I Say I Have a Problem and You Shoot Me Performance, Shanghai, China, 2017
I placed a number of black, water-filled balloons on the floor of an inflatable room. From inside the inflatable pillar in the middle of the space, I slowly crawled towards the door on my hands and feet. Meanwhile, I invited the audience scattered around the room to pick up the water balloons on the floor and shoot them at me when I said "I have a problem". Each time I was hit by a water balloon, my constantly moving body would shut down and freeze in a crackling waterfall for a period of time until the excited crowd around me stopped making noise. As I kept repeating the phrase as I moved, people kept throwing water balloons at me to shut me up and stop me, leaving my moving body in various absurd silences in complicated relations with the audience around me.
“I have a problem. I have a problem. I have a problem but I am banned to solve it. I am banned to talk about it. I am banned to think about it. I am scared I would be deleted from the documents because I have the problem. I am scared I would be expelled from the city because I have the problem. I have the problem you don’t have. I can’t do anything but you can. You can shoot me you can beat me you can solve me.”
