Identification of Mental Issues |Seat Change.
There is an interaction with visitors. I will mix face pictures of “mental patients” and “normal people”. Then, let visitor choose which one belong to “mental patients”. Visitors will never known if they have a correct choice. Because there is not right or wrong answer. But they will receive a “ symptom recording” with some conversation, drawing or poem by me or someone who might have “mental issues” or not.
The key of this interaction is that I completely blurred the line between the mentally ill and the normal. And when people make choice, they will realize it’s a hard thing to distinguish which one is from “mental illness”, even though through the picture of face or poem or drawing. Because when you see content of these “symptom recording”, it like work by poet, artist or philosopher. I hope this interaction could dispel some of the stereotypes about mental illness to some extent.
在展览上与观看者有一个互动。我将一些精神病人和正常人的五官卡片混在一起，让观众去挑选他们所认为的是精神病人的五官。但并不会给他们挑选结果的答案，因为是否真的是精神病，这里没有标准答案。他们会收到一张诊疗单，上面记录着一些诗或画。这也有可能是精神病写的也可能是我或正常人写的。
这个互动的意义在于，我彻底的模糊了精神病人与正常人的界限。并在让人们互动的时候也体会到，他们很难区分，无论是他们的长相还是他们说的话或是画的画。因为没有人知道，如果把自己的五官或作品放进去，会不会被人挑选。我希望通过这个互动消除一些人们对精神病的刻板印象。
Take the London bus for 2 months, I observed and recorded what happened on the bus. Give boredom meaning, show people some social elements what they usually ignore to see: sound, perspective. . .
On the London bus, I can see some seemingly "strange" passengers more easily than in China. So I started to pay more attention to this kind of people, such as passengers who have been singing loudly all the time on the bus, passengers talking with empty seats, and passengers shaking his body on the bus. .
In a sense, other passengers may also think that I am strange. But in fact, there is not strange, just that everyone stands on their own perspective. In this narrow bus space, everyone has their own different Self-concept, Thus setting up their own discourse. In our , most people or people who have the right to speak have their common cognition to form order, but there is no right or wrong.
During the field trip, I made a video to show what I thought and watched, a singer who toured on the bus, a poet who created poetry, a contestant performing pole dance, and someone monitor us in somewhere and so on. .
乘坐伦敦公交2个月，观察并记录车上发生的一切。将无聊赋予意义，向人们展示平时他们所忽略甚至没有能力看到的一些社会元素：声音，视角等。
在伦敦公交车上，我比在中国更容易看到一些看似“奇怪”的乘客。于是我开始更加关注这类人群，比如在公交车上一直大声唱歌的乘客，和空座位交谈的乘客，原地疯狂摇摆的乘客…
在某种意义上，其他乘客可能也认为我是奇怪的，但其实这并非真正的奇怪，只是每个人站在自己角度的自我论。在这个狭窄的公交空间，每个人都有自己不同的认知，从而形成自己的秩序。而在大的社会环境下，秩序形成于多数人或有话语权的人，但并无是非对错。
在乘车期间，我将我所想，所看，用视频的形式展现出来，记录在公交车进行巡演的歌唱家，创作诗歌的诗人，跳钢管舞的参赛表演者，默默监视看着我们一切的人等等。。
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I met a men in bus136
He sang something loudly all the time
Passengers looked at him
with a weird expression
I can not hear clearly what he was singing
It's might be a poem
Or a beautiful sang
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