这是一个鸡场_This is A Chicken Coop

2016 | Video | 17 minutes | commissioned by The Jumping Frames HK

With the reform at the end of the 1970s in China, a qualitative change in people's perception of home and homeland has occurred due to the acceleration of urbanization, the economic discrepancy between regions, and the migratory patterns of populations influenced by economic environment. It’s similar to chicken that none of them in a farm can escape the influence of modern technology. There is merely a difference in the degree of impact, while all of them are being domesticated and evolved. In this sense, a city is the modern chicken farm! And humans have become the chickens being raised. Imagine that humans return to their “original” state, where traditional rules no longer work. Humans become subordinate and no longer the masters of all being, but dominated by another life form. What kind of world would that be? Have you ever thought about it? When we observe and treat other creatures, they are also observing and treating us.