PAIN

Performance Art
20 minutes
Tian Xu
2020

This performance art is an attempt to reflect on the grief that CONVID-19 has brought to people around the world and to question the endurance of public memory. Tian collected and photographed the news of CONVID-19 and then extracted the toxic substance Sym-Diphenylcarbazide （C13H14N4O） from the news and sealed the toxic substance into an ice arrow. By taking very extreme action on the human body with the toxic ice arrow, the artist want to ask whether that certain forms of oppression keep memories for ever.