When I was a child, I once saw a North Korean film which is called " Boidchi Annun Dchonson (the Invisible Battlefront)". I was deeply impressed with the consistent atmosphere that everyone was armed and fighting against the foreign hostile forces day and night. The phrase "Ubiquitous" came out naturally from it. I decided to use it as the title of the project (also the theme) because through this term, I could feel the existence of an ideological space that is invisible but somehow filled with various sensitive boundaries. Therefore, I hope that the non-visual and non-material medium of "sound" can be used to highlight such a context of reality: A politically-coded special space that seems to have become a past (a diplomatic residence compound which used to have diplomatic immunity), however, in the reality at this moment, is reactivated with full force as an ideological metaphor! (In fact, the space discourse as an ideology has never been away, even for one minute! It was simply being concealed in another way and has been revealed again now in a direct position. ) How do we test and respond to such a recurring reality? For me, to insert two real-life events with contextual relationship randomly into this apartment space through sound segmentation (22 sound clips), cover up the 22 Bluetooth speakers placed on the wall of each space with large white paper, and bring the live synchronized sound (any sound from this space, such as the sound of the discussion of the audience about the space projects, etc.) into the space of this apartment through wireless microphone system and powered speakers to echo with the sound clips, is an effective way to re-emphasize them. Through them, the fragmentary sound can effectively show the uncertainty and uncontrollability of the ideological space boundary...

Implementation Plan:

A. Select two real-life events that occurred in China and abroad which are related to each other, divide them into 22 sound clips (Among them, event A consists of 10 segments with Chinese voice; event B consists of 12 segments with English voice), disturb the order, and place them randomly in various positions in the space
B. Cover up the Bluetooth speakers exposed on the wall with large white paper
C. Synchronize the sound generated by the audience entering the space (walking sound and talking sound) into the space using wireless microphone system and powered speakers, and make it echo with the 22 sound clips

Shi Yong
2019-10 / 2019-11
Shanghai, Beijing