No.2 The Dumpling Affair 海不归
Performance Art LA, Santa Monica, USA
*Project was dedicated to LA wildfires during Chinese New Year celebration
Celebrating Chinese New Year in four simultaneous motions:
Motion 1: Frank Fu uses a rolling pin to decompress each participant's stress, tensions and pains around their head, neck, shoulder and back muscles.
Motion 2: Participant takes turns to dig the hole.
Motion 3: Participant enters the negative tent to letting go of what makes them feeling sad, bad, low, negative, stressful by using a Chinese calligraphy brush to write them out on red papers and hanging the writings inside the negative tent and allowing others to read those anonymous writings.
Motion 4: Participant enters the positive tent to express their joy, happiness, things and energies that make them feel positive, excited, exhilarating and alive by using a Chinese calligraphy brush to write them out on red papers and hanging the writings inside the positive tent and allowing others to read those anonymous writings.
Four simultaneous motions circulating one after another for 4 hours until the sunset.