Work 3: "220"
Regarding this series of works, I once tried to explore what meaning is.
To prevent viewers from hastily drawing worrying harmful inferences and反感 towards this series, I only want to remind that the scope of thought involved in the works is not limited by specific perceptual intuition, but possesses an unrestricted field. Only an intuition of what we think, that is, the determination of the categories of thought, is necessary. In the absence of intuition, the contemplation of the works can still have its real and useful consequences in the rational application beyond the theme, but such a determination of the theme and its meaning directed at personal categories of thought cannot and will not interfere with the discourse of the works themselves.
I excitedly wrote many texts about the "readability" and "sensibility" of the works and their meanings. I also tried to find the origin of concepts from traditional Chinese culture and Western grammatical systems. Every time I wrote a few sentences, I felt it was still not enough. Even if I filled hundreds of pages about the meaning of the works, I was still dissatisfied with this statement. So, I stopped talking about what they mean, only writing: "They are here." Yet I still couldn't be completely certain, until I asked someone, and he said: "You must stop right here, it's so wonderful, stop right here and say 'They are here'."
- Release:
- 2019
- Task:
- Art Creation
- Artist:
- Tang Yifei / togihi
Work 3: "220"
The panties themselves are "leveled," and through techniques such as repetition, connection, and reorganization, I strengthened the original patterns, making the entire composition "sharpened." Choosing "leveled" panties as the material factor first considered compositional unity, strengthening symmetry and repetition, eliminating inappropriate details, correcting tilts, and expressing the principle of equality. "Sharpening" is the opposite, intended to create separation, enhance differences, emphasize tilts, and establish the concept of inequality. When this "sharpness" helps eliminate the ambiguity of the raw material, it becomes a tendency towards simplification; but if the raw material is not ambiguous, this tendency towards "sharpness" is no longer a tendency towards simplification, but rather becomes a tendency against simplification. In the experiment, the everyday inherent properties and ambiguous a priori spiritual objects of the tested "lace panties," through the stimulation of such techniques and the interaction between the viewer and the isolated work, infinitely amplified the attribute of "confrontation." Moreover, such stimulation can sometimes lead viewers to think of previously unmanifested properties of commonplace everyday objects. This association can either make the work simpler or more complex. I hope that viewers, by fitting the latest intuitive experiences into the memory traces of previously acquired experiences, can achieve a higher level of thought in the structure of their own memory traces. —— Reshaping Design RIDSMaterial | Mixed Media
This work consists of 220 lace panties. While experimenting with these panties, I obtained a very interesting result.