ONCE UPON A TIME - OUAT®
在很久很久以前......
Kids created by LiWei
Project created by Black List Gallery LLC
Project curated by Gailord Bovrisse
ONCE UPON A TIME - PROJECT BY LIWEI
在很久很久以前......- 黎薇个人项目
Once upon a time European Tour
2019, 9, Lí Wei
This proposal presents six world well know people in their childhood period. They are around the age of five to six, hanging out together like ordinary children. They are playing with all sorts of super hero toys produced by Hasbro, the renowned American toy brand. They have, for instance, Transformers, Sphero Spider-man, the Marvel Hero series. Girls are playing with Barbie dolls and the “My little pony” series from Hasbro.
These children will show up with their toys on by travelling over school bus in many cities by visiting several important location in different, such as Trafalgar Square in London, Grand Plaza in Brussels and Grote Markt in Antwerp. They will tour in over 11 European countries.
I seized the impressionable period of human life, froze them into one hypothetical shared space in time, & gave them toys. A return to a ‘blank slate’ state: Toys are the initial resources for children to understand the world.
Yes, what’s done is done. Those kids are now the politicians we know. They have already had tremendous impact on the world. Yet I want to imagine a moment back in time when they were still raw potential.
Murphy’s law state’s that “Anything that can go wrong will go wrong if the probability is higher than zero”. In my project, I lowered the probability to zero.
But there is a paradox : that which happens at every moment & everything which happens at that moment.
Hours and timing are uncertain, but ‘an outcome- what happens” is fixed.
The “what happens” can be likened to a ticking time bomb. A time bomb at both psychological and physical levels.
The countdown has been initiated, but the length of the countdown is unknown...
Historical facts and the tantalizing “what if” appear alternately in this project, reflexively interacting with events in this hypothetical window in space & time.
*This is a ART Project, it does not take Politics or Religions position.
We let it to all individual own interpretations
很久很久以前......
2019, 9, 黎薇
这个方案里面包括6个政治人物的儿童时期，他们都处在5-6岁，像普通的儿童一样在一起玩耍，他们的玩具都是美国著名玩具品牌“孩之宝”（ Hasbro）出版的各类超级英雄玩具，例如：变形金刚( Transformers )，蜘蛛侠( Sphero Spider-Man )，漫威( Marvel Hero )系列。女孩子的玩具有“芭比娃娃” ( Barbie )以及Hasbro出品的彩虹小马( My Litter Pony) 系列。
这些孩子们将带着他们的玩具乘坐一辆校车出现在欧洲各个国家的户外广场，伦敦的特拉法加广场，巴黎的巴黎圣母院，意大利米兰：DOMO大教堂 ，罗马竞技场，威尼斯的圣马可广场，比利时的布鲁塞尔大广场以及安特卫普市政厅广场，他们将旅行整个儿欧洲。最后到达欧洲看起来最安全，最特殊的国家，瑞士。
我截取了人类这种生物生命中最有各种可能性的时刻，并在同一时空里把他们定格在一种唯一的可能性里，靠玩具洗脑。在这些孩子还处在空白期的时候，玩具是他们认识世界最初的途径，当然在这个项目里，这种洗脑只是一种假设，因为在我们的新闻里，该发生的已经全部都发生了，这些孩子们都是我们熟知的政治人物，他们都对这个世界产生了巨大的影响，所有对他们各种“盖棺定论”的定义也已经成型，我只是想回到他们还什么都不是的时候。
墨菲定律（ Murphy’s Law ) 指出，任何一个事件，只要具有大于零的几率，就可确定它可以发生。我在这个项目里，将几率降为零，但是就产生了一个并峙的问题：所有的时刻都会发生那件事，所有的事都发生在那时刻。时刻和事情都是不确定的，但“发生”是确定的，所以“发生”在这里成为了一个隐患，一枚定时炸弹，在所有不确定的心理层面，不确定的物理层面安放的这颗炸弹，所有人都知道它是一定会爆炸的，但是不知道是什么时候，尽管它们已经既成事实。
历史事实和未知在这个项目里交替出现，它们互相控制着在这个假设的时空里发生。
*这是一个艺术项目，不代表任何政治立场以及任何宗教信仰，它可以成为每个人自己的诠释。