• Don’t Have a Good Day, Have a Great Day

  • Digital/Live performance (Installation Interaction)

    Iron, zinc screws, acrylic, iron pipe, Arduino development board, iphone, six-axis robotic arm, remote control car, ipad, microphone stand, lamps, etc. , 2024, Dimensions Variable

  • Curated by Jin & C3 & Mandy Wang, Artsect Gallery, London

Don’t Have a Good Day,

Have a Great Day

Live performance (via videoconferencing link) where the artist interacts with the audience, shakes hands, asks about funny events during Christmas and introduces himself through the control of the installation's wheels that move around the gallery and the robotic arm that reaches out.

Throughout the performance art practice, the artist will create an anthropomorphic device, which consists of a remote-controlled wheel and motor, a screen, a rubber dummy hand and other materials, and through the interaction with this device, he will carry out a performance of “Digital Performance” named “Don’t have a good day, have a great day”, from the set-up line of the virtual character Guy in the film Free Guy, before he becomes an independent-minded character. The conditions created by the installation make it possible for this performance to take place, with the audience and the artist in the same space but connected by means of a video phone call.

The lamp inserted behind the artist - derived from the shell of the lamp as one of the materials of the installation that interacts with the viewer - is no longer functional because it has been cut. Just as the artist's presence is not present: although the physical distance between the artist and the interacting audience is no more than ten metres, the artist's presence and absence are cut into two parts.

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