"Tomorrow" work readme

2013-12-23

“Tomorrow” is based on the clip of the background music, “Let us sway twin oars”, for the movie “Flowers of the motherland” filmed in 1955. The original film “Flowers of the motherland” describes the process that two pupils learn the collectivism under the education and help of teachers and Young Pioneer. “Tomorrow” forms a juxtaposition relationship between space and ideology via lengthening the time of the original video and adjusted exchange of sky and surface. Accordingly, it leads to two possibilities. One is that reality ingresses history;the other is that history ingresses reality. Historically, phrases such as “under the cultivation”, “development” and “collectivism” always mean special ideology then and influence a few generations of Chinese. However, now is a period that “individualism”,”globalisation” and “new economic system” exist at then same time, the alternations of the society and individual conception cannot be a flashback. The purpose of this artwork to tie these two changes together purposely, forming a twisty and complex relationship, is that it reveals a doubt about whether education changes ideology or the reality alternates the educational system which therefore influences ideology. This doubt makes the public to rethink and figure out the nature of “countermeasure” and “policy”. So as utilising numeral-techo to mix the reality and dreamland, “Tomorrow” also explores the reality and unreal world, truth and untruth, verity and lie, which exist in the real world and will never vanish in the future.
Artwork Proposal: 
1. Inspired from the clip of the background music, “Let us sway twin oars”, for the movie “Flowers of the motherland” filmed in 1955
Lengthen original video time and alter the music partly
Utilising numeral-techo to exchange the surface and sky
Apply the holographic images to form virtual images