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The Prometheus in Fallen Street
堕落街的普罗米修斯
2018 Guangzhou, China

53’47’’, 1920 * 1080, stereo sound, color


Fallen Street, a mobile food street that only appears at night, is open all night every day. The next morning, it becomes a mini-dump. The daily overload of sanitation workers with their totally unproductive salaries and the social prejudice against them turn them into one of the most damaged groups, which is incomprehensible from an environmental point of view and from a human rights point of view. So I interviewed the sanitation worker, learned more details, and documented the entire interview and cleanup process through video.

In the whole video, I processed it in two parts. In the first part, I edited the surrounding environment and the record of the fallen street, the interview with the sanitation worker, the excerpt of the poem collection, and the scene of the clay sculpture restoring the poem collection together to form the part of forming the process and its result, and in the second part, I recorded the whole cleaning process of the sanitation worker in real time through the perspective of surveillance. The other work attached to this work is a recitation piece, which is performed in Fallen Street. The recitation is a collection of poems shown in the video.
2018 中国 广州

53’47’’,1920*1080,立体声,彩色 


堕落街,是一条夜间才会出现的流动美食街,每日营业通宵达旦。所到之处的第二天早上,就会成为小型垃圾场。环卫工人每日的超量工作与完全不丰厚的薪水还有社会对他们的偏见,这些都将他们变成最受伤害的一个群体,从环保的角度,从人权的角度,都是不可理喻的。于是我便对这位环卫工人进行了采访,得知了更多的细节,并通过影像记录下了整个采访和清扫的过程。

在整条影像中,我将其分为两部分进行处理,第一部分我将周边环境以及堕落街的纪录,对环卫工人的采访,诗集的节选部分,泥塑还原诗集的场景剪辑到一起,构成了形成过程与其结果的部分,在第二部分我将环卫工人的整个清扫过程通过监控的视角进行实时的记录。 附属于本作品的另一件作品为一件是个朗诵作品,表演地点就在堕落街。朗诵内容为影像中所展现的诗集。

©Liu Shuai 2024