The Value of a Movement draws its inspiration from a word in John Cage’s Silence (1961), in a passage about music and dance. Using this as the textual core, I first transformed the phrase from abstract text into a tangible sculptural object—endowing it with a cheese-colored surface that conveys a tension of being “alluring yet fragile,” turning the words into a tangible, manipulable “fleshly” form.”
The word value itself is deconstructed as an embodiment of the arrogance of power and control. When an external force crushes this “textual flesh, twisting and distorting it, the act of compression serves both as a direct exercise of power and as an ironic commentary on the “value of a movement”—where “value” is reduced to a mere instrument for demonstrating control. s a result, the resin sculpture captures The Value of a Movement in its physical “textual flesh,” immobilized under the oppressive force of arrogant power.
Shi Yong
October 6, 2025
Shanghai
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