段英梅 · Yingmei Duan

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Old water

Duration: approx. 5 min. (dependent on the audience)

Hochschule fuer Bildende Kuenste Braunschweig, Germany, 2000
Staedt. Museum Zwickau, Germany, 2000
Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland, 2001

Photographer: Unknown

Live Performance

Life has got many sides to it. It can be beautiful, annoying, sad, a lot of fun, boring etc. Sometimes I feel like the dregs of society. But no matter what happens, life carries on.

Wearing my “wedding dress” I stand between two rows of white plastic buckets that are filled with freezing water. The audience splashes water at me. I do not move. This is my “wedding”.