

Duration: approx. 60 min.

Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste Braunschweig, Germany, 2001
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 2001
National Sculpture Factory in Cork, Ireland, 2001
Viafarini, Milan, Italy, 2002

Photographer: Jae-Eun, Jung

Live performance

Everything is futile and a striving for castles in the air. All things are wearisome. What profit does a man have in all of his hard work under the sun? Everything is empty! (Ecclesiastes )

I am buried on the street under old cardboard boxes, lumps of stone, branches and fallen autumn leaves. I am dressed like a beggar, sleeping the sleep of the dead. Vinegar concentrate gives me the smell of decay. The world has totally abandoned me.