2023
Performance/ Installation

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This performance focuses on monologues and uses the sounds of living objects. By establishing avocados growing in glass jars and describing fragile and shifting ecosystems for urban living and immigration, it explores the state of millennial life, the hostage of consumerism, and the need for spiritual lives for modern people.

https://wip2023.rca.ac.uk/events/visual-communication-how-to-plant-an-avocado-in-your-homehttps://linktr.ee/manifold_space

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Once I saw the avocado seeds set gift box in a Boutique, and there were samples that had grown up next to it. The huge seeds of the avocado caught my attention. But one sold for 50 pounds. So I decided to buy avocados from grocery shops and plant them by myself.

I have never observed the birth of life at such a quiet distance. It only takes a month for it to grow from a dormant and inactive state to a life connected to the outside world. However, I am already worried about their future. When I finish my graduate life next year, they might lose the room to grow.
Without water, they are vulnerable.

I have 7 sprouting plants and one of them has grown very tall, no different from the avocado gift set I saw in the store, or even better. 2 are still germinating in the bathroom, one is in the refrigerator, and the other two have stopped growing. Due to negligent care, they were accidentally exposed to dry air by me during the initial germination stage and then rooted. The tip gradually begins to blacken and stops developing normally. At first, I thought they would be able to come back to life like many plants, but as long as I put them back in the water, the results were not satisfactory.