How to perform a hand scroll?
In the past the unrolling of a hand scroll was an intimate experience shared by friends in a private room. While unrolling the scroll, the story painted on the scroll unfolds. I have explored a way of performing my hand scrolls in the performance *CHESS QIZI 棋子*. The young female dancer Wang Yunke and I did this performance at the opening of my exhibition during my residency at the Chinese European Art Centre, CEAC, and ditto at Three Shadows Photography Art Centre in Xiamen (2018). My second and third hand scroll are entitled *Third sister You* and *Qingwen* and are telling about old illusions and tragic stories written down in the classical novel *The Dream of the Red Chamber*. Our performance expresses engagement with actual cases of sexual harassment in China. The hand scroll can be the medium to deepen personal items. Our performance is the opposite of the indifference of a museum guide to his or her public and inversely the indifference of the public to the museum guide.
My first and and second hand scroll also were on display in my solo exhibition *A Blink of Pink* at Witteveen Visual Art Centre (2018) and the second one at the Black Sesame Space in Beijing (2017). The second and third hand scroll are published in my book *About CHESS QIZI 棋子*。