JINGXUAN FAN
A series of performance works
The Field 2025 performance
The starting point of this work stems from a specific doctrine: under certain conditions, strong emotional energies can accumulate and coalesce in space to form a unique energy field or ambient imprint.
The performance takes place in an abandoned rough house. The five performers engage in five extreme physical actions: laughter, crying, rage, masturbation, and vomiting, until they all reach a state of exhaustion. The performance was an "emotional séance" in which each participant went into a trance at the limits of their bodies, their behavior transcending mere performance or catharsis. They not only injected this intense emotional energy into the space in a theoretical sense, but also on a physical and symbolic level, giving "thickness" to the empty house, which has never really been inhabited.
The core of the work is to inquire into the deep and hidden connection between extreme bodily experiences and specific spaces. These exhaustive emotional and physical performances are not merely closed internal experiences, but are intertwined and interpenetrated processes between the body and the world, the inner and the outer. In this space, which is originally almost empty and full of potentiality, the extreme state of the body acts directly on the environment, infusing it with an invisible corporeality or perceptible density, as if generating an invisible sculpture.
In the end, space is no longer just a passive background for events. It is drenched and permeated by strong physical expression, becoming "thick" and full of tension, transforming into an invisible archive of energy that carries extreme life experiences.
The starting point of this work stems from a specific doctrine: under certain conditions, strong emotional energies can accumulate and coalesce in space to form a unique energy field or ambient imprint.
The performance takes place in an abandoned rough house. The five performers engage in five extreme physical actions: laughter, crying, rage, masturbation, and vomiting, until they all reach a state of exhaustion. The performance was an "emotional séance" in which each participant went into a trance at the limits of their bodies, their behavior transcending mere performance or catharsis. They not only injected this intense emotional energy into the space in a theoretical sense, but also on a physical and symbolic level, giving "thickness" to the empty house, which has never really been inhabited.
The core of the work is to inquire into the deep and hidden connection between extreme bodily experiences and specific spaces. These exhaustive emotional and physical performances are not merely closed internal experiences, but are intertwined and interpenetrated processes between the body and the world, the inner and the outer. In this space, which is originally almost empty and full of potentiality, the extreme state of the body acts directly on the environment, infusing it with an invisible corporeality or perceptible density, as if generating an invisible sculpture.
In the end, space is no longer just a passive background for events. It is drenched and permeated by strong physical expression, becoming "thick" and full of tension, transforming into an invisible archive of energy that carries extreme life experiences.