China’s Central Academy of Fine Arts graduate Zou Yaqi’s graduation work performance art “Momentary Ownership” has recently become a hot topic on the Internet in China.
The content of the film is that Zou Yaqi pretends to be a celebrity to enjoy luxurious material life, living in Beijing for 21 days without spending money. Zou Yaqi explained that this performance art is to explore “surplus materials”, “then I will pretend to be this kind of material-rich person, mix in it to make everything reasonable and mutually beneficial with these surplus materials, and use them to use them to survive.”
According to Chinese media reports, Zou Yaqi first got an “outfit”, spent several thousand yuan to buy a high imitation brand-name bag, and another 18 yuan to buy a fake diamond ring, and also prepared two necklaces to wear in rotation. “the luster of the pearl is as bright as the reflective strip on the sanitation workers’ overalls”. The report also said that there is an invisible clause to pretend to be a celebrity, that is, the appearance should not be too bad. Zou Yaqi herself is fashionable and beautiful enough. She also painted her make-up with big red lips that don’t look very irritating, and the celebrity image is lifelike.
Zou Yaqi’s film has attracted a lot of discussions. She emphasized that she is not a celebrity, but a “proletariat”, “looks like a celebrity, purely a long time of preparation + superb acting skills”. Zou Yaqi said that this performance art does not want to discuss the disparity between the rich and the poor and the preferential treatment of the rich.
Zou Yaqi said that for a long time, she has been thinking about whether a very small number of people can live comfortably through certain surplus materials generated in this society.
“In my experience, the distribution of this kind of free surplus materials is very interesting. People who seem to be rich in materials”, such as high-end hotel lobbies where you can sleep for free, airports and hotel baths where you can take a shower for free, sneaking into weddings or buffets, first-class lounges, IKEA model rooms, fast-selling brand return and exchange policies, auctions Dim sum wine and so on.
Zou Yaqi said that after successfully “living like a celebrity in Beijing without spending money”, she can’t help but lament that possession and control of these substances is only a moment, but the continuous moment is eternal, because you can also own and control other surplus materials. Theoretically In a short lifetime, one can have a residence in a stable society forever.
“Instant ownership is no different from 70 years of housing property rights or even a dynasty that will fall in the past.” Source