In my hometown, countless rivers have been transformed due to the country’s economic development needs . This kind of transformation often comes at a great cost, but it is rarely mentioned.In this work, the waterfall flow backwards, the human in the water is moving hard to adaption the changing water. "If it is Everlasting" is a nonnarrative video work that has no fixed beginning or ending but in a continuous, ambigious loop. It advocates Laozi’s philosophy of “one of mankind and nature”, a way of adapting to nature rather than tampering it. Rethinking such occurence, I directed the subject to perform the dance in reverse, an act that makes moving in water even more ardous. Hours of footage were shot and edited. In the work, under the established spatiotemporal rules, provisional body language offer a "fake appearance" of defying gravity and natural order, and a reconstruction of the relationship between "a person" and "waterfall". The subject constantly enters and exits the screen in a loop, an attempt to weaken the linearity of time. The sound of dripping water from stalactites seems to be in the invisible dark cave,hinting the "hallucination" of visual; this hallucination is the only way to make the waterfall flow in the opposite direction, an act that is impossible in reality. The video hopes to rethink the interraction between varying degrees of "intervention", "destruction" and "adaptation" to the environments of human activities in the process of urbanization from a “timeless” perspective.
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