Form as Emptiness II，2023

performance ritual, ceramic vase, incense, fire, mirror, bone stick, singing bowl, premiered on June 16, 2023, at Aranya Theatre Festival, Migratory Birds Stage, Performers: Chen Zhou, You Guojun, Yin Ze, Musician: Irrelevant Trio

In a circular space on sandy ground, two performers, one male and one female, gaze at a bone in front of them, sitting in silence, waiting. The artist, with one ear painted white, repeatedly throws a large bone stick into the air until it stands vertically in the sand, marking the beginning of the performance ritual. Then, using the sound of the singing bowl, the artist guides the two performers to capture the gaze of the audience into the vases, with the female performer's vase sealed with a mirror. Afterward, the two performers use the vases to create twelve sets of movements, depicting the process of Buddhist dependent origination. Finally, the artist shatters one of the vases with the bone stick, concluding the performance.